Datasheet NetApp SnapManager for Microsoft SQL Server Streamline data management, reduce costs, and increase availability

The Challenge The key to solving this issue is to KEY BENEFITS Increase data availability while upgrade your SQL Server environment Reduce Operational Costs reducing management costs to a flexible, enterprise-class storage ® Leverage our centralized data Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is the solution that serves your data efficiently management capabilities to database of choice for many enterprise and reliably while reducing management simplify and optimize SQL applications. Typically, numerous SQL costs and leveraging as much of your Server® data storage, according Server applications are deployed to current infrastructure as possible. to business requirements. serve multiple business units in an enterprise. This often leads to complex The Solution Enhance Performance deployment scenarios because Deploy NetApp SnapManager for Microsoft SQL Server Speed data protection to applications tend to have different minimize downtime and optimize availability and data protection require- The scope, scale, and complexity of DB performance, maximizing ments. As the number of Windows today’s data-driven world create new revenue-generating transactions. Server® instances storing SQL Server demands for agility in the data center. ® ® databases increases, so does the NetApp SnapManager for Microsoft Increase Productivity complexity. Backing up databases SQL Server is tightly integrated with Streamline data management stored on multiple devices and, as Microsoft technology to help you and automate routine tasks so needed, restoring full backups and streamline database storage manage- DBAs and administrators can multiple incremental backups are ment while simplifying storage layout spend less time performing time-consuming processes. Copying planning, backup, and restore operations. maintenance and more time and managing copies of databases for Our agile storage infrastructure can on high-value/ROI tasks. application development and testing save you time, help you consolidate storage, and simplify management Optimize Business Continuity are additional time-consuming activities across a SQL Server environment. With and Disaster Recovery that typically require significant addi- SnapManager, you can dramatically Perform storage maintenance, tional amounts of storage. Lack of an reduce SQL Server data recovery times hardware lifecycle operations, agile data management solution to from hours to minutes. You can also and software upgrades without address growing demand can result use SnapManager to automate critical interrupting your business. in decreased SQL Server availability processes such as data backup, Restore a failed database of any that can: restore, and cloning, thus freeing your size to full production in minutes. • Increase both opex and capex IT staff to focus on other value-added • Reduce administrator and end-user activities. With SnapManager, you get productivity an industry-leading combination of high • Affect the ability to make quick and availability and seamless scalability for effective business decisions SQL Server environments. “We are a database company at heart. We cannot have corruption, downtime, loss of data, or loss of availability... For us to meet those SLAs, we need a storage environment that we can count on. With NetApp, we have that.” Matthew Leed Vice President of Operations, Gracenote

Maximize data availability the entire production database. In to secondary storage and then dedu- SnapManager for SQL Server takes addition, SnapManager supports both plicate the archived backups to further full advantage of the NetApp clustered up-to-the-minute recovery as well as reduce storage costs. These tech- Data ONTAP® storage , point-in-time recovery options through nologies can also be applied to data which helps you meet stringent service- the automated replaying of transaction archiving. With NetApp FlexClone® level agreements by significantly reducing logs. By reducing restore times to software, DBAs can create database planned and unplanned downtime. minutes, you can further minimize clones with virtually no storage footprint. With this powerful combination, you downtime and enhance application SnapManager also supports virtualized can nondisruptively meet the needs of availability. Additionally, with built-in IT environments, including VMware® SQL Server data growth and changing support for AlwaysOn Availability and Microsoft Hyper-V®. Groups (AGs) in SQL Server 2012 SQL Server application workloads. Deploy federated backups One aspect of this is the ability to combined with the latest release of With NetApp integrated data protection, support multi-tenancy environments, SnapManager for Microsoft SQL Server, you get quick, space-efficient backups where a storage cluster can be securely you can accelerate AG setup, rapidly through a graphical as partitioned to isolate individual tenants— back up and restore all databases in well as a comprehensive set of Windows for instance, in a service provider envi- AGs, create space-efficient clones of PowerShell® cmdlets for easy scripting ronment—or individual applications, databases in AGs, and quickly resyn- of backup/restore workflows. You can workgroups, business units, and so chronize databases within the AG. add multiple SQL Server instances and on. In addition, clustered Data ONTAP In addition, AGs can be mirrored to remote locations using NetApp databases to the same federated group also provides storage quality of service ™ ® and create a Snapshot copy to back (QoS) workload management, which SnapMirror technology. up all databases in that group at the allows you to reactively or proactively Reduce storage costs same time. SnapManager provides the control the resources that can be Reduce your total cost of ownership capability to restore to a marker, so you consumed by each SQL Server work- by consolidating your SQL Server can tie recovery to a business event, load. The combination of multi-tenancy databases onto NetApp storage which is particularly useful for appli- and QoS makes sure that SQL Server systems. By consolidating SQL cations that span multiple databases performance is not affected by other Server data onto NetApp storage, across multiple SQL Server instances. application workloads, resulting in you have the flexibility of an iSCSI, improved performance consistency Increase data protection , FCoE SAN, or SMB and increased customer satisfaction. 3.0 (CIFS) infrastructure. You can use You can minimize exposure to data loss by performing frequent backups When there is a need to quickly recover flexible volumes to eliminate pools of with our fast, nondisruptive Snapshot lost or deleted production data, a unused storage and increase storage technology. SnapManager takes only space-efficient clone can be created utilization, simplify data management, minutes to perform a full backup with from a backup without having to restore and reduce administrative overhead. SnapManager can move online backups minimized disk space. Because our backups are transactionally consistent, Primary Data Center

