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NetApp FC SAN Solutions

Industry-leading efficiency, performance, and management to optimize your SAN and lower total cost of ownership
FC San: PaIn POInTS anD CHaLLEnGES As a professional Fibre Channel (FC) storage area network (SAN) administrator, you face the two-pronged challenge of growing data and shrinking budgets, while still having to adhere to stringent performance and availability commitments. Growing data means a burgeoning storage footprint, 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 further complicate matters, whether through organic growth or mergers and acquisitions, you manage a multivendor, heterogeneous SAN with an unwieldy matrix of management tools that are unique to each vendor and each piece of equipment. Do these challenges sound familiar? If so, then NetApp FC SAN solutions can help. THE SOLuTIOn With NetApp FC SAN solutions, you can double storage utilization, cut storage spending in half, and boost productivity across your entire business, while enjoying high performance and availability. Speaking of performance and availability, when tested against our competitors, NetApps award-winning FC SAN solutions show industry-leading performance. And NetApp MetroCluster provides continuous availability and uptime at half the cost of our competitors solutions.2 Our FC SAN solutions are also easy to manage: NetApp SANscreen allows you to maximize the value and efficiency of all of your existing storage investments (even EMC and HP storage) by giving you insight into your existing resource utilization across all of your SAN vendors. In this way, you can drive quick payback on all of your storage investmentsnot just the ones you made in NetApp. Lastly, even though this datasheet focuses on FC SAN, NetApp storage solutions are truly protocol agnostic. So the same storage you use for FC SAN can be used for iSCSI SAN and, when youre ready, for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). We enable you to decide which protocol is best for your company by building multiprotocol solutions that maximize your investments, so you can go further, faster. 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-efficient Snapshot and FlexClone technologies kEy BEnEFITS Increased storage efficiency and lowered total cost of ownership1 Lower capacity requirements by 50%. Improve utilization by 33%. Cut or delay capital expenses by buying only half the storage. Save 50% on data center power, space, and cooling costs. Proven performance and availability Support higher I/O rates, greater capacity, and faster provisioning. Support the increased demands of server virtualization. Provide continuous availability at half the cost and complexity of competitor solutions. Simplified management Reclaim underutilized resources. Manage heterogeneous storage environments with a unified view. Enable faster response and fewer errors. unified storage architecture Support all data types, access methods, protocols, and capacities. Maximize storage and training investments across all protocols.

nETaPP San SwITCH SuPPOrT netapp Partner vendor model # 200, 300, 3200, 3800, 3900, 4100, 4900, 5000, 5100, 5300, 12000, 24000, 48000, DCX, DCX-4S; 3016, 3032, 3216, 3232, 4300, 4500, 4400, 4700, 6064, 6140, 10000 (i10K), 8000, VA-40FC, 7500, 7800 MDS 9020, 9124, 9134, 9216A, 9216i, 9222i, 9120, 9140, 9148, 9506, 9509, 9513; Nexus 2148T, 2232PP, 2248TP, 5010, 5020, 5548 5600, 5602, 9000
Table 1) San switches supported by netapp.

nETaPP FC San PrODuCTS FaS6200/v6200 SErIES maximum FC ports (2, 4, 8 GB)* maximum Ethernet ports* maximum raw capacity (TB) maximum cache (GB)* 96 1GbE: 100, 10GbE: 48 2,880 192 FaS3200/v3200 SErIES 52 1GbE: 52, 10GbE: 24 1,920 32 FaS2000 SErIES 4 1GbE: 8 136 8

* Assumes active-active controller configuration where applicable.

Table 2) netapp San solutions range from entry level to high end.

help you avoid up to 80% of data duplication in the first place. With NetApps ability to deduplicate data on primary and secondary storage, you can eliminate up to 90% of redundant data, depending on your environment. And our industryrevolutionizing RAID-DP technology protects against double disk failure, allowing you to buy fewer redundant disks upfront. NetApps innovations in storage efficiency 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 for your products. All of these innovations help liberate your staff from routine tasks so they can spend time on more strategic projects and ultimately help lower your storage total cost of ownership. By maximizing storage efficiency, 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 efficient data center operations, NetApps FC SAN solutions are ahead of the curve and can help you directly

address these concerns of environmental stewardship and accountability without sacrificing performance or availability. LOwErInG TOTaL COST OF OwnErSHIP We certainly do not expect you to take our cost efficiency claims at face 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 of acquiring, deploying, operating, and managing storage for database applications. The results show that NetApp can help you lower your total cost of ownership by 39% to 62% 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 also experiencing the benefits of efficiency and performance firsthand. A German supplier of plants and equipment for the metallurgy industry, SMS Demag AG, saved 40% on operating costs with NetApp unified storage.4 The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General reclaimed 35% of its storage capacity with deduplication and reduced its energy usage by 40%.5 And Internethosting provider Go Daddy validated our performance claims by managing 4 times

the traffic load and 10 times the spike load on NetApp FC SAN equipmentwithout any downtime.6 Clearly, you can save money without sacrificing performance and availability, which means that you can have the best of both worlds: the highest performance at the lowest total cost of ownership. PrOvEn PErFOrmanCE anD avaILaBILITy Your FC SAN performance is even more important in the context of server virtualization. In server virtualization, multiple applications and OS instances are aggregated onto a single physical server, with each application and OS instance generating significant I/O traffic. The demand to support higher I/O rates, greater capacity, and faster 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 infrastructures, so you can protect your existing storage investments. When compared to our competitors, NetApp also delivers exceptional results, outperforming them by 233% as measured in IOPs in benchmark studies.7

With NetApp FC SAN solutions, you can do more with less: double storage utilization, cut storage spending in half, and boost productivity across your entire business, while enjoying high performance and availability.

