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Innovation Center- Proof of Concept, Proof of Technology, Dynamic Demo Interview Form
1. Please list identifying information for the parties requesting this POC
Need < Client info, Lenovo info, Partner info>
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a. CTS Name & account team owners (if appropriate)
b. Customer’s Company
c. Name of Customer(s) working on the POC
d. Customer contact info
e. SalesForce Opportunity number, value & decision date
f. SalesForce Solution area
g. Local or remote access
h. Hardware requested (provide BOM of available)
i. Length of use of PoT engagement
j. Timelines for implementation
k. Output (Implementation Guide, Config, Spec Sheet, Client Ref) for Library
Please provide the following:
a. Test plan including timelines, ownership of activities and methods of measurement
b. Solution design document (i.e. Visio of proposed solution)
c. Success criteria <e.g.: Config, Functional, Performance, Scale, Pricing>
What is the primary purpose of this POC? Examples include:
a. Gaining familiarity with Lenovo HW / SW interfaces prior to purchase
b. Validation of customer installation processes / images
c. Performance testing proposed solution prior to purchase
d. Benchmarking system and / or specific HW options
e. Solution comparison against other OEM
f. Pre-SPORE HW validation test
What network requirements does this POC have? Examples include:
a. Number and type of network ports (1Gb,10Gb, 25Gb & / or 40GbE) required
b. How many and what type of dedicated VLAN(s) / switches required?
c. Specific network functionality (e.g. multicast, VLAG, unified fabric)
d. Port forwarded POC interfaces through firewall?
e. Custom IP / DHCP range?
f. What are the external network bandwidth requirements? NOTE: The DSEL POC network
connectivity is for remote access and transfer of small (<2GB) files to / from the lab.
Production workloads and remote replication to customer / cloud providers is not
supported over DSEL links.
Storage design
a. Will this system use shared or local attached storage?
b. What protocol will be used to connect to the storage (if non-local)? FC or iSCSI
c. What protocol connection speed is required (e.g. 8Gb FC, 16Gb FC, 10Gb iSCSI, 12Gb
SAS, etc.)
d. What are the IOPs requirements for the storage?
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e. Is the test evaluating the storage performance itself or can DSEL implement storage as
required to meet POC success criteria? NOTE: This may involve use of flash storage tiers,
storage virtualization providers and storage accelerator products.
f. What is usable storage capacity required for the solution?
i. Is this a per node or shared storage statement?
ii. What size drives are required to host the OS? Swap? Application Binaries? Data?
g. What are the availability requirements of the storage? (eg – RAID Levels, redundancy
factor, etc)
h. Are any advanced storage features required? (e.g. - tiering, data migration, deduplication, compression, replication)
6. Solution design information
a. What are the minimum number of systems required to successfully execute this
solution?
b. How critical is exactly matching the solution BOM to the execution and success of this
POC?
c. What applications will be tested?
i. Who will provide the applications for installation?
ii. Who will provide the expertise on the applications in question?
1. If ISV, please provide ISV contacts to they may be added to the access
lists.
d. How large is the dataset for this POC?
i. Can this dataset be sent on USB key / USB HDD if greater then DSEL network
limits allow?
e. Is there any confidential information in this dataset? NOTE: Lenovo DSEL is not liable for
any confidential information supplied by customers. For those POCs requiring the use of
confidential information, DSE team defers to onsite POC.
f. Are any remote clients required to generate workload?
i. Are these remote client systems included in the POC hardware request?
ii. Do these remote clients have to be physical systems?
iii. What connectivity to the test systems is required?
7. Test harness information
a. Does the POC require any test tools? Examples include:
i. Synthetic load generators
ii. Standard benchmark suites
iii. Applications for monitoring latency, responsiveness, etc.
b. If test tools are required, who will provide:
i. Test tools
ii. Expertise on test tools
c. Does the POC require injecting errors into the system or causing hardware errors in
order to measure system resiliency or alerting? NOTE: The lab will not perform any
activities on its HW which may cause damage to its systems.
d. How will outputs from test harness be measured / captured?
i. automated v manually captured
e. Does the test harness require external network connectivity?
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i. What type of bandwidth is required if yes?
ii. Is the external connectivity part of the measurement criteria or simply to load
data?
f. Are there any additional systems required to generate test load?
i. How many?
ii. What are their specific requirements?
iii. Can these load generation systems be virtual machines?
iv. Will these load generators require external network access?
8. Success Criteria
a. What baselines are this POC being compared against?
b. What difference delta is/are required to consider the test successful?
i. Are these subjective or objective?
ii. Please list the success criteria. Success criteria fall intro a few broad categories.
Such categories include:
1. Usability – please provide concrete list of items being rated and rating
methodology (i.e. – binary success / failure or scaling factor from 1-5)
2. Performance – please provide baseline values and values indicating
success. Validate that measurement and judgment are using same
values (e.g. – measuring bandwidth in Gbps not IOPs). Common
performance measurement criteria include GB/s, Gb/s, IOPs, MHz,
Transactions / sec (tps), latency in ms and runtime.
3. Scalability / Capacity – please provide scaling factor being measured (eg
# of VM/ core, total # of VMs / system, etc)
4. Functionality – please provide list of features being evaluated
c. Does the test measurement accurately capture the data required for measuring
success?
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