NetApp Fibre Channel SAN Datasheet

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NetApp FC SAN SolutionsIndustry-leading efciency, perormance, and management to optimizeyour SAN and lower total cost o ownership

FC San: PaIn POInTS anD CHaLLEnGES

As a proessional Fibre Channel (FC) storage

area network (SAN) administrator, you ace

the two-pronged challenge o growing data

and shrinking budgets, while still having

to adhere to stringent perormance andavailability commitments. Growing data

means a burgeoning storage ootprint, which

requires ever more capital and operating

expenditures (power, space, and cooling) to

maintain. Shrinking budgets, on the other

hand, mean that those necessary capital and

operating expenditures are just not a reality.

In short, you must do more with the existing

resources you have. To urther complicate

matters, whether through organic growth

or mergers and acquisitions, you manage

a multivendor, heterogeneous SAN with

an unwieldy matrix o management tools

that are unique to each vendor and each

piece o equipment. Do these challengessound amiliar? I so, then NetApp® FC SAN

solutions can help.

THE SOLuTIOn

With NetApp FC SAN solutions, you can

double storage utilization, cut storage

spending in hal, and boost productivity

across your entire business, while enjoying

high perormance and availability. Speaking

o perormance and availability, when

tested against our competitors, NetApp’s

award-winning FC SAN solutions show

industry-leading perormance. And

NetApp MetroCluster provides continuous

availability and uptime at hal the cost o

our competitors’ solutions.2 Our FC SAN

solutions are also easy to manage: NetApp

SANscreen® allows you to maximize the

value and efciency o all o your existing

storage investments (even EMC and HP

storage) by giving you insight into your

existing resource utilization across all o

your SAN vendors. In this way, you can

drive quick payback on all o your storage

investments—not just the ones you made

in NetApp.

Lastly, even though this datasheet ocuses

on FC SAN, NetApp storage solutions are

truly protocol agnostic. So the same storage

you use or FC SAN can be used or IP SAN

(iSCSI) and, when you’re ready, or Fibre

Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). We enable

you to decide which protocol is best or your

company by building multiprotocol solutions

that maximize your investments, so you can

go urther, aster.

OPTImIzInG STOraGE EFFICIEnCy

With NetApp FC SAN storage, you can

maximize utilization, optimize storage space,

and reduce duplicate data. Capabilities

such as thin provisioning help you utilize all

available disk space, while space-efcient

Snapshot™ and FlexClone® technologies

kEy BEnEFITS

Icesed stoge efciec d

loeed totl cost o oeship1

• Lowercapacityrequirementsby

50%.• Improveutilizationby33%.

• Cutordelaycapitalexpensesby

buying only hal the storage.

• Save50%ondatacenterpower,

space, and cooling costs.

Poe peoce d ilbilit

• SupporthigherI/Orates,greater

capacity, and aster, provisioning.

• Supporttheincreaseddemandsof

server virtualization.

• Providecontinuousavailabilityat

hal the cost and complexity o

competitor solutions.

Siplifed mgeet

• Reclaimunderutilizedresources.

• Manageheterogeneousstorage

environments with a unifed view.

• Enablefasterresponseandfewer

errors.

uifed stoge chitecte

• Supportalldatatypes,access

methods, protocols, and capacities.

• Maximizestorageandtraining

investments across all protocols.



help you avoid up to 80% o data

duplication in the frst place. With NetApp’s

ability to deduplicate data on primary and

secondary storage, you can eliminate up

to 90% o redundant data, depending

on your environment. And our industry-

revolutionizingRAID-DP® technology

protects against double disk ailure, allowing

you to buy ewer redundant disks upront.

NetApp’s innovations in storage efciency

boost productivity across your business.

With NetApp, you can automate and

accelerate backup, recovery, provisioning,

and disaster recovery. Through rapid

provisioning, you can provision storage in

just 20 minutes versus 7 days, accelerating

new project deployment. With virtual cloning,

you can propel testing and development

and capture a better time to market or

your products. All o these innovations help

liberate your sta rom routine tasks so they

can spend time on more strategic projects

and ultimately help lower your storage total

cost o ownership.

