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Datasheet NetApp FlexArray Virtualization Software The industry’s only unified SAN and NAS storage virtualization platform The Challenge FlexArray software helps meet your KEY BENEFITS Expanding IT capabilities while changing business requirements Do More with Your reducing complexity through increased uptime with nondis- Existing Storage You have made substantial investments ruptive operations and continuous data Deliver advanced data in your existing infrastructure, but IT availability, superior cost control with management and software- requirements are changing. You’re being proven efficiency technologies, and defined storage capabilities. asked to increase uptime, improve improved performance with flash accel- application performance, and consider eration—all with the advantages of the Unify SAN and NAS new cloud strategies. You would like to NetApp Data ONTAP® operating sys- Serve a broader range of SAN satisfy these operational requirements tem. Clustered Data ONTAP provides and NAS workloads without with the storage you already own, but, the data control you need in a single complex add-on components. unfortunately, many platforms cannot platform that spans private, public, extend to meet new IT requirements. and hybrid clouds. Eliminate Downtime Perform maintenance and Adding new data storage architectures How NetApp FlexArray Works updates with no disruption; to your environment is one way to solve FlexArray connects your existing storage provide continuous data this challenge. But that creates silos arrays to FAS8000 controllers by using availability for mission-critical of storage that increase complexity, a Fibre Channel SAN. Array LUNs are applications. and retiring existing storage assets provisioned to the FAS8000 and col- can be costly. Enable Cloud Deployments lected into a storage pool from which NetApp volumes are created and Manage and maintain control of The Solution shared out to SAN hosts and NAS your data across private, public, NetApp FlexArray virtualization and hybrid clouds. software clients. Foreign LUN Import simplifies the process of transitioning existing Simplify your IT operations and deliver Simplify IT Operations data to the FlexArray environment. more value from existing investments Move data easily from older with the only unified storage virtualization storage and standardize storage The new volumes, managed by the solution. NetApp® FlexArray virtualization management. FAS8000, benefit from the full suite of software enables FAS8000 systems to NetApp capabilities, such as Integrated Deliver Proven Storage virtualize existing EMC, HP, Hitachi, and Data Protection and storage efficiency. Efficiency NetApp E-Series arrays. This creates a You can provision the entire array to Reduce storage needs by 35% single storage management architec- the FAS8000 or allow some hosts to or more and get full ROI in nine ture that overcomes the limitations of continue to access the array directly. months—guaranteed.* existing arrays, expands the capabilities of your IT infrastructure, and delivers the benefits of software-defined storage. *Subject to terms and conditions. Figure 1) How FlexArray on FAS8000 works. FlexArray gives you the flexibility to add The Benefits Eliminate planned downtime new capacity either to existing arrays or Simplify IT operations and With IT now integral to your business, the to NetApp FAS disk shelves (SSDs improve productivity impact of downtime goes beyond dollars and HDDs). When you’re ready to FlexArray has the flexibility to serve or productivity lost. Data ONTAP non- retire older storage arrays, you can both SAN and NAS protocols at the disruptive operations capabilities eliminate simply move data to disk shelves same time without any complex add-on the need for outages during upgrades, on the FAS8000 with no user or components, making the FAS8000 the component replacements, capacity application disruptions. ideal storage virtualization platform. additions, and other activities. Essential You can serve NAS workloads from tasks—even full storage refreshes—can FAS8000 storage systems are engineered your existing SAN array or support occur during normal business hours to deliver high performance and quickly additional SAN protocols. without affecting applications or users. adapt to evolving IT models. Powered by Data ONTAP and optimized for When existing storage is virtualized by Provide an on-ramp to the cloud scale-out, the FAS8000 series has FlexArray, you create a single storage Your current storage arrays may be the flexibility to keep up with changing management architecture with an easy- unable to effectively span private, business needs while delivering on core to-learn set of tools for provisioning, public, and hybrid