Datasheet Clustered Data ONTAP Respond more quickly to business changes and new opportunities—on premises or in the cloud

The Challenge private, public, or a hybrid infrastructure. KEY BENEFITS Businesses today struggle with the Clustered Data ONTAP is designed to Nondisruptive Operations increasing amount of data that they eliminate downtime, allowing you to • Perform storage maintenance, need to store, manage, and protect. service your infrastructure without dis- hardware lifecycle operations, Growing competitive pressure, budget rupting access to user data and applica- and software upgrades without constraints, and 24-hour business tions, even during regular business hours. interrupting your business. cycles require that your mission-critical Simplify your overall storage environment • Eliminate planned and business processes and data remain with proven operational efficiency that unplanned downtime for accessible around the clock. helps you manage storage infrastructure continuous business availability. at scale. Automate important processes • Improve service levels by As your business continues to evolve managing storage resources and grow, you need a modern approach to increase productivity. Add capacity dynamically. to data storage. Pressure is on IT to act as you grow across both SAN and NAS as a broker of services and to eliminate environments without reconfiguring Proven Efficiency planned and unplanned downtime. This ­running applications. • Reduce storage costs with requires you to improve the agility and comprehensive storage Clustered Data ONTAP provides up efficiency of your IT infrastructure and efficiency technologies. to 24 storage ­controllers—or nodes— your IT staff to deliver on service-level • Use a single infrastructure managed as a single logical pool, expectations. In addition, you need to for workloads or tenants with so your operations scale more easily. be able to scale nondisruptively with different performance, capacity, Start small and grow big without the the pace of your business and capitalize and security requirements. burden of disruptive hardware upgrades, on cloud services. • Increase management which are common practice with other efficiency as you scale your The Solution storage vendors. storage environment. Clustered Data ONTAP addresses the Prevent Business Disruptions Seamless Scalability challenges that face your growing and With IT integral to your business opera- • Scale capacity, performance, dynamic business by extending the tions, the impact of downtime goes and operations without disruption. innovation of NetApp Data ONTAP, the beyond lost money or productivity. • Scale SAN and NAS from world’s number one branded storage Your company’s reputation might also be terabytes to tens of petabytes operating system.1 Our unified cluster at stake. Clustered Data ONTAP eliminates without affecting running architecture scales and adapts to your sources of downtime and protects your applications. changing needs, and reduces risk and critical data against disaster. • Combine different generations cost. It also provides a clear approach to of storage hardware for invest- deploy your vision of the cloud, whether ment protection.

1. IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker Q1 2014, June 2014 (Open Networked Disk Storage Systems revenue). “[Clustered Data ONTAP] lets us move data—for load balancing, for moving less‑used or inactive data to lower-cost drives, or for technology updates— without having to stop the application… It used to take 28 days to restore a 100TB Oracle DB—now it takes 15 minutes.” CERN

Nondisruptive operations leading applications. Our IDP solutions storage option that combines the per- NetApp clustered Data ONTAP allows also include integrated and unified disk- formance of flash with the capacity of hard you to perform critical tasks without to-disk backup and disaster recovery disk drives (HDDs). With these systems, interrupting your business. You can in a single process for VMware® and hot data is automatically cached in flash dynamically assign, promote, and retire Microsoft® virtualization. to accelerate application performance. storage resources to improve service You achieve optimal performance with Manage Infrastructure at Scale levels over the lifecycle of an application. little or no tuning, no time-consuming with Proven Efficiency Plus, storage controllers and disk shelves data migrations, and no ongoing data can be replaced without disruption. Clustered Data ONTAP gives you the prioritization and management. capabilities and tools you need to make You can move data between controllers both your storage and your IT staff Manage data at scale without application interruption when more productive. You can scale your Clustered Data ONTAP management data movement is required to achieve storage infrastructure without scaling processes scale so that when your management objectives—for example, your IT organization. A common set storage doubles in size, it no longer as an application transitions from of features and procedures simplifies means that you have twice as much ­development to production or to complex tasks, so your IT staff can work to manage it. And the NetApp adjust service levels. be more productive and focus on OnCommand® software portfolio addressing more important priorities. extends the value of your clustered With clustered Data ONTAP, you can mix Data ONTAP environment. It includes models and generations of hardware to Superior storage efficiency management products for small, mid- extend the life of existing investments With clustered Data ONTAP, you can size, and large enterprises that need or to support leasing decisions as you reduce costs with one of the most com- to manage virtualized private and add new storage systems and retire prehensive storage efficiency offerings hybrid cloud environments. older ones. All storage maintenance in the industry. You get innovative NetApp operations and software upgrades Snapshot™ copies, replication and ­cloning With OnCommand, you can set up your can be performed without interrupting technologies, thin provisioning, inline and new hardware quickly and start manag- your day-to-day business. postprocess data compression, and ing your clustered environment with a deduplication. NetApp is the only storage device management tool. For a large or Integrated data protection provider delivering proven efficiencies growing environment, you can choose Clustered Data ONTAP provides integrated for both SAN and NAS on software- software for centralized monitoring of data protection (IDP) to safeguard your based, converged infrastructure and capacity, availability, performance, and operations and keep them running virtualized third-party arrays for entry- data protection. You can manage at smoothly. Technologies include near- level, midtier, and enterprise systems. scale, optimize performance, and take instant backup and recovery, as well as advantage of storage service analytics synchronous and asynchronous replica- Optimized for flash to make better-informed decisions tion to satisfy your business continuity Clustered Data ONTAP supports all-flash about your storage. and disaster recovery requirements. configurations for those applications that We also provide superior integration require the highest IOPS with consistent with enterprise backup vendors and low latency. You can also choose a hybrid ERP Messaging VDI

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Figure 1) With native multi-tenancy, clustered Data ONTAP appears to each application or tenant as a separate, secure storage system. QoS policies control consumption of cluster performance resources.

