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2. FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud
 FlexPod™ with Microsoft® Private Cloud, an
integrated NetApp® and Cisco® solution for
Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track, is a pre-
validated Microsoft private cloud reference
implementation
 First Fast Track 2.0 Validated Design
− Fully integrated with System Center 2012 and
the Cloud Services Process Pack
− Based on FlexPod, an industry-leading
packaged data center solution
− The most scalable Hyper-V™ platform on the
market. Save 50% of storage capacity
guaranteed!
 Accelerates private cloud deployments at reduced
risk
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3. FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud
Validated with Citrix XenDesktop
 Citrix XenDesktop is the first validated workload on
FlexPod™ with Microsoft® Private Cloud
 First Fast Track 2.0 Validated Design
− Fully integrated with Microsoft System Center
2012 and Citrix XenDesktop 5.6
− Validated to run 2,000 virtual desktops
− The most scalable VDI solution on the market
− Save 50% of storage capacity, guaranteed!
 Accelerates VDI deployments at reduced risk
− Provision and manage large VDI environments
quickly and efficiently.
− Provision 2,000 VMs 25 times faster than with
traditional SAN
− All HW components are shipping now
− Reference implementation is available now
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4.  Observed an 80 percent storage savings in comparison to a
similar VDI environment without NetApp storage efficiencies.
 Provisioned a 2000 seat VDI environment 25 times faster than
standard provisioning methods utilizing PowerShell scripts and
the NetApp PowerShell Toolkit.
 Entire FlexPod VDI Solution hosted on NetApp FAS3240.
 FlashCache Bootstorm and Citrix PVS.
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5. Single Unified Architecture
 Tiered storage, from
mission critical to archival
 Common software, interface, and
management tools
 One architecture for
SAN and NAS storage
 Ability to consolidate file and block
storage on a single system
 Can be used for either primary or
secondary storage
iSCSI FC SMB NFS
Multiprotocol, Heterogeneous Environment
D / R Target
Application
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Regulatory
Compliance
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6. Dramatic Reductions in Storage Space
Deduplication
Saves up to 95% for full backups;
25% to 55% for most datasets
Virtual Clones (FlexClone®
)
Savings equal the size of the original
dataset minus blocks subsequently
changed in the clone
Thin Replication
Disk-to-disk data protection
saves up to 95%
Thin Provisioning
(NetApp® FlexVol®
)
20% to 33% typical savings
Snapshot™ Copies
NetApp Snapshot copies do not
require “copy” space,; they serve local
backup purposes, and deliver savings
of up to 80%
Double Parity RAID (RAID-DP®
)
Saves up to 46% versus mirrored
data or RAID 10
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up to
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7. Validated Enterprise Workloads
Secure Multi-Tenancy
Performance balanced server,
network and storage components
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• Step-by-step instructions for repeatable
high-quality deployments
• VMware, Microsoft, SAP, Red Hat, Citrix
• Wide range of resources available: validated
design, deployment, and solution guides
• 20+ validated designs
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8.  Documentation:
− http://www.netapp.com/microsoftsolutions
− http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_xd56
_flexpod.html
− http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports/tr-4058.html
− https://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/msenviro
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