clouds. FlexArray IT requirements for uptime, scalability, performance management, and data software eliminates these constraints and cost efficiency. Plus, FAS8000 protection that is tightly integrated with by incorporating your storage under systems with FlexArray can be deployed application providers such as Microsoft, Data ONTAP, delivering best-in-class in FlexPod® converged infrastructure VMware, Oracle, and others. NetApp data management and control for solutions, integrating your existing backup, recovery, and replication the cloud. arrays with best-in-class NetApp and options protect your data. NetApp Cisco® components in a validated MetroCluster™ software can deliver Your storage can become part of a private cloud using options such as enterprise-class IT platform. continuous data availability for your ® most critical applications. OpenStack or Microsoft Private Cloud. FlexArray on FAS8000 delivers virtual- FlexArray and the FAS8000 extend the ization capabilities similar to those of the Full software-defined storage capabilities reach of your business by connecting NetApp V-Series open storage controller can be used to automate all provisioning with cloud services, including: that customers have been successfully and data management tasks. REST deploying for over 10 years. Rather APIs let you initiate tasks through your • Hundreds of cloud service providers than requiring a separate hardware existing management tools or directly who have built their services on NetApp platform, FlexArray software has the from applications. Your IT team can • NetApp Cloud ONTAP—Data ONTAP advantage of being installable at any reduce operational overhead and software running in the cloud time, either at initial system purchase spend less time on day-to-day tasks • Our suite of NetApp Private Storage or after a FAS8000 has been deployed. such as backup and disaster recovery. for Cloud offerings, delivering superior I/O performance and data security FLEXARRAY VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS FAS models FAS8020, FAS8040, FAS8060, FAS8080 EX: Purchase and activate FlexArray at any time Data ONTAP versions Data ONTAP 8.2.1 or later (clustered Data ONTAP and Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode) Arrays EMC, HP, Hitachi, NetApp E-Series (see Interoperability Matrix Tool for details); also supports NetApp FAS disk shelves (SSDs and HDDs) Protocols FC SAN, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS/SMB Additional software Supports all Data ONTAP software except SnapLock® Compliance (see the FAS8000 software page for more details) Number of disks plus array LUNs FAS8020: up to 480 FAS8040: up to 720 FAS8060: up to 1,200 FAS8080 EX: up to 1,440 Flash portfolio Flash Cache™: With FAS8000/FlexArray plus external arrays or NetApp FAS disk shelves Flash Pool™: With FAS8000/FlexArray plus NetApp FAS disk shelves Table 1) FlexArray virtualization software supports a broad range of storage arrays, protocols, flash, and scalable configurations. Visit netapp.com/cloud to find ments have a high degree of duplication, • Deploy and transition services— out more about our full range with dozens or even hundreds of copies to implement validated architectures of cloud offerings. of the same operating systems. NetApp and prepare your storage environment guarantees at least a 35% reduction • Operations services—to deliver Accelerate a broad range of workloads with flash in storage requirements with FlexArray continuous operations while driving in virtualized environments.* operational excellence and efficiency FlexArray hybrid storage configurations boost the throughput of your existing Get guaranteed savings In addition, NetApp provides in-depth storage, decrease latency, and meet Your investment in NetApp storage knowledge transfer and education service-level agreements. Data ONTAP virtualization will pay for itself in nine services that give you access to and the FAS8000 simplify flash man- months or less, or we will make up the our global technical resources and agement, delivering the full potential difference.* This guarantee covers your intellectual property. of both SSDs and HDDs. FAS8000 system plus FlexArray software, as well as the required Learn more at netapp.com/services. Flash can be configured as persistent software and support. storage in NetApp FAS shelves or as self-managing hybrid storage, Get More Business Value with Services About NetApp with up to 144TB of cache per HA Whether you are planning your next- Leading organizations worldwide pair and 1.7PB per cluster. generation environment, need specialized count on NetApp for software, systems and services to manage and store their Improve efficiency and return know-how for a major deployment, or data. 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