Why NetApp Storage Solutions for Data Center Virtualization
Top Reasons
Why NetApp Storage Solutions for Data Center Virtualization Confidently and securely virtualize your data center and business-critical applications with an agile data infrastructure that delivers industry-leading efficiencies, unprecedented scalability, continuous data access, and intelligent data management.
1. Agile Data Infrastructure Virtualize your data center and business-critical applications with confidence. The agile NetApp® data infrastructure offers an unparalleled combination of industry-leading efficiencies; massive scalability; nondisruptive data access; and intelligent, automated data management. Provision and scale VMs and applications on demand, nondisruptively, with our virtual pool of dynamic resources and respond immediately to business changes and opportunities. 2. Unlimited Scalability Discover a new way to resource IT and address explosive data growth driven by the digital era and its new wave of machine-generated data sources. We offer unlimited seamless scalability of capacity, performance, and operations. Leverage our scalable dynamic storage infrastructure to meet the rapid expansion of data, users, mailboxes, sites, and services without disruption.
3. Unprecedented Storage Efficiencies Get storage efficiencies that fully complement virtualization technologies without affecting performance. Slash your storage requirements by 50% or more with built-in deduplication, thin provisioning, thin replication, and a unified architecture that supports all storage and network protocols and various disk and data types in a single system. You can also back up and clone VMs instantly, using almost zero disk capacity.
4. Nondisruptive Operations and Data Mobility Achieve an “always on” environment for virtualized applications and eliminate all planned downtime with innovative NetApp clustering and replication technologies. Transparently move applications and data between storage systems to perform hardware upgrades, software updates, maintenance, load balancing, and technology refreshes without disruption. Real-time data and application mobility enables you to maintain existing policies as you move storage for greater agility, efficiency, performance, and ROI. 5. Intelligent Data Management Realize extreme agility through policybased data automation, management, efficiency, and protection. NetApp integration with virtualization solutions enables your VI administrators to fully manage storage and server resources from a single console while leveraging existing policies. Automate practically all frequently recurring storage and data management activities, including VM backups, provisioning, cloning, resizing, failover, replication, and alerting. Our integrated, automated storage management also extends to popular applications including Exchange, SQL Server®, SharePoint®, Oracle®, and SAP®. 6. Faster Response to Changing Business Needs Improve quality of service and IT responsiveness with NetApp’s combination of service analytics and rapid provisioning capabilities. Gain insight from applications to volumes to pinpoint capacity issues and performance bottlenecks from a single console that integrates with virtualization and orchestration solutions. Leverage real-time analysis to instantly clone, provision, or move VMs for rapid response
to business requirements. Accelerated development and test cycles also enable you to deploy new applications up to 97% faster than traditional methods and realize significantly faster time to market.
demand without compromising security or performance. Our collaboration with Cisco and VMware also delivers the industry’s only end-to-end secure multi-tenancy (SMT) solution.
7. Unmatched Price Performance Cost-effectively remove the performance roadblocks that keep many organizations from virtualizing tier 1 applications. You can improve I/O performance by up to 50% without additional storage tiers using NetApp Flash Cache, a deduplicationaware cache acceleration card. Flash Pool technology lets you manage multiple storage tiers such as SSD and HDD within the same aggregate. It also intelligently moves data volumes to the appropriate tier so you can maintain optimal performance for I/O-intensive applications such as databases, enterprise messaging, and virtual desktop environments.
10. Simplified Application Lifecycle Support and manage multiple, disparate storage environments for a given application as a single unit. NetApp’s unique clustering technology lets you migrate data volumes nondisruptively from physical to virtual environments or move them along each stage in your application lifecycle, including QA, staging, production, data warehousing, and education/learning environments. Our unified storage further simplifies operations by enabling you to use the same tools and processes at each stage.
8. Integrated Data Protection Enable nondisruptive data access and continuous operations with a highly integrated approach that addresses the broad spectrum of data protection challenges. NetApp’s advanced capabilities coordinate with each other and with virtualization solutions to simplify and automate backups for businesscritical applications; deliver local, regional, or global multisite high availability and disaster recovery capabilities; and help ensure data consistency across your entire virtualized infrastructure. 9. Shared Virtual Infrastructure Securely support multiple tenants (applications, business units, or customers) on our shared storage while maintaining data isolation, security, and SLAs for each workload. You can partition NetApp’s agile data infrastructure into virtual arrays that can be resized on
11. Optimized Technology Investment Reach your ideal virtualized destination faster and reliably with service and support offerings tailored for your specific environment. NetApp Services for Virtualization span all stages of your solution lifecycle, including assessment, consulting, deployment, and on-site managed services. NetApp’s storage and virtualization solution expertise enables you to reduce TCO and risk and get the most out of your virtualization technology investment. About NetApp NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com. Go further, faster
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Why NetApp Storage Solutions for Data Center Virtualization Confidently and securely virtualize your data center and business-critical applications with an agile data infrastructure that delivers industry-leading efficiencies, unprecedented scalability, continuous data access, and intelligent data management.
