SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - August 31, 2009) - VMworld 2009 -- NetApp (
NASDAQ:
NTAP)
introduced new products and enhancements that uniquely complement VMware®
vSphere™ 4 and VMware View™ to help customers optimize their desktop
and cloud computing environments.
- Virtual Storage Console -- Virtual Storage Console is a plug-in
for VMware vCenter™ Server that enables IT administrators to manage and
monitor NetApp® storage in VMware vSphere 4 environments, the
industry-leading virtualization platform. Now customers can improve control
of their cloud environments and centrally manage their server and storage
infrastructure.
- SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure -- SnapManager® for
Virtual Infrastructure integrates with VMware environments and automates
data protection polices for NetApp Snapshot™ and SnapMirror® features.
Customers can now leverage an easy-to-use management tool for virtual
machine backup and recovery and minimize backup time using NetApp Snapshot.
Additionally, customers can instantly recover a datastore, virtual machine,
virtual machine disk, or an individual file within a virtual guest.
- Rapid Cloning Utility -- Rapid Cloning Utility, a vCenter
plug-in, simplifies the way administrators clone VMware virtual machines
and datastores, providing greater ease through automation. In conjunction
with NetApp FlexClone®, a single image can be replicated hundreds of
times in minutes while using almost no additional storage capacity. NetApp
has also expanded support to Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN, giving customers
greater choice in deploying the Rapid Cloning Utility across a range of
storage environments and protocols.
Today's announcement further highlights NetApp's tight integration with the
VMware platform, which already includes secure multi-tenancy with NetApp
MultiStore® for secure partitioning of storage resources; NetApp Data
Motion™, to move data non-disruptively across storage and server systems
to enhance availability for both internal and external cloud customers; and
NetApp MetroCluster, with new and unique capabilities for VMware High
Availability (HA) to provide applications with continuous access to data.
NetApp Virtualization Quick Start Bundles Speed Virtualization
Deployment
In addition to today's product news, NetApp also introduced new
Virtualization Quick Start Bundles to speed deployment with integrated
storage, software, and networking components. The journey to a fully
virtualized environment requires careful planning. With Virtualization
Quick Start Bundles, NetApp has made it easier than ever before to rapidly
deploy best-practice configurations for VMware vSphere 4 that include
NetApp storage systems and software, Cisco Nexus network switches, and
NetApp Professional Services to eliminate the guesswork when it comes to
architecting the right solution. This POD-based design approach enables
customers to easily scale incrementally to meet ever-changing business
needs. Customers looking to deploy virtual desktops or virtualize Exchange,
SQL® Server, SharePoint®, or any general-purpose application can get up
and running quickly with confidence that they've made the right choice.
"VMware is at the forefront of helping customers simplify the management of
data centers to enable cloud computing and the delivery of IT as a service,
for which the provisioning, monitoring, and protection of storage are
critical components," said Parag Patel, vice president, Alliances, VMware.
"Through integration with NetApp technologies and solutions, our joint
customers can create flexible pools of compute, network, and storage
resources that can be provisioned as needed to make IT as a service a
reality."
"Just as VMware vSphere 4 is the foundation for cloud computing, our
customers are turning to NetApp as the storage platform of choice for
building their cloud infrastructures," said Patrick Rogers, vice president
of Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "NetApp uniquely complements VMware
vSphere 4 and VMware View to enable customers to overcome the boundaries of
conventional data center architectures. Our long-standing partnership with
VMware is helping customers maximize efficiency and improve data
availability in their virtual environments. Our tight integration with
VMware will continue to change the landscape of today's data centers and
provide our customers a path to cloud computing."
Additional Resources
A joint
NetApp and
VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices technical report is now available
documenting recommended implementation guidelines for VMware vSphere 4 and
NetApp systems. In addition, a
VMware white paper is available for Exchange Server
deployment on VMware vSphere 4 and NetApp that provides performance results
and recommended configurations.
For customers interested in NetApp MetroCluster and VMware HA, a new NetApp
technical report is available that provides best practices for deploying
jointly tested and supported highly available storage and server
configurations for VMware vSphere 4 when business continuity is required.
The technical report will be available in the NetApp library at
http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports.html.
Further guidance on how to successfully design and architect a virtualized
environment for Microsoft applications is now available at
http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3785.pdf. This new Reference
Architecture Design Guide illustrates how to virtualize Exchange, SQL
Server, and Sharepoint on VMware vSphere 4, NetApp unified storage, and
Cisco Nexus Unified Fabric.
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