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The Challenge infrastructure at scale by automating KEY BENEFITS Businesses today struggle with the important processes and increasing Nondisruptive Operations increasing amount of data that they need productivity. You can add capacity as • Perform storage maintenance, to store, manage, and back up. Growing you grow across both SAN and NAS hardware lifecycle operations, competitive pressure and 24-hour busi- environments—without reconfiguring and software upgrades without ness cycles require that your mission- running applications. We let you start interrupting your business critical business processes and data small and grow big without the disruptive • Eliminate planned and remain accessible around the clock. hardware upgrades required by other unplanned downtime for storage vendors. With your business environment in a continuous business availability constant state of evolution, you need Clustered Data ONTAP provides up to Proven Efficiency a more agile approach to storage that 24 storage controllers—or nodes— • Drive storage cost reductions can eliminate downtime, improve the managed as a single logical pool so with comprehensive storage efficiency of your infrastructure and your operations scale more easily. your IT staff, scale nondisruptively as efficiency NetApp supports the broadest set of your business grows, and quickly adapt • Consolidate and share the storage protocols and is the only to changing business requirements. same infrastructure for provider to deliver both SAN and NAS workloads or tenants with The Solution data access from a single, unified different performance, ® scale-out platform. capacity, and security Clustered Data ONTAP addresses the requirements challenges facing your growing and Prevent Business Disruptions dynamic business by extending the • Grow efficiency as scale With IT now integral to your business innovation of NetApp Data ONTAP, the increases operations, the impact of downtime world’s number one branded storage goes beyond dollars or productivity Seamless Scalability operating system1. Our unified cluster lost. Your company’s reputation might • Scale capacity, performance, architecture scales and adapts to your be at stake. Clustered Data ONTAP and operations without changing needs, reducing risk and cost. eliminates sources of downtime and compromise Clustered Data ONTAP is designed to protects your critical data against • Scale SAN and NAS from eliminate downtime, allowing you to ser- disaster. terabytes to tens of petabytes vice your infrastructure without disrupting without reconfiguring running access to user data and applications— Nondisruptive operations applications even during regular business hours. Our nondisruptive operations capabili- • Combine different generations ties allow you to perform critical tasks Proven operational efficiency helps of storage hardware for without interrupting your business. The you simplify your overall storage seamless expansion ability to dynamically assign, promote, environment and manage storage and retire storage resources lets you

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Figure 1) With native multi-tenancy, clustered Data ONTAP appears to each application or tenant as a separate, secure storage system. QoS policies control consumption of cluster performance resources.

improve service levels over the lifecycle instant backup and recovery, replication technologies, resulting in hybrid storage of an application. Storage controllers for disaster recovery, and best-in-class that combines the performance of flash can be replaced without disruption and integration with enterprise backup with the capacity of hard disk drives. without moving data. vendors and leading applications. Hot data is automatically cached in IDP extends to include integrated and flash, accelerating applications. You When data movement is required to unified disk-to-disk backup and DR achieve optimal performance with achieve management objectives, you in a single process for VMware® and little or no tuning, no time-consuming can nondisruptively move data between Microsoft virtualization. data migrations, and no ongoing controllers—for­­ instance, as an applica- management. tion transitions from development to Manage Infrastructure at Scale production. with Proven Efficiency Manage data at scale Clustered Data ONTAP gives you the Clustered Data ONTAP management Because you can mix generations of capabilities and tools you need to make processes scale so that twice as much hardware, you can add new storage both your storage and your IT staff storage no longer means twice as much systems and retire older ones without more productive, so you can scale your work. affecting operations. All storage storage infrastructure without scaling maintenance operations and software All storage systems running clustered your IT organization. A common set of upgrades can be performed without Data ONTAP use a common set of man- features and procedures simplifies interrupting your business. agement tools. NetApp OnCommand® complex tasks so your IT staff can software allows you to automate, Eliminating unplanned downtime focus on solving higher level problems. virtualize, and manage service delivery NetApp uses big data analytics to Superior storage efficiency and SLAs through policy-based provi- identify patterns in billions of rows of Clustered Data ONTAP drives pervasive sioning and protection. You can rapidly log data gathered from thousands of cost reductions with the most compre- deploy resources and redeploy as your deployed NetApp systems. Continu- hensive storage efficiency offering in business and IT needs change, while ously updated risk signatures allow the industry, including innovative you reduce backup windows and you to identify issues and perform Snapshot™ copies, replication and infrastructure requirements. maintenance when it’s needed—rather cloning technologies, thin provisioning, than waiting weeks or months for a Maximize Shared Storage compression, and deduplication. downtime window. This improves Investments NetApp is the only storage provider to storage availability and reduces the deliver proven efficiencies for both SAN Clustered Data ONTAP lets you save number of priority 1 support cases by and NAS on entry-level, midtier, enter- time and money by consolidating and up to 80%.2 prise, software-based, and virtualized sharing the same infrastructure for Integrated data protection third-party arrays. workloads or tenants that have different performance, capacity, and security To protect your operations, clustered Optimized for flash requirements. Data ONTAP provides integrated data Clustered Data ONTAP supports the full protection (IDP) technologies with near- range of NetApp Virtual Storage Tier

