Software Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode Taking unified storage to new levels of scale

THE CHALLENGE Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode provides: KEY BENEFITS Managing growth and change • More efficient storage In today’s rapidly changing business climate, Adapt to change • High availability your enterprise demands cost-effective, Maximize service levels for your • Business continuance flexible data management solutions that business and technical applications • Quality of service can handle the unpredictable and explosive with flexible provisioning that enables • Reduced storage management growth of storage in your heterogeneous you to adapt your storage to fit your complexity evolving requirements. environment. As your business expands, you need your data to work for you. You’re Meet diverse needs Enhance data availability looking for efficiency. You want data manage- Our Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode architecture, We help protect your mission-critical ment that’s able to grow with you as your which is an evolution of our innovative Data data while keeping it instantly available storage needs explode. It’s got to be flexible ONTAP 7G, works together with our storage throughout your organization. enough to adapt to and protect your diverse systems to meet your needs, from small business environment. You want a system workgroups to enterprise data centers. Our Save storage, power, and space that allows you to effectively manage your software integrates seamlessly with UNIX®, Store more information on less disk resources—something simple, and something Windows®, and Web environments. You get space, saving power, cooling costs, you can afford. scalable performance and a flexible storage and space. environment with solutions that store and THE SOLUTION Increase productivity serve your applications, consolidate your Maximize staff productivity and Implement our scalable, flexible Data data, and provide reliable data access get to market faster with our ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode operating system throughout your enterprise. operating environment, optimized for NetApp® storage solutions help you manage The Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode operating system virtualization. data in your enterprise environment with a scalable and flexible operating system we simplifies your management and optimizes Lower TCO call Data ONTAP® 8 7-Mode. storage utilization by combining our patented Lower your total cost of ownership file-system technology and a microkernel through simplified deployment, design, giving you the following benefits. administration, and management. SOFTWARE/ FUNCTION BENEFIT FEATURE

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

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 for particular workloads

FlexClone Instantaneously creates file, LUN, and volume Enables you to save time in testing and develop- clones without requiring additional storage ment and increases your storage capacity

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

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

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

MultiStore® Securely partitions a storage system into multiple Allows you to consolidate multiple domains and virtual storage appliances file servers

Operations Manages multiple NetApp systems from a single Simplifies your NetApp deployment and allows you to Manager administrative console consolidate management of multiple NetApp systems

Protection Backup and replication management software Lets you automate data protection, enabling you Manager for NetApp disk-to-disk environments to have mistake-free backup

System Manager Provides setup, provisioning, and configuration Simplifies out-of-box setup and device management management of a Data ONTAP storage system using an intuitive Windows-based interface

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

SnapMover® Enables rapid reassignment of disks between Lets you load balance an active-active controller controllers within a system, without disruption system with no disruption to data flow

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

SnapValidator® Maximizes data integrity for Oracle® Databases Allows you to enhance the resiliency of Oracle Data- bases so they comply with Oracle HARD initiative

SnapVault Exports Snapshot copies to another NetApp Provides you with cost-effective, long-term system, providing an incremental block-level backups of disk-based data backup solution

SyncMirror Maintains two online copies of data with Protects your system from all types of hardware RAID-DP protection on each side of the mirror outages, including triple disk failure Adapt to change quickly and easily Buy less storage • Multipath high availability Flexible volumes don’t require prepartitioning. You can consolidate hundreds of terabytes • Active-active controller failover Now you can more easily tailor the data to on a single storage system because our • RAID-DP® fit your needs. And, even better, you can operating system is so adept at taking • SyncMirror® do it more quickly with smaller overhead. advantage of multiple processors. It’s the • Patent-pending block-level checksum A quicker response means a more nimble perfect fit for any business or technical capability business. With Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode, application. we extend the volume sizes by supporting Business continuance and compliance aggregates based on 64 bits, resulting in a Share heterogeneous data throughout We understand that lengthy disruptions to theoretical size of up to 1000PB. your company information access and noncompliance with With Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode, you have records retention regulations are simply not Improve quality of service seamless access to data using block- and options in your business. Data ONTAP 8.0 With FlexShare™ you can consolidate file-level protocols on a single storage system. 7-Mode includes innovative, disaster-tolerant disparate applications, prioritize specific We provide block-level data access over a data protection and recovery features. You data sets, and dynamically adjust priorities SAN fabric using FCP and get business continuance and disk-based as the needs arise. You can use FlexShare to over an IP-based network using iSCSI. data permanence features for regulated and host multiple workloads on a single NetApp Our SecureShare® cross-protocol locking reference data. system and then assign individual priorities technology helps keeps you from having to to each. compromise security, compatibility, or perfor- Extend data protection mance when sharing heterogeneous data. With NetApp Snapshot technology you can Reduce costs provide near-instantaneous file-level or full Now you can store more data in less Enhance data availability data set recovery. You get up to 255 data- disk space because we integrated data We also help you reduce costly downtime and in-place, point-in-time images per volume. deduplication and thin provisioning. FlexVol® maximize access to your mission-critical data. Unlike snapshot implementations from other technology enables you to use your storage Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode standard features vendors, NetApp Snapshot copies are nearly systems at maximum efficiency, thus lowering and optional capabilities that contribute instantaneous, and they require minimal disk your hardware investment to a minimum. Not to this high level of data availability include: space overhead. They are uniquely suited for only do you reduce the amount of physical protecting your production data. ® storage, but you can also see significant • WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) savings in power, cooling, and data center file system real estate costs. • Snapshot™ • FlexClone® Integrated RAID provides you with cost- Deploy quickly and easily Manage with ease effective protection against multiple disk You can quickly configure and install our Using NetApp Operations Manager, you failures and errors. Our double-parity operating system using our setup wizard. can centrally manage multiple systems RAID-DP (our high-performance RAID Because we use standard naming and throughout your enterprise. We make it 6 application) helps you protect against authentication services, you’ll find our easy: Wizards guide you through common disruption of service to users. software easy to deploy as it seamlessly management operations. integrates into your existing UNIX and Experience lower TCO Windows environments. Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode enables greater efficiency and productivity in your business by simplifying the deployment, adminis- tration, and management of your storage infrastructure.

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