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SQL Server recognizes them as full SQL Server, and the management of management, including policy- backups. SnapManager helps to make SAN storage is accomplished through based clone deletion and refresh. sure that each backup is valid and native Windows® environments. Because Empower your enterprise DBAs to offer available for restoration by automating SnapManager creates backup jobs that on-demand, periodic, and customized the process of verifying the consistency are executed through the SQL Server staging and user-acceptance testing of database backups. Backup verification agent, they resemble a normal main- services quickly and without errors to needs no additional disk space and is tenance plan to which most DBAs are other DBAs and end users (application integrated into the backup workflow. already accustomed; there is no need engineers) using policy-based clone As a result, you can make more frequent to open the GUI for normal day-to-day lifecycle management. In addition, you and complete backups. Up to 255 active operations. You can proactively monitor can leverage a rich set of Windows Snapshot copies can be kept at any your SQL Server environment with PowerShell 3.0 cmdlets that supports one time with negligible performance automatic e-mail alerts. integration of cloning in test automation impact. SnapManager provides federated scripts and decision support system Optimize database performance backup, which eliminates the need for reporting applications. With SnapManager complex scripting when backing up NetApp has end-to-end flash options, for SQL Server, you can create clones data across interrelated database groups. such as hybrid flash/HDD systems with quickly whenever you need them, with ™ Because SnapManager is integrated Flash Cache™ and Flash Pool , server- minimal impact in terms of space and ™ with NetApp SnapVault® backup software, based caching with Flash Accel , and wasted time. you can increase your level of data all-flash arrays such as the EF540 for Improve data lifecycle management protection by archiving your backups low-latency performance requirements. as well as restoring them on lower Our flash-based solutions help you With SQL Server 2012 your DBAs can cost secondary storage. speed overall performance, boost place archived data in table partitions responsiveness of performance-critical that are backed by secondary data files Achieve intelligent management scenarios, reduce power costs and and can be easily moved to secondary SnapManager provides you with data overprovisioning, and improve utilization storage through the SnapManager protection, backup management, and of your data center space. database migration wizard. Alternatively, database clone lifecycle management. DBAs can back up a database, archive Clone lifecycle management A rich set of Windows PowerShell the backup to secondary storage using 3.0 cmdlets enables DBAs to script SnapManager for SQL Server leverages NetApp SnapVault, and then purge old repetitive tasks as well as include FlexClone technology to make zero- data from the database. In addition, SnapManager functions in custom data storage-footprint clones that can NetApp deduplication can significantly management workflows. In addition, accelerate the release and improve the reduce the storage footprint of the the combination of Data ONTAP quality of new applications based on archived backups. SnapVault also and Windows PowerShell scripting SQL Server. Using an intuitive wizard- allows you to back up databases to enables DBAs to automate manage- based tool, in seconds you can create secondary storage and restore to an ment of LUNs and volumes. NetApp space-efficient copies of SQL Server alternate location. storage appears as local storage to data with end-to-end clone lifecycle Provide multi-tenancy and QoS closely with Microsoft on key product • FC, FCoE, iSCSI, or SMB (with Customers can utilize functionality that integration efforts, including performance Windows 2012 and SQL 2012) Data ONTAP offers to provide data testing, product validation, and joint protocol NetApp SnapDrive® for compartmentalization for all tenants, development. In fact, NetApp was Windows v7.0 for 7-Mode and with each granted access only to its recently awarded Microsoft Partner of clustered Data ONTAP designated storage container. Rich the Year for server solutions. NetApp • Data ONTAP v8.0.5 (7-Mode only), support based on Windows PowerShell Global Support and our extensive 8.1.3 (7-Mode and clustered Data for both Data ONTAP and NetApp partner network can provide expert ONTAP), and 8.2 (7-Mode and integrated backup empowers adminis- help to assist you in planning and clustered Data ONTAP) trators to develop appropriate workflows implementing an efficient and reliable • and x64 platforms that support the needs of your multi- storage and data management solution • Windows guest OS on VMware tenant environment. In addition, clustered for your SQL Server environment. To ESX® 5.1 or later, Microsoft Windows Data ONTAP provides storage QoS see how well an agile data infrastructure Server 2008 R2, or Microsoft Windows workload management using policies from NetApp can support your Microsoft Server 2012 that specify a throughput limit, defined SQL Server environment, visit any For more information about NetApp in terms of IOPS or MB/sec. This makes Microsoft Technology Center. Contact Microsoft solutions, go to www.. sure that SQL Server performance can your NetApp representative for com/microsoftsolutions. be optimized consistently without being more information. affected by other application workloads Use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal System Requirements partnership between NetApp and any other company. or tenants. 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