1. Agile Data Infrastructure Virtualize your data center and business-critical applications with confidence. The agile NetApp® data infrastructure offers an unparalleled combination of industry-leading efficiencies; massive scalability; nondisruptive data access; and intelligent, automated data management. Provision and scale VMs and applications on demand, nondisruptively, with our virtual pool of dynamic resources and respond immediately to business changes and opportunities. 2. Unlimited Scalability Discover a new way to resource IT and address explosive data growth driven by the digital era and its new wave of machine-generated data sources. We offer unlimited seamless scalability of capacity, performance, and operations. Leverage our scalable dynamic storage infrastructure to meet the rapid expansion of data, users, mailboxes, sites, and services without disruption.
3. Unprecedented Storage Efficiencies Get storage efficiencies that fully complement virtualization technologies without affecting performance. Slash your storage requirements by 50% or more with built-in deduplication, thin provisioning, thin replication, and a unified architecture that supports all storage and network protocols and various disk and data types in a single system. You can also back up and clone VMs instantly, using almost zero disk capacity.
4. Nondisruptive Operations and Data Mobility Achieve an “always on” environment for virtualized applications and eliminate all planned downtime with innovative NetApp clustering and replication technologies. Transparently move applications and data between storage systems to perform hardware upgrades, software updates, maintenance, load balancing, and technology refreshes without disruption. Real-time data and application mobility enables you to maintain existing policies as you move storage for greater agility, efficiency, performance, and ROI. 5. Intelligent Data Management Realize extreme agility through policybased data automation, management, efficiency, and protection. NetApp integration with virtualization solutions enables your VI administrators to fully manage storage and server resources from a single console while leveraging existing policies. Automate practically all frequently recurring storage and data management activities, including VM backups, provisioning, cloning, resizing, failover, replication, and alerting. Our integrated, automated storage management also extends to popular applications including Exchange, SQL Server®, SharePoint®, Oracle®, and SAP®. 6. Faster Response to Changing Business Needs Improve quality of service and IT responsiveness with NetApp’s combination of service analytics and rapid provisioning capabilities. Gain insight from applications to volumes to pinpoint capacity issues and performance bottlenecks from a single console that integrates with virtualization and orchestration solutions. Leverage real-time analysis to instantly clone, provision, or move VMs for rapid response
to business requirements. Accelerated development and test cycles also enable you to deploy new applications up to 97% faster than traditional methods and realize significantly faster time to market.
demand without compromising security or performance. Our collaboration with Cisco and VMware also delivers the industry’s only end-to-end secure multi-tenancy (SMT) solution.
7. Unmatched Price Performance Cost-effectively remove the performance roadblocks that keep many organizations from virtualizing tier 1 applications. You can improve I/O performance by up to 50% without additional storage tiers using NetApp Flash Cache, a deduplicationaware cache acceleration card. Flash Pool technology lets you manage multiple storage tiers such as SSD and HDD within the same aggregate. It also intelligently moves data volumes to the appropriate tier so you can maintain optimal performance for I/O-intensive applications such as databases, enterprise messaging, and virtual desktop environments.
10. Simplified Application Lifecycle Support and manage multiple, disparate storage environments for a given application as a single unit. NetApp’s unique clustering technology lets you migrate data volumes nondisruptively from physical to virtual environments or move them along each stage in your application lifecycle, including QA, staging, production, data warehousing, and education/learning environments. Our unified storage further simplifies operations by enabling you to use the same tools and processes at each stage.
8. Integrated Data Protection Enable nondisruptive data access and continuous operations with a highly integrated approach that addresses the broad spectrum of data protection challenges. NetApp’s advanced capabilities coordinate with each other and with virtualization solutions to simplify and automate backups for businesscritical applications; deliver local, regional, or global multisite high availability and disaster recovery capabilities; and help ensure data consistency across your entire virtualized infrastructure. 9. Shared Virtual Infrastructure Securely support multiple tenants (applications, business units, or customers) on our shared storage while maintaining data isolation, security, and SLAs for each workload. You can partition NetApp’s agile data infrastructure into virtual arrays that can be resized on
11. Optimized Technology Investment Reach your ideal virtualized destination faster and reliably with service and support offerings tailored for your specific environment. NetApp Services for Virtualization span all stages of your solution lifecycle, including assessment, consulting, deployment, and on-site managed services. NetApp’s storage and virtualization solution expertise enables you to reduce TCO and risk and get the most out of your virtualization technology investment. About NetApp NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com. Go further, faster
®
© 2012 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. No portions of this document may be reproduced without prior written consent of NetApp, Inc. Specifications are subject to change without notice. NetApp, the NetApp logo, and Go further, faster are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. SharePoint and SQL Server are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. SAP is a registered trademark of SAP AG. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. DS-3331-0512
www.netapp.com
