NETWORK APPLIANCE™ FABRIC-ATTACHED STORAGE NETWORK APPLIANCE FAS6000 SERIES

The NetApp family of fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems provides primary and secondary storage solutions from the department to the enterprise data center. The fl agship FAS6000 delivers high, consistent performance and unmatched agility among storage alternatives for enterprise data centers.

THE CHALLENGE: NetApp storage systems are easy to install, Managing Data for Maximum confi gure, manage, expand, and upgrade. Business Advantage Add these general characteristics to the Enterprises across all industries are facing performance, capacity, and remarkable similar data management demands. The versatility of the FAS6000 series, and unrelenting growth of data, the require- you have an ideal platform for large-scale ments for regulatory compliance, and applications and storage consolidation. KEY FEATURES the need for continuous data availability PERFORMANCE Performance combine to present a formidable challenge Delivers high, consistent performance in the enterprise data center. In addition, High performance and massive storage for the largest applications and storage there is constant pressure to do more capacity are characteristics that make consolidation. with fewer resources at higher levels of the FAS6000 series ideal for large-scale service, which drives efforts to consoli- applications and storage consolidation. Application Availability date IT infrastructures. These demands A FAS6000 system completes jobs more FAS6000 systems with Data ONTAP® call for large-scale enterprise storage that quickly and handles more users via a enable application-level recovery in not only satisfi es application-level service powerful, high-bandwidth architecture minutes, not hours, upon failure or requirements but also is cost effective with scalability to over 1,000 disk drives. user error. to purchase and maintain and has the FAS6000 storage systems provide a high Agility fl exibility to support continually changing degree of I/O expandability, with up to Data ONTAP enables provisioning or business requirements. 32 ports or 48 Gigabit reconfi guration of storage in minutes. ports. THE SOLUTION: FlexShare™ service priorities can be NetApp FAS6000 Series FlexShare, a new standard feature of the changed in seconds. Network Appliance is helping enterprises Data ONTAP 7G , ensures Total Cost of Ownership tackle the challenge of effective data man- that critical workloads get priority service Lower acquisition and operational cost agement. The FAS6000 series storage and consistent performance when the than traditional large-scale storage. systems increase business agility and storage controller is operating at maximum reduce ownership costs without com- load. When workload priorities change, promising application-level service FlexShare settings can be updated and in requirement levels. effect immediately. APPLICATION AVAILABILITY The unifi ed architecture of a FAS6000 drives down the cost of administering FAS6000 series storage systems combine system eliminates the need to manage storage. Additionally, dramatic increases a variety of features to meet the need for separate NAS and SAN storage because in capacity utilization have been dem- continuous availability. Complementing it provides concurrent support for both onstrated with the FlexVol™ virtualization the high-availability hardware design is fi le and block protocols and interfaces. technology available in Data ONTAP 7G. With support for Fibre Channel and SATA the proven reliability of the Data ONTAP COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES operating system and RAID-DP,™ which hard drives, the FAS6000 series also has NetApp Global Services provides the uniquely provides double-level RAID the fl exibility to be used for primary and comprehensive support and services with negligible performance impact. The secondary tiered storage. required in the enterprise data center. FAS6000 also supports simple, yet power- Another feature of the Data ONTAP NetApp ConsultingEdge provides a ful synchronous and asynchronous mirror- ™ operating system, FlexClone, enables complete yet fl exible set of consulting ing as well as disaster recovery options. the instant creation of clones without services to help you plan, implement, Ultimately what matters is application- requiring incremental storage. FlexClone and optimize storage solutions. NetApp level availability, and this is where NetApp can dramatically accelerate test and SupportEdge Premium offers a hybrid systems excel. Snapshot,™ a standard development cycles for IT projects. approach to support, combining expert feature of Data ONTAP, makes it possible LOWER COST OF OWNERSHIP on-site resources with innovative remote to instantly revert to a previous version capabilities. SupportEdge Premium NetApp storage systems deliver unsur- of data upon failure or user error. NetApp includes hardware and software installa- passed value for large-scale enterprise Snapshot copies are unique in that they tion, system monitoring, proactive notifi ca- storage systems. In addition to having can be created frequently during pro- tion, immediate reactive support, remote lower acquisition cost than traditional duction, because they use only a small diagnostics, and a blend of remote and large-scale storage systems, the FAS6000 amount of incremental storage and have on-site repair. Quarterly storage availability can dramatically reduce staffi ng costs virtually no impact on performance. audits and a software subscription plan because it is much easier to install and are also included. AGILITY manage than alternative systems. ABOUT NETWORK APPLIANCE Storage provisioning can take hours on The unifi ed storage architecture of the other storage systems but requires only FAS6000 series eliminates the need Network Appliance is a world leader in seconds with NetApp FAS systems. With to deploy multiple systems to address unifi ed storage solutions for today’s data- policy-based space reservations, provi- requirements for block and fi le storage. intensive enterprise. Since its inception in sioning can be done automatically, without The cost of hard disk drives can be cut 1992, Network Appliance has delivered disruption to applications. in half by using SATA drives instead of technology, product, and partner fi rsts that Fibre Channel or SCSI drives. Storage simplify data management. Information management is greatly simplifi ed by the about Network Appliance solutions and Data ONTAP operating system, which services is available at www..com.

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