You can build on our OnCommand Stay Ahead of Business Changes using different controller technologies, management platform and automate with Seamless Scalability storage tiers, and QoS policies. In addi- your storage processes, and also inte- Start small, grow big tion, you can span multiple controllers grate storage processes for end-to-end Storage systems that run clustered for nearly limitless scalability. service delivery. Use OnCommand soft- Data ONTAP can scale SAN and NAS Maximize Investment Protection ware products to enable IT self-service from terabytes to tens of petabytes and to deploy your private and hybrid transparently and without reconfiguring You can mix storage controllers from cloud services. running applications. You can start with various NetApp FAS product lines and a single cluster node or two nodes and virtualize third-party arrays with NetApp Maximize Shared Storage Investments seamlessly expand your cluster up to FlexArray virtualization. You can grow Clustered Data ONTAP lets you save time 24 nodes as your business needs grow. your cluster with the latest hardware and money by consolidating and sharing and keep older hardware longer the same infrastructure for workloads or Easily adapt because you can mix different generations tenants that have different performance, With clustered Data ONTAP, you can of hardware in the same cluster. When capacity, and security requirements. rebalance capacity and workloads as it’s time to retire a storage system, you needed. You can improve service levels can simply upgrade the controllers and Multi-tenancy by redeploying workloads dynamically keep data in place. A storage cluster can be subdivided and you can avoid hot spots by moving into secure partitions governed by volumes to less active disk aggregates Make the Right Choice for Cloud rights and permissions. These storage or spreading workloads across multiple Deploy your system on-premises or virtual machines (SVMs) can be used to controllers. Each dataset gets the right integrate with public cloud providers to securely isolate individual tenants—for technology to meet your performance meet ever-changing business expecta- instance, in a service provider environ- and cost targets. tions. Clustered Data ONTAP allows ment—or individual applications, work- you to evolve from a private cloud to groups, or business units. Because Scale up and scale out a hybrid cloud environment without SVMs aren’t tied to particular physical Scale up individual storage controllers introducing risk or compromising avail- resources, you can move an SVM or by adding high-capacity HDDs, high- ability, storage efficiency, or scalability. adjust the resources available to it performance HDDs, or low-latency ­without disruption. SSDs, or scale out by adding additional storage controllers to a cluster. About NetApp Quality of service Leading organizations worldwide Clustered Data ONTAP offers QoS work- Most scale-out storage solutions provide count on NetApp for software, systems load management that allows you to a single large repository. Clustered Data and services to manage and store their control the resources that each workload ONTAP takes a different approach that data. Customers value our teamwork, can consume, so you can better manage gives you more flexibility and greater expertise and passion for helping them performance spikes and improve cus- control. NetApp Infinite Volume lets succeed now and into the future. tomer satisfaction. You can consolidate you create large, flexible, and easy-to- many workloads or tenants on a cluster manage content repositories. You also www..com without fear that the most important have the ability to isolate workloads workloads will suffer or that activity in and offer different levels of service by one tenant partition will affect another. Software/Feature Function Benefits

Data compression Provides transparent inline and postprocess Reduces the amount of storage you need to data compression for data reduction purchase and maintain

NetApp DataMotion™ Offers nondisruptive data mobility for volumes Granular data mobility allows you to move data and LUNs nondisruptively while your applications keep running

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

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

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

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

Infinite Volume Creates a volume that can scale up to 20PB with Provides a large container for content repositories; one file system a single cluster can contain multiple Infinite Volumes

NetApp MetroCluster™ Combines array-based clustering with synchronous Maintains business continuity for critical enterprise mirroring to deliver continuous availability and zero applications and workloads in the event of a data data loss center disaster

QoS Creates a performance limit for a storage workload Can prevent one workload or tenant from affecting the performance of another in multiworkload and multi-tenant environments

NetApp RAID-DP® Provides a double-parity RAID 6 implementa- Protects your data without the performance impact tion that prevents data loss when two drives fail; of other RAID 6 implementations default RAID option

NetApp SnapDrive® Provides host-based data management of NetApp Lets you automate OS-consistent backup, restore, storage from Microsoft Windows®, UNIX®, and cloning, and other operations, taking full advantage ® servers of NetApp capabilities

NetApp SnapManager ® Provides host-based data management of NetApp Offers application-aware backup and disaster storage for databases and business applications recovery; automates error-free data restores

NetApp SnapMirror ® Enables automatic, incremental asynchronous data Provides you with flexibility and efficiency when replication between systems mirroring for data distribution and disaster recovery

NetApp 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

NetApp SnapVault® Exports space-efficient Snapshot copies, Provides you with cost-effective, long-term backups preserving compression and deduplication of disk-based data savings, to another NetApp system, providing an incremental backup solution

Table 1) Clustered Data ONTAP offers a robust set of standard and optional features.

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