Deploy VMWARE on Netapp

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

1. Increase overall productivity. The combination of VMware and NetApp offers significant advantages for companies that are consolidating servers and storage by reducing costs, maximizing storage utilization, and increasing operational efficiency.
2. Flexibility. NetApp solutions give you the ultimate in flexibility by enabling you to choose iSCSI, FCP, or NFS connectivity within a single storage platform. NetApp systems can also mix drive types within a single system so that you can tier your virtual machines (VMs) within a single architecture, giving users flexibility and investment protection.
3. Streamline storage allocation to virtual machines. With NetApp, VMware administrators can supply storage to virtual machines in seconds while achieving the highest level of storage utilization.

ASSET UTILIZATION

4. Efficient cloning of VMs. Using the NetApp FlexClone® tool, you can instantly create VMs from your gold disks without consuming any additional physical storage. These clones can be used for production and test and development environments.
5. V-Series virtualization solution. The NetApp V-Series products enable you to consolidate your heterogeneous arrays into a unified environment, so that you can take advantage of all the NetApp data management tools across your environment.
6. Thin provisioning. Network Appliance^TM storage systems offer powerful, flexible provisioning capabilities that give IT storage specialists the ability to lower cost while meeting capacity, utilization, and performance requirements.

HIGH AVAILABILITY

7. Instantaneous backups. With NetApp Snapshot^TM, VMware users can make instantaneous, consistent backup copies of active data with negligible performance and storage overhead.
8. Raid-DP^TM. RAID-DP offers significantly more protection than single parity schemes (including RAID 5 and NetApp RAID 4), with zero to minimal cost and performance impact. Compared to RAID 1 (mirroring), RAID-DP offers equivalent data protection against double disk failure at a fraction ofthe cost of mirroring. Compared to RAID 6, RAID-DP offers better performance and ease of use.
9. Disaster recovery. Protect data and speed recovery using SnapMirror®. Snap- Mirror provides a simple, efficient way to replicate data between systems in multiple locations using multitransport (IP and FC) and frequency choice (sync, semi-sync, and async) options while transferring only changed blocks. In the event of a disaster, a remote site can use the SnapMirror copy of the data to restart critical virtual servers with minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
10. Enterprise services to see you through. With the expertise to help you when you need it, NetApp delivers global, enterprise-grade services and support to free up your internal resources, minimize disruptions, maximize uptime, and help ensure your long-term success.

ABOUT NETWORK APPLIANCE

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