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.
Whitepapers & Solution Briefs
- Need a Reason to Deploy VMware on NetApp? How about 10.
This paper communicates the top 10 benefits to deploying VMware software on your NetApp storage hardware. - Better Business Continuity with VMware Virtual Infrastructure and NetApp
This paper discusses the importance of business continuity, the ability to provide high availability and disaster recovery for key applications and the constraints and challenges such as high costs, flaures to meet recovery time and availability goals, and overly complex and unreliable solutions. - TR-3606: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for VMware Using NetApp SnapMirror and MetroCluster
This document discusses disaster recovery in terms of levels of data protection for a VMware environment that uses NetApp for its primary storage. These levels of protection are based on customer needs and can be considered independently. - TR-3610: Disk-to-Disk Backup in a NetApp/VMware Environment
This document describes how NetApp products increase the storage availability of a VMware ESX environment by providing disk-to-disk backup with SnapVault®. It outlines a plan for the setup, configuration, and functional testing of a disk-to-disk backup environment. Specific equipment, software, and functional tests are included along with results.<//font>
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.