By maximizing storage efciency, you can

also reduce operating costs such as power,

cooling, and space by 50%. With the U.S.

government and other governments around

the world mandating efcient data center

operations, NetApp’s FC SAN solutions are

ahead o the curve and can help you directly

address these concerns o environmental

stewardship and accountability without

sacrifcing perormance or availability.

LOwErInG TOTaL COST

OF OwnErSHIP

We certainly do not expect you to take

our cost efciency claims at ace value.

This is why we challenged independent

organizations like Oliver Wyman to

investigate our claims. We asked them to

compare NetApp against other leading

vendors in the areas o acquiring, deploying,

operating, and managing storage or

database applications. The results show

that NetApp can help you lower your total

costofownershipby39%to62%versus

leading storage vendors like HP and EMC in

typical enterprise database deployments.3

But analysts are not the only ones singing

our praises: Our FC SAN customers are alsoexperiencing the benefts o efciency and

perormance frsthand. A German supplier

o plants and equipment or the metallurgy

industry, SMS Demag AG, saved 40% on

operating costs with NetApp unifed storage.4

The Pennsylvania Ofce o the Attorney

Generalreclaimed35%ofitsstorage

capacity with deduplication and reduced

its energy usage by 40%.5 And Internet-

hosting provider Go Daddy validated our

perormance claims by managing 4 times

the trafc load and 10 times the spike load

on NetApp FC SAN equipment—without any

downtime.6

Clearly, you can save money without

sacrifcing perormance and availability,

which means that you can have the best oboth worlds: the highest perormance at the

lowest total cost o ownership.

PrOvEn PErFOrmanCE anD

avaILaBILITy

Your FC SAN perormance is even

more important in the context o server

virtualization. In server virtualization,

multiple applications and OS instances

are aggregated onto a single physical

server, with each application and OS

instancegeneratingsignicantI/Otrafc.

ThedemandtosupporthigherI/Orates,

greater capacity, and aster nondisruptive

provisioning is particularly high on storage

systems, so you need to choose storage

vendors wisely. To this end, NetApp

storage supports up to 8Gb Fibre Channel,

with backward compatibility to 4Gb and

2Gb inrastructures, so you can protect

your existing storage investments. When

compared to our competitors, NetApp also

delivers exceptional results, outperorming

themby233%asmeasuredinIOPsin

benchmark studies.7

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NetApp FC SANs provide high reliability

through redundant storage components

and multiple redundant data paths. In act,

our feld-measured reliability is greater

than fve 9s. As or availability, NetApp FC

SAN solutions deliver the highest possible

support and uptime or your mission-

critical business applications.8 NetApp

MetroCluster takes high availability even

urther, enabling you to oer continuous data

availability, protecting your business-critical

data whether you have a single data center

oracampus/metropolitanenvironment.

MetroCluster enables you to protect all new

and existing data so you can automatically

recover rom a ailure with no data loss,

at hal the cost and complexity o our

competitors’ solutions.

NetApp’s FC SAN storage perormance and

availability are critical actors that contribute

to our being one o the astest-growing FC

SAN storage vendors in the marketplace

today. We are not the only ones touting

our leadership in FC SAN: Our customers

gave NetApp FC SAN enterprise arrays the

highest marks in the Diogenes Lab-Storage

Magazine Quality Awards, rating us number

one overall (tied with EMC).9

SImPLIFIED manaGEmEnT

Since most ailures in a SAN environment

are not hardware or even sotware related,

With NetApp FC SAN solutions, you can domore with less: double storage utilization,cut storage spending in hal, and boost

productivity across your entire business,while enjoying high perormance andavailability.

nETaPP SanSCrEEn HETErOGEnEOuS

San SuPPOrT

Sppot

vedo Deice

NetApp FAS Series

EMC Symmetrix/DMX,CLARiiON

HP XP,EVA

HDS USP,XP,AMS

IBM ESSShark,DSSeries,SVC

Engenio Engenio

3Par InServ

Sun StorEdge

Incipient NSP

Sitch

vedo Deice

Cisco MDS Series

Brocade Brocade Switches

McData McData Switches

QLogic SANBox Series

Hosts

vedo Deice

All Agentless

VMware ESX3.0,3.0.1,3.0.2,3.5;

VirtualCenter2.0.1,2.0.2,2.5

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heteogeeos San eioets.

but are ounded in human error, having

management tools that are simple and

easy to use is crucial. High-quality storage

management is the basis or unifed

operations that reduce capital costs,

operating expenses, and outage risk, and

companies like yours are bringing these

capabilities into your main data center

operations environment.

