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Lab Validation Report Lab Validation Report NetApp FAS8000 Series Unified, Enterprise, Scale-out Storage By Tony Palmer, Senior Lab Analyst r August 2014 © 2014 by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lab Validation: NetApp FAS8000 Series 2 Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Background ............................................................................................................................................................... 3 NetApp FAS8000 ........................................................................................................................................... 4 ESG Lab Validation ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Seamlessly Scalable Capacity and Performance ....................................................................................................... 6 Non-disruptive Availability and Maintenance ........................................................................................................ 12 Validating Cost-effective, Proven Storage Flexibility .............................................................................................. 16 ESG Lab Validation Highlights ..................................................................................................................... 21 Issues to Consider ....................................................................................................................................... 21 The Bigger Truth ......................................................................................................................................... 22 Appendix ..................................................................................................................................................... 23 ESG Lab Reports The goal of ESG Lab reports is to educate IT professionals about data center technology products for companies of all types and sizes. ESG Lab reports are not meant to replace the evaluation process that should be conducted before making purchasing decisions, but rather to provide insight into these emerging technologies. Our objective is to go over some of the more valuable feature/functions of products, show how they can be used to solve real customer problems and identify any areas needing improvement. ESG Lab's expert third-party perspective is based on our own hands-on testing as well as on interviews with customers who use these products in production environments. This ESG Lab report was sponsored by NetApp. All trademark names are property of their respective companies. Information contained in this publication has been obtained by sources The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) considers to be reliable but is not warranted by ESG. This publication may contain opinions of ESG, which are subject to change from time to time. This publication is copyrighted by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. Any reproduction or redistribution of this publication, in whole or in part, whether in hard-copy format, electronically, or otherwise to persons not authorized to receive it, without the express consent of The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc., is in violation of U.S. copyright law and will be subject to an action for civil damages and, if applicable, criminal prosecution. Should you have any questions, please contact ESG Client Relations at 508.482.0188. © 2014 by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lab Validation: NetApp FAS8000 Series 3 Introduction This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the newly released NetApp FAS8000 with Data ONTAP 8.2. ESG Lab focused on key areas that make the FAS8000 an attractive offering for the midmarket and enterprise: enhanced capacity and performance, seamless scalability, non-disruptive availability, and cost-effective storage efficiency. Background The demands on and for storage are increasing rapidly. To address data growth without interrupting business operations, rapid deployment of storage and IT resources becomes a function of scalability. ESG’s 2014 IT Spending Intentions Survey revealed that, as they have been since 2010, increased use of server virtualization, improved backup and recovery, and data growth management are all in the top ten most frequently cited 2014 IT priorities. The adoption of server virtualization is nearly ubiquitous among enterprise and midmarket organizations, and increased usage of the technology was identified by 32% of respondents as one of their most important IT priorities for 2014.1 Figure 1. Top-ten Most Important IT Priorities for 2014 Which of the following would you consider to be your organization’s most important IT priorities over the next 12 months? (Percent of respondents, N=562, ten responses accepted) Increased use of server virtualization 32% Information security initiatives 32% Improve data backup and recovery 29% Manage data growth 25% Desktop virtualization 24% Use cloud infrastructure services 23% Regulatory compliance initiatives 23% Major application deployments or upgrades 23% Business intelligence/data analytics initiatives 23% Data center consolidation 22% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, 2014. ESG research also shows that midmarket organizations—those with less than 1,000 employees—share many of the same IT priorities as enterprise organizations. For the midmarket, data protection—in the form of improved data backup and recovery processes and/or business continuity/disaster recovery programs—accounted for the top-two responses. Also among the top-ten responses are increased use of server virtualization, managing data growth, and desktop virtualization. Traditional storage area networks (SANs) use a scale-up architecture, expanding capacity by adding disks to a monolithic controller architecture to scale capacity, and adding additional independent controllers to scale I/O. With more focus being placed on advanced capabilities such as data analytics, virtualization, and the transition to the cloud model, senior executives and line-of-business stakeholders are growing dependent on IT infrastructure. These key stakeholders are demanding that IT duplicate public cloud reliability and uptime, putting pressure on IT to develop non-disruptive operations and service level objectives. 1 Source: ESG Research Report, IT Spending Intentions Survey, February 2014. © 2014 by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lab Validation: NetApp FAS8000 Series 4 NetApp FAS8000 The newly released NetApp FAS8000 series storage systems are designed to consolidate the FAS/V3200 and FAS/V6200 product lines into a single, enterprise scale-out storage line. The intent is to minimize overlap and simplify buying decisions for NetApp customers. The FAS8000 series is complemented by the newly released FAS2500 series storage systems which replace the FAS2200 series and provide a single scale-out storage solution for SMB and midmarket customers. Figure 2. The Comprehensive NetApp FAS Portfolio NetApp FAS8000 enterprise storage systems are engineered specifically to address the demands of data-driven businesses using an integrated combination of high-performance hardware and scalable storage software. Leveraging the latest multi-core, multi-processor chipsets from Intel, the FAS8000 increases and enhances NVRAM to accelerate and optimize writes along with PCIe gen3 I/O architecture to maximize data throughput. Flexibility and expandability are provided by a dense modular package integrating the unified target adapter (UTA2) for 16G FC or 10Gb Ethernet communication capabilities on the same ASIC. The FAS8000 series supports active-active dual-controller high-availability in four configurations. A FAS 8020 HA pair scales to 2.88PB, while a FAS8040 HA pair scales to 4.32PB, a FAS8060 HA pair scales to 7.2PB and a FAS8080 EX HA pair scales up to 8.64PB and a maximum of 1,440 disk drives per controller pair. With up to 24 PCIe expansion slots, administrators can install UTA2, 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet adapters, and 6Gb SAS adapters for disk expansion. FAS8000 can accelerate storage with up to 36TB of hybrid flash storage, improving throughput and lowering latency for predictable high performance. All flash FAS8000 configurations with up to 384TB of flash per HA pair provide the lowest latencies for maximum performance. NetApp FAS8000 leverages the latest generation of the Data ONTAP software in single controller, active-active controller, or clustered for high-availability configurations. Data ONTAP can cluster up to 24 nodes, leveraging the © 2014 by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lab Validation: NetApp FAS8000 Series 5 combined I/O capability of all nodes for throughput and redundancy, ensuring enterprise accessibility to business- critical data. A single cluster can non-disruptively scale out to 432TB of hybrid flash and 103.7PB of capacity. A cluster of all-flash FAS8000s can scale out to 4.6PB of flash. New for the FAS8000 series is FlexArray storage virtualization. This feature enables the FAS8000 series controllers to pool storage provided by NetApp E-Series, EMC, HP, and Hitachi storage systems. FlexArray is enabled by license key on the FAS8000 series, eliminating the need for a separate hardware option. Using FlexArray, administrators can pool their heterogeneous storage
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