NetApp Data clustered ONTAP offers a unified scale-out storage solution for an adaptable, always-on storage infrastructure to accommodate today's virtualized infrastructures.  For service providers, each customer maps to a separate Vserver on a storage cluster; this is the key to our multi-tenant environment and enables many of our key capabilities. Come and hear this intelligent, immortal, and infinite storage technology from NetApp. 

1. Clustered ONTAP for
Data Center
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#NetAppSynergy

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Traditional Storage Infrastructure
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 Inflexible capacity silos
 Complexity at large scale
Windows®
 Performance bottleneck
 Insufficient availability
Linux®
Cluster UNIX®
Future
Doesn’t Keep Up with Infrastructure Demands

3. Better Scalability and Flexibility
with clustered ONTAP
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Clustered Data ONTAP 8.1.2
vFilervFilervFilervFilervFilervFilervFilervFilervFilerVserver Vserver Vserver Vserver Vserver Vserver Vserver Vserver
Single system scales up to 24 nodes
 Nondisruptive operations
 Keep adding 1000s of users without downtime
 Operational simplicity, flexibility
OS,
Standard Apps
Citrix
XenDesktop
Desktone
VMware View

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The Logical Storage Container: Vserver
 Simplifies management:
− Compared to individual volume mount
points or LUN mappings
− Especially in large environments
 Is easily modified to meet changing
business needs
 Seamlessly grows or shrinks; can
scale to many petabytes
 Includes an application view that is
unchanged as data moves
 Provides access to any data from
anywhere
Data
Network
A1
HA Pair
A
A1 A2 A3
B2
B1
4
A2 A3 A
Vserver
Cluster
Interconnect
B1 B2B0
B0
Vserver

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Data
Network
Cluster
Interconnect
HA Pair
Transparent Data Mobility
 Move volumes from one aggregate to
another:
− Independence of source and
destination aggregate type
− Data moved within a Vserver
 Data access is unchanged:
− Eliminates need for volume remounts
and client changes
− LUN mappings are consistent
 No impact to clients and applications;
cutover is within NAS and SAN
timeouts
B2
B1
B1 B2
A
A1 A2 A3
5
A3 AA2
VserverVserver
A1
B0
B0

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Benefits
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 Run your business
24x7x365
 Eliminate planned
downtime
 Get ahead of market
changes
 Dynamically adjust to
changes in business
requirements
 Grow your business,
not your IT expenses
 Massively scale
infrastructure with
existing IT staff
Nondisruptive
Operations
On-Demand
Flexibility
Operational
Efficiency

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