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Data compression Transparent inline and postprocess data Reduces the amount of storage you need to compression for data reduction purchase and maintain

DataMotion™ Nondisruptive data mobility for volumes Allows you to move data nondisruptively while your applications keep running

Deduplication General-purpose deduplication for removal Reduces the amount of storage you need to of redundant data objects purchase and maintain

Flash Pool™ Creates a mixed-media storage pool using Increases the performance and efficiency of HDD SSD and HDD pools with flash acceleration, especially for random workloads

FlexCache® Scale-out caching of NFS and CIFS/SMB files Improves your system’s read performance and for increased read bandwidth response times

FlexClone® Instantaneously creates file, LUN, and volume Saves you time in testing and development and clones without requiring additional storage increases your storage capacity

FlexVol® Creates flexibly sized volumes across a large Enables your storage systems to be used at pool of disks and one or more RAID groups maximum efficiency and reduces your hardware investment

Infinite Volume Creates a volume that can scale up to 20PB Provides a large container for content repositories. with one file system A single cluster can contain multiple Infinite Volumes.

QoS Quality of service that creates a performance Can prevent one workload or tenant from affecting limit for a storage workload the performance of another in multiworkload and multi-tenant environments

RAID-DP® A double-parity RAID 6 implementation that Protects your data without the performance impact prevents data loss when two drives fail; Default of other RAID 6 implementations RAID option

SnapDrive® Provides host-based data management of NetApp Automate OS-consistent backup, restore, cloning, storage from Windows®, UNIX®, and ® servers and other operations, taking full advantage of NetApp capabilities

SnapManager® Provides host-based data management of NetApp Application-aware backup and disaster recovery; storage for databases and business applications automates error-free data restores

SnapMirror® Enables automatic, incremental asynchronous Provides you with flexibility and efficiency when data replication between systems mirroring for data distribution and disaster recovery

SnapRestore® Rapidly restores single files, directories, or entire Instantaneously recovers files, databases, and LUNs and volumes from any Snapshot copy backup complete volumes from your backup

Snapshot Makes incremental data-in-place, point-in- Enables you to create frequent space-efficient time copies of a LUN or volume with minimal backups with no disruption to data traffic performance impact

SnapVault® Exports space-efficient Snapshot copies, preserving Provides you with cost-effective, long-term backups compression and deduplication savings to another of disk-based data NetApp system, providing an incremental backup solution

Table 1) Clustered Data ONTAP offers a robust set of standard and optional features Clustered Data ONTAP “lets us move data—for load balancing, for moving less-used or inactive data to lower cost drives, or for technology updates— without having to stop the application… It used to take 28 days to restore a 100TB Oracle® DB—now it takes 15 minutes.” CERN

Multi-tenancy from terabytes to tens of petabytes content repositories within a cluster, A storage cluster can be subdivided transparently and without reconfiguring but you also have the ability to isolate into secure partitions governed by running applications. You can start with workloads and offer different levels of rights and permissions. These Storage a single cluster node and seamlessly service using different controller tech- Virtual Machines (SVMs) can be used expand your cluster up to 24 nodes as nologies, storage tiers, and QoS policies. to securely isolate individual tenants— your business needs grow. In addition, you can span multiple con- trollers for nearly limitless scalability. for instance, in a service provider Adapt environment—or individual applica- Rebalance capacity and workloads as Maximum Investment Protection tions, workgroups, business units, needed. You can improve service levels and so on. Because SVMs aren’t tied to You can mix storage controllers from by dynamically redeploying workloads particular physical resources, you can various NetApp FAS product lines and and avoid hot spots by moving volumes move a SVM or adjust the resources virtualize third-party arrays with NetApp to less active disk aggregates or available to it without disruption. V-Series. Because you can mix different spreading workloads across multiple generations of hardware in the same Quality of service controllers. Each dataset gets the right cluster, you can grow your cluster with Clustered Data ONTAP offers QoS technology to meet your performance the latest hardware and keep older workload management that allows you and cost targets. hardware longer. When it’s time to retire to control the resources that can be Scale up and scale out a storage system, you can simply consumed by each workload to manage upgrade the controllers—keeping data Scale up individual storage controllers performance spikes and improve cus- in place. by adding high-capacity hard disk tomer satisfaction. You can consolidate drives (HDDs), high-performance hard many workloads or tenants on a cluster disk drives, or high-performance without fear that the most important About NetApp SSDs­—or scale out by adding addi- workloads will suffer or that activity in NetApp creates innovative storage tional storage controllers to a cluster. one tenant partition will affect another. and data management solutions that Most scale-out storage solutions pro- deliver outstanding cost efficiency and Stay Ahead of Business Changes vide a single large repository. Clustered accelerate business breakthroughs. with Seamless Scalability Data ONTAP takes a different approach Discover our passion for helping Start small, grow big that gives you more flexibility and greater companies around the world go Storage systems running clustered control. NetApp Infinite Volume lets you further, faster at www..com. Data ONTAP can scale SAN and NAS create large, flexible, and easy-to-manage Go further, faster ®

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