HARDWARE NETWORK APPLIANCE™ FABRIC-ATTACHED STORAGE SYSTEMS Network Appliance provides the industry’s most fl exible, manageable, and scalable storage systems, which provide maximum data availability and data protection. KEY FEATURES THE CHALLENGE: MANAGING DATA risks, and control change. The breadth Reliable FOR MAXIMUM BUSINESS ADVANTAGE of the FAS product line provides storage Continuous data availability meeting the Continuous and ready access to an ever- solutions for a broad range of environments, needs of business- and mission-critical increasing volume of business information from large corporate data centers to remote applications has become essential to competitiveness offi ces. The FAS product line features the high-end FAS6000 series, for large-scale Fast and success of enterprises of all sizes. data consolidation and high-performance High throughput and fast response times Assuring that high-value data and content applications; the midrange FAS3000 series, demanded by transaction processing, are available whenever and wherever providing exceptional price-performance database, and technical applications needed enables faster decisions and higher productivity by managers, employees, value for both SAN and NAS; and Versatile and partners and better engagement the FAS200 series, for remote location One integrated architecture providing with customers, clients, and prospects. storage within geographically distributed concurrent block and fi le serving over enterprises. Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks Effi cient and effective data management INDUSTRY-LEADING ENTERPRISE Scalable is a core component of providing around- STORAGE CONSOLIDATION Nondisruptive capacity expansion the-clock and around-the-world information and quick performance upgrades from availability. Key aspects of data manage- NetApp FAS series are the most versatile entry-level to high-end confi gurations ment are consolidating data used by systems in the industry for storage multiple applications and many users on consolidation. They deliver simultaneous Simple network storage systems; managing data access for fi les and block-level application Easily installed, confi gured, managed, stored across the enterprise, whether it data and concurrent connection to Fibre and maintained be in data centers or at remote locations; Channel (FC) and IP networks. FAS systems assuring data availability to sustain business are designed to consolidate and serve operations even when a hardware problem, data for a wide variety of applications, human error, or disaster occurs; and including business application suites, protecting and securing data against loss, e-mail, enterprise content management, unauthorized access, and noncompliant technical applications, fi le shares, home modifi cation. directories, and Web content. THE SOLUTION: NETWORK APPLIANCE FAS systems provide data access over FC FABRIC-ATTACHED STORAGE SYSTEMS and iSCSI storage area networks (SANs) Network Appliance fabric-attached storage and support CIFS, NFS, and HTTP fi le (FAS) systems simplify data management, access protocols for network-attached thereby enabling enterprise customers to storage (NAS). They provide scalable, reduce costs and complexity, minimize high-availability storage for Windows®, Figure 1) FAS6070 system. UNIX®, and Linux® operating systems. RESILIENT STORAGE FOR HIGH THE BOTTOM LINE This enables consolidation of data from APPLICATION AVAILABILITY The NetApp FAS product line offers many different applications and system FAS hardware design and the Data a wide range of versatile, tiered-storage environments onto a single system, result- ONTAP operating system are tightly systems with enterprise-class reliability ing in reduced acquisition and operational integrated to provide resilient system and scalability, delivering unmatched costs and increased return on investment operation and high data availability. provisioning simplicity and application (ROI). In addition, FAS systems support FAS systems incorporate redundant integration for high availability. The benefi ts both FC and SATA disk drives, in either and hot-swappable components, and are low total cost of ownership (TCO) homogeneous or mixed storage confi gu- patented RAID-DP™ double-parity and high ROI: in short, exceptional rations, providing a spectrum of tiered technology provides better data storage value. storage options. protection than RAID1+0 mirroring, at NETAPP FAS6000 SERIES SYSTEMS SIMPLIFIED STORAGE PROVISIONING much lower cost and with negligible impact to performance. The FAS6000 series is the fl agship of All FAS systems run the NetApp Data the FAS product line, delivering the ONTAP® operating system, which is NetApp Snapshot™ technology provides performance, scalability, and resiliency optimized