NetApp FC SANs provide high reliability through redundant storage components and multiple redundant data paths. In fact, our field-measured reliability is greater than five 9s. As for availability, NetApp FC SAN solutions deliver the highest possible support and uptime for your missioncritical business applications.8 NetApp MetroCluster takes high availability even further, enabling you to offer continuous data availability, protecting your business-critical data whether you have a single data center or a campus/metropolitan environment. MetroCluster enables you to protect all new and existing data so you can automatically recover from a failure with no data loss, at half the cost and complexity of our competitors solutions. NetApps FC SAN storage performance and availability are critical factors that contribute to our being one of the fastest-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 failures in a SAN environment are not hardware or even software related,

but are founded in human error, having management tools that are simple and easy to use is crucial. High-quality storage management is the basis for unified 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 software that helps even the worlds largest IT organizations increase efficiencies and contain storage costs in their data centers. SANscreen improves the quality and efficiency of storage management with its real-time, multivendor, multiprotocol service-level views of 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: Reduce capital expenditures by identifying 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 SanSCrEEn HETErOGEnEOuS San SuPPOrT Support vendor NetApp EMC HP HDS IBM Engenio 3Par Sun Incipient Switch vendor Cisco Brocade McData QLogic Hosts vendor All VMware Device Agentless ESX 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.5, 4.0 Virtual Center 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.5 Device MDS and Nexus Series Brocade Switches McData Switches SANbox Series Device FAS/V-Series V-Max, Symmetrix/DMX, CLARiiON, Celerra XP, EVA USP, XP, AMS ESS Shark, DS Series, SVC, XIV Engenio InServ StorEdge NSP

Table 3) netapp Sanscreen supports heterogeneous San environments.

unIFIED STOraGE arCHITECTurE Truth be told, NetApp is protocol agnostic. Unlike other vendors, who have a different solution depending on the scale or function or protocol required, NetApp provides a single unified storage architecture. The same NetApp FC SAN storage also supports the other block protocols (iSCSI and FCoE) and both NAS protocols (CIFS and NFS). And if/when you are ready to move to Fibre Channel over Ethernet, NetApps multiprotocol support enables an easy transition. A February 2009 ESG report that performed hands-on evaluation and testing of NetApps FCoE support provided solid validation that, other than learning a few basic operations, There is nothing new to learn with FCoE.10 What are the advantages of a unified storage architecture? A unified architecture means that you can pool storage and enjoy the ability to share infrastructure, capacity, and space-saving technologies across all data. With an easy-to-use platform, NetApp users can adapt to the full range of data types, access methods, and capabilities required across a full spectrum of enterprise applications. In fact, NetApps V-Series even allows you to easily manage our competitors storageand still take advantage of the same storage efficiency technologies that native NetApp storage has to offer. And with the advent of technologies like server virtualization, backup and disaster recovery are even more challenging than they were before. So, it is vital to have data protection fully integrated at the storage level, with backup and recovery processes designed into the underlying data structure and consistent across multiple classes of data. Our unified 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-performance storage with unique data management software,

nETaPP FC San HOST SuPPOrT OS vEnDOr microsoft windows / Hyper-v vmware HBa Brocade Emulex QLogic Brocade Emulex QLogic QLogic Emulex muLTIPaTH MPIO NetApp Data ONTAP DSM Veritas DMP VMware HOST CLuSTEr MSCS, Veritas VCS MSCS, VirtualCenter (vMotion ) Oracle Clusterware Veritas VCS Veritas FSCFSRAC Red Hat Cluster Suite Sun Cluster Veritas VCS Oracle 10g RH Cluster Suite Veritas VCS Veritas SFCFSRAC Oracle 10g PowerHA VCS MC ServiceGuard Veritas VCS Novell Clusters OpenVMS

Oracle Linux

DM-MP Veritas DMP

Oracle Solaris

Native Emulex QLogic Brocade Emulex QLogic QLogic Emulex Native

MPxIO Veritas DMP DM-MP Veritas DMP

red Hat Linux

SuSE Linux IBm aIX

DM-MP MPIO Veritas DMP SANPath HP PVLinks Veritas DMP QLogic OpenVMS

HP HP-uX

Native Emulex QLogic Emulex

novell netware OpenvmS

Table 4) robust options for high-availability configurations using multipathing and clustering.

NetApp delivers FC SAN solutions that enable you to do more with less. Ultimately, your organization benefits from total cost of ownership savings, higher application uptime, simplified management, and maximized investments with our unified storage architecture. Contact your local sales representative today to learn what NetApp FC SAN solutions can do for you.

aBOuT nETaPP NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at HYPERLINK http://www.netapