Datasheet Data ONTAP 8 Always-on availability, on-demand flexibility, and operational efficiency with seamless scalability

The Challenge downtime, even during servicing and KEY BENEFITS As today’s IT workloads make the upgrades. transition to increasingly virtualized and Run Your Business 365/24/7 Scale Outside the Box • Protect against hardware service-oriented applications, you may NetApp FAS and V-Series storage failure, including double disk see your cost structure shifting from a solutions can scale from a few failures. capex-centric model to a more opex- terabytes to several petabytes, all • Meet high-availability centric approach. This shift in cost using a single storage platform. By requirements from local structure is motivated by a requirement simply adding disk shelves supporting hardware to site failover to manage an environment of growth SAS, SATA, or high-performance SSD • Make outages during system and change. Given that your business drives, you can scale vertically to upgrades things of the past. environment is in a constant state of change, you need a new approach address growing capacity requirements. Get Ahead of Market Changes to IT that addresses today’s business However, the move to a shared IT • Expand storage and move data requirements. You need a solution that infrastructure introduces requirements without disruption. eliminates planned downtime, scales for even greater storage scalability, • Automatically optimize work­ nondisruptively as your business grows, flexibility, and data access. Merely loads and eliminate hot spots. and quickly adapts to changing business adding additional storage systems • Accelerate product environments, all while being easy to may not be the answer, because this development and discovery manage and allowing you to stay ahead approach can increase management with the ability to scale linearly of your competition. complexity. to PBs of storage under a Data ONTAP 8 extends the storage single mount point. The Solution domain of a high-availability (HA) The NetApp® Data ONTAP® 8 pair of controllers to multiple pairs Grow Your Business, architecture offers you a storage OS of controllers. With Data ONTAP 8, Not Your IT Expenses platform to help address the challenges capacity scales from terabytes to tens • Get multigenerational storage facing your growing and dynamic of petabytes, all transparent to your support to provide seamless business. Building on NetApp’s leading running applications. Your storage is integration and expansion. storage efficiency features, Data virtualized across as many as 12 HA • Massively scale storage to tens ONTAP 8 adds to this industry-leading pairs, managed as a single logical of petabytes, managed as a unified storage platform massive pool of resources and name space. single logical entity. scalability, improved management for Virtualizing your storage across multiple • Use our unified storage large-scale deployments, and, most pairs of controllers provides nearly platform to enable greater importantly, nondisruptive operations. limitless scalability for even the most storage consolidation for both Nondisruptive operations mean that data-intensive environments, regardless SAN and NAS workloads. you can essentially eliminate planned of network protocol, SAN or NAS. Data Fibre Unified iSCSI/ Channel Connect1 NAS

Multi-Node Cluster

Figure 1) NetApp DataMotion for Volumes offers nondisruptive movement of volumes from one disk aggregate or node to another.

ONTAP 8 offers the first massively Maximum Investment Preservation On-Demand Flexibility—Get Ahead scalable unified storage platform with Data ONTAP 8 offers support for of Market Changes support for FC, FCoE, iSCSI, pNFS, multiple generations of hardware and As your business requirements change, NFS, and CIFS. software within the same cluster. This your infrastructure can be modified means that you can continue to scale dynamically and seamlessly. Adding Nondisruptive Operation your environment with the hardware capacity, performance enhancements Means No Data Outages and software you already own. Previous including Flash-enabled intelligent As your IT operations become more generations of NetApp storage systems caching and I/O ports, or new software and more critical to your business, can coexist with newer generations in features to your environment can all be downtime is something you can’t the same cluster, allowing you to retain done without losing access to your afford. Downtime can mean lost your existing NetApp investments and data. NetApp DataMotion™ for Volumes business. Even planned downtime is even third-party investments supported software enables nondisruptive something to avoid. With Data ONTAP with V-Series. Support for multiple movement of storage volumes from 8, you can refresh your hardware and generations of hardware also extends anywhere to anywhere within the software without losing access to your to disk media types and system storage cluster. Servicing or upgrading data. When it is time to refresh your models. By enabling entry and mid- hardware or software is accomplished hardware, you can nondisruptively and high-end systems to exist in the while the storage pool is active. move your data from one HA pair to same cluster, each with different types another within the storage cluster, of storage media, you can establish Data ONTAP 8 allows you to rebalance allowing you to retire the old hardware classes of service within the same pool capacity and workload on the fly. You from the cluster. Adding new hardware of resources, all managed as a single can easily improve service levels by to the cluster is transparent and easy logical entity. Data ONTAP 8 is designed dynamically redeploying or adding more to do. And, once added to the cluster, for multi-tenancy, regardless of network workloads. Hot spots are avoided by data can be moved to the new protocol. You can even nondisruptively moving volumes to less active disk hardware seamlessly to optimize the upgrade or downgrade a client or tenant aggregates. Data ONTAP 8 offers an environment. This rolling-refresh from one service level to another. automated approach to performance approach means that you can manage, optimization so that the precise datasets upgrade, and service your storage get the right technology to meet your infrastructure nondisruptively over the performance and cost targets. life of your data—even during normal business hours. SOFTWARE/FEATURE FUNCTION BENEFIT

