Overview
With powerful storage provisioning and data protection, NetApp® storage solutions from NetApp 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.
NetApp 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 Solution Resources
- Webcasts
- VMworld Webinar Replay:
Server Consolidation & BC with ESX and Netapp SnapMirror - NetApp Webcasts:
NetApp and VMware -- Driving Lower TCO for Virtualized Environments
NetApp Solutions for VMware® Optimize Your Business Applications with a Server-to-Storage Virtualized Infrastructure (requires registration)
StoreVault Webcast for SMB / SME market (VDI use case at end of preso)
Webcast on demand: Driving Lower TCO for Virtualized Environments
Driving Lower TCO for Virtualized Environments(Presentation slides)
Driving Lower TCO for Virtualized Environments (transcript)
Effective Business Application Management: Best Practices from Industry Experts
- News and Events
- Press ReleasesOliver Wyman October 2007 ROI report
Server Consolidation & BC with ESX and NEtapp SnapMirror
VMware Unveils Storage Virtualization Certification Program
VMware Introduces Next-Generation Disaster Recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager
VMware Introduces Significant New Virtualization Products and Advances
- VMworld Sessions
These sessions all require registration: - NetApp-Simply Addressing the DR Needs of Virtual Infrastructures
- VMware-Architecting Disaster Recovery
- VMware-Tips and Tricks – DR in a Box
- VMware-New Trends in DR from VMware
- Panel-Implementation of BC and DR
- Register now
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.
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