NetApp SANscreen is agentless,

heterogeneous sotware that helps even

the world’s largest IT organizations increase

efciencies and contain storage costs in

their data centers. SANscreen improves

the quality and efciency o storage

management with its real-time, multivendor,

multiprotocol service-level views o your

storage environment. That means you can

manage storage as an end-to-end service—

and integrate it into the entire IT service

delivery chain.

With SANscreen, you can:

Reducecapitalexpendituresbyidentifying•

and reclaiming unused storage resources.

Improve service quality by proactively•

discovering the storage services delivered

to applications.

Manage and audit changes over time to•

enable technical review, compliance, and

IT governance.

Accelerate migrations and consolidations.•



NetApp creates innovative storage and

data management solutions that accelerate

business breakthroughs and deliver

outstanding cost efciency. Discover our

passion or helping companies around the

world go urther, aster at netapp.com.www.netapp.com

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unIFIED STOraGE arCHITECTurE

Truth be told, NetApp is protocol agnostic.

Unlike other vendors, who have a dierent

solution depending on the scale or unction

or protocol required, NetApp provides a

single unifed storage architecture. The same

NetApp FC SAN storage also supports the

other block protocols (iSCSI and FCoE)

and both NAS protocols (CIFS and NFS).

Andif/whenyouarereadytomoveto

Fibre Channel over Ethernet, NetApp’s

multiprotocol support enables an easy

transition. A February 2009 ESG report that

perormed hands-on evaluation and testing

o NetApp’s FCoE support provided solid

validation that, other than learning a ew

basic operations, “There is nothing new to

learn with FCoE.”10

What are the advantages o a unifed storage

architecture? A unifed architecture means

that you can pool storage and enjoy the

ability to share inrastructure, capacity,

and space-saving technologies across

all data. With an easy-to-use platorm,

NetApp users can adapt to the ull range

o data types, access methods, and

capabilities required across a ull spectrum

o enterprise applications. In act, NetApp’s

V-Seriesevenallowsyoutoeasilymanage

our competitors’ storage—and still take

advantage o the same storage efciency

technologies that native NetApp storage has

to oer.

And with the advent o technologies like

server virtualization, backup and disaster

recovery are even more challenging than

they were beore. So, it is vital to have data

protection ully integrated at the storage

level, with backup and recovery processes

designed into the underlying data structure

and consistent across multiple classes o

data. Our unifed storage architecture is what

gets you there, and ultimately enables you to

do more with less.

TakE yOur San TO THE nExT LEvEL

By combining high-perormance storage

with unique data management sotware,

NetApp delivers FC SAN solutions that

enable you to do more with less. Ultimately,

your organization benefts rom total cost

o ownership savings, higher application

uptime, simplifed management, and

maximized investments with our unifed

storage architecture. Contact your local

sales representative today to learn what

NetApp FC SAN solutions can do or you.

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media.netapp.com/documents/city-of-hartford.pdf,http://media.netapp.

com/documents/SDDPC.pdf,http://media.netapp.com/documents/

tastybaking.pd

2 MercerManagementConsulting,“CostandRiskManagementin

DisasterRecovery:ITDecision-MakerPerspectivesonEMC,HP,and

Network Appliance,” January 2007.3

http://media.netapp.com/documents/ar1038.pdf4 http://media.netapp.com/documents/sms-demag.pdf

5 http://media.netapp.com/documents/penn-oag.pdf

6 http://media.netapp.com/documents/go-daddy.pdf

7 SPC-1benchmarks,January29,2008,http://www.storageperformance.

org

8 FAS Storage Systems: Laying the Foundation or Application Availability,

IDC, Feb. 2008

9 www.netapp.com/us/company/news/news-rel-20080819.html

10 http://media.netapp.com/documents/esg-lab-validation-report.pdf

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