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 and virtual Allows you to move data nondisruptively while your storage controllers (vFiler® units) applications keep running

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

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

FlexCache® Caches NFS volumes for accelerated file access Improves your system’s performance, response in remote offices and for server compute farms times, and data availability

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

FlexShare®** Prioritizes storage resource allocation to highest- Provides you with better performance from value workloads on a heavily loaded system designated high-priority applications

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

Infinite Volume*** Creates a single volume that can scale up to 20PB Provides a large container ideal for content with one file system repositories, such as for storing seldom accessed data or fixed content

MetroCluster™** An integrated high-availability/disaster recovery Enables you to have immediate data availability if a solution for campus and metro-area deployments site fails

MultiStore® ** Securely partitions a storage system into multiple Allows you to implement secure multi-tenancy for virtual storage controllers shared storage infrastructure

RAID-DP® A double-parity RAID 6 implementation that Gives you protection plus the performance you need prevents data loss when two drives fail for your most demanding applications

SnapDrive® Provides host-based data management of NetApp Allows you to initiate error-free system restores if storage from Windows®, UNIX®, and ® servers servers fail

SnapLock** Write-protects structured application data files Provides you with worry-free compliance with within a volume to provide WORM disk storage records- retention regulations

SnapManager® Provides host-based data management of NetApp Lets you automate error-free data restores and storage for databases and business applications provides you with application-aware disaster recovery

SnapMirror® Enables automatic, incremental data replication Provides you with flexibility and efficiency when between systems: synchronous or asynchronous 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 Snapshot copies to another NetApp system, Provides you with cost-effective, long-term backups providing an incremental block-level backup solution of disk-based data

SyncMirror** Maintains two online copies of data with RAID-DP Protects your system from all types of hardware protection on each side of the mirror outages, including triple disk failure

** This feature is currently available only in Data ONTAP 8 operating in 7-Mode. *** This feature is available only with Data ONTAP 8 operating in Cluster-Mode.

Table 1) Data ONTAP 8 offers a robust set of standard and optional features. “It’s very important to us that all storage tiers use the Data ONTAP operating system. We save on training costs, and that contributes to our very low TCO for our NetApp products.” Reinoud Reynders IT Infrastructure Director, UZ Leuven “Achieved zero downtime over 48 months and counting with the NetApp cluster.” University of Georgia

Operational Efficiency—Grow Your its life. NetApp OnCommand™ that includes allocated storage Business, Not Your IT Expenses technology allows you to automate, resources from within the cluster as Data ONTAP 8 allows you to scale your virtualize, and manage service delivery well as security parameters such as infrastructure without scaling your IT and SLAs through policy-based rights and permissions. Logical organization. The ease of management provisioning and protection. You can interfaces allow clients to access data of larger storage pools allows you to rapidly deploy resources with the within a Vserver from anywhere in the manage a much larger storage freedom to redeploy as your business cluster. To the application, a Vserver environment with existing IT staff. and IT needs change. presents a securely partitioned storage pool that can be dynamically deployed Additionally, a storage infrastructure How It All Works and redeployed according to changing built on Data ONTAP reduces risk and Data ONTAP 8 offers two operating business requirements. cost since you can standardize on a modes, 7-Mode* and Cluster-Mode. * For more information on Data ONTAP 8 operating in 7-Mode, refer to single unified architecture that scales 7-Mode operation extends the value of the “Data ONTAP 8 Operating System—7-Mode” datasheet. and adapts to the size of your business the Data ONTAP 7G OS onto a 64-bit today and tomorrow. A single operating platform. Cluster-Mode operation platform means that you only have to enhances NetApp’s storage efficiency About NetApp learn one set of commands and can value by introducing massive scalability NetApp creates innovative storage optimize on common features across and nondisruptive operations. With Data and data management solutions that your operation, freeing up time to focus ONTAP 8 operating in Cluster-Mode, deliver outstanding cost efficiency and on business growth. two or more controllers (or nodes) accelerate business breakthroughs. operate as one shared resource pool Discover our passion for helping Ease of Management or storage cluster. The storage cluster companies around the world go NetApp FAS/V-Series systems use a can be expanded, contracted, and further, faster at www..com. common set of management tools that subdivided nondisruptively into one or ® simplify deployment and management more secure partitions, or Vserver. A Go further, faster of your storage environment throughout Vserver is a logical storage container

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