Overview
With powerful storage provisioning and data protection, NetApp® storage solutions from Network Appliances complement the manageability, utilization, and cost-saving benefits of VMware virtualization software. Unified storage solutions from NetApp enable powerful thin provisioning, simplified data protection and scalable and consistent I/O performance for all SAN and NAS protocols. Some of the key features of the NetApp storage virtualization solution include:
- NetApp FlexVol™ technology enables IT organizations to create multiple flexible volumes on a large pool of disks and aggregate I/O across all physical disks on NFS, iSCSI or Fibre Channel. Users can dynamically allocate storage and add storage capacity as needed without downtime.
- NetApp FlexClone® provides instant clones of VMs without impacting server resources and requiring additional storage capacity.
- NetApp Snapshot™ allows VMware users to make fast and space-efficient backup copies of active data with negligible performance and storage overhead.
- NetApp SnapMirror® Software protects data and accelerates recovery, by providing a simple, efficient way to replicate data between systems in multiple locations using multi-transport (IP and FC) and frequency choice (sync, semi-sync, and async) options while only transferring changed blocks.
Network Appliance storage systems offer powerful yet flexible provisioning capabilities that give IT storage specialists the ability to lower cost while meeting the capacity, utilization, and performance requirements of VMware environments.
Storage Success Spotlight
Hear how customers are using VMware® Infrastructure 3 software and NetApp storage to better leverage existing resources while making their business more responsive to gain competitive advantage
Virginia Credit Union - Netapp Success Story
"Running VMware on NetApp helps us deliver the best value and service to credit union members. Previously it took one week and $15,000 to deploy a server. Now we can deliver multiple, space-efficient virtual servers in 20 minutes—that gives us tremendous business agility."
Snapshot (pdf)Bowdoin College
Using VMware Infrastructure 3, Bowdoin College has partnered with Loyola Marymount University on the West Coast to build a co-located data center, boasting cross-country disaster recovery.
“If you are using VMware technology in production, you are two-thirds of the way to a robust disaster recovery plan before you even begin to design it. You get portable servers with flexible hardware requirements and ease of management. The new capabilities in VMware Infrastructure 3 of Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and High Availability (HA), for instance, let you take advantage of resource pools and dynamically move virtual machines as needs change. Bowdoin has a VMware-first policy for any new system—not only because of the disaster recovery benefits of VMware virtualization, but also because of the other cost savings and efficiencies that VMware software enables.”
Marine Corps Enterprise Network
VMware Enlisted to Serve Marine Corps Enterprise Networking Requirements
"The MCNOSC needed an affordable and easy-to-manage alternate site with real-time data transfer that would be reliable in the event of a catastrophe. The VMware virtual infrastructure so effectively met these requirements that it is being leveraged for regional server farm and deployed operations implementation "
T-Systems Global
T-Systems Brings True Utility Computing to the Enterprise with the Help of VMware Technology
“We wanted a hardware-independent, software-independent, utility computing platform such that any enterprise could come to us with pretty much any application, and we could host it. We needed to make sure we could virtualize environments on any hardware, and with any operating system. . . . VMware offered the only solution that met those criteria.”
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VMware on Netapp.com
A server-to-storage virtualized infrastructure is an efficient and cost-effective way to manage your data center. NetApp virtualized storage solutions, used in conjunction with VMware, simplify data protection and expand the benefits of your virtualized applications—from improved flexibility and reduced provisioning times, to increased resource utilization and performance.