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With powerful storage provisioning and data protection, NetApp® storage solutions from NetApp complement the manageability, utilization, and cost-saving benefits of VMware virtualization software. Unified storage solutions from NetApp enable powerful thin provisioning, simplified data protection and scalable and consistent I/O performance for all SAN and NAS protocols. Some of the key features of the NetApp storage virtualization solution include:

  • NetApp FlexVol™ technology enables IT organizations to create multiple flexible volumes on a large pool of disks and aggregate I/O across all physical disks on NFS, iSCSI or Fibre Channel. Users can dynamically allocate storage and add storage capacity as needed without downtime.
  • NetApp FlexClone® provides instant clones of VMs without impacting server resources and requiring additional storage capacity.
  • NetApp Snapshot™ allows VMware users to make fast and space-efficient backup copies of active data with negligible performance and storage overhead.
  • NetApp SnapMirror® Software protects data and accelerates recovery, by providing a simple, efficient way to replicate data between systems in multiple locations using multi-transport (IP and FC) and frequency choice (sync, semi-sync, and async) options while only transferring changed blocks.

NetApp storage systems offer powerful yet flexible provisioning capabilities that give IT storage specialists the ability to lower cost while meeting the capacity, utilization, and performance requirements of VMware environments.

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A server-to-storage virtualized infrastructure is an efficient and cost-effective way to manage your data center. NetApp virtualized storage solutions, used in conjunction with VMware, simplify data protection and expand the benefits of your virtualized applications—from improved flexibility and reduced provisioning times, to increased resource utilization and performance.

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