for fast, effi cient, and reliable up to 250 data-in-place, point-in-time required of storage used to consolidate data access and retention and dramatically images per LUN or fi le system, available data for very large application environments. simplifi es common storage provisioning for near-instantaneous fi le-level or full data FAS6000 systems provide consistent, and management operations. With set recovery, and the minimal performance high performance whether handling the FlexVol™ technology, LUNs and volumes overhead makes it uniquely suited for aggregated workloads of many servers or are created and confi gured, and they can protecting production data. Host-based serving a single, high-demand application, ® be automatically expanded or contracted SnapManager software integrates making them superb storage solutions for with a single command. With host-based Snapshot management with applications, business application suites, online NetApp SnapDrive™, this fl exible storage assuring consistent backup images transaction processing, databases, and provisioning capability is extended to and application recovery in minutes. large-scale e-mail, as well as for a variety of ® databases and applications. The benefi ts SnapMirror utilizes Snapshot to provide technical applications such as electronics are high-capacity utilization and very fl exible incremental block-level synchronous and and aerospace design, seismic processing, ® provisioning, avoiding the costs of over- asynchronous replication; SnapVault and computer graphics imaging. provisioning and the time-consuming uses it for block-level incremental backups reconfi guration typical with other storage to another system. Together, these The top-of-the-line FAS6070 supports solutions. SnapSuite™ products help deliver the high up to 1,008 disk drives, and the FAS6030 application-level availability enterprises scales to 840 drives, offering hundreds The powerful provisioning capability of require for 24x7 operation. of terabytes of capacity per system. FlexVol is enhanced with FlexClone™, Both models have extensive onboard which instantaneously creates cloned LUNs Fibre Channel (FC) and Gigabit Ethernet or volumes without requiring additional connectivity, which can be augmented storage. FlexClone can dramatically improve using embedded PCI Express (PCIe) and the effectiveness and productivity of PCI-X expansion slots, and integrated application and database development remote LAN management. and predeployment testing. NETAPP FAS980 NETAPP FAS3000 SERIES SYSTEMS FAS3000 series, packaged to meet the The FAS980 is also an excellent storage The FAS3000 series addresses the core needs of smaller installations. The FAS270 consolidation solution for large business requirements of the midrange enterprise scales to 56 disk drives and 16TB, and the applications and fi le serving. It scales to storage market, delivering a superb blend FAS250 squeezes up to 4TB in a single 672 disk drives and 100TB. of price, performance, and scalability— 3U enclosure. Both are easily upgraded and exceptional storage value—for to larger FAS systems. Storage Systems for Every Enterprise database applications, e-mail, and large- NetApp storage is deployed in the largest NETAPP SOFTWARE scale fi le sharing. Its compact, modular data centers, in small departments, and Data ONTAP Software Simplifi es design delivers integrated FC SAN, IP everywhere in between. NetApp FAS Data Management SAN (iSCSI), and NAS storage with a systems are key building blocks for open All NetApp FAS systems run the Data maximum capacity of 168TB in only two networked storage environments in enter- ONTAP operating system, which simplifi es 42U high cabinets. The FAS3020 and prises around the world, providing the data management and optimizes storage FAS3050 support both FC and SATA disk data availability and data access required utilization with a patented fi le-system drives and include onboard FC and Gigabit to keep business operations online and technology and features that enable Ethernet connections, PCI-X expansion productive. fl exible storage provisioning, superior slots, and remote LAN management. scalability, and concurrent block and fi le NETAPP FAS200 SERIES SYSTEMS access. Data ONTAP software integrates The FAS200 series provides departmental seamlessly into UNIX, Windows, and Web and remote offi ce storage for distributed environments and provides the foundation enterprise deployment. In addition, the for enterprise-wide storage and data FAS270 is a storage consolidation platform infrastructures supporting mission-critical for small to medium-sized data centers. business applications. FAS200 systems offer the same integrated block- and fi le-level data access and data protection capabilities as the FAS900 and Figure 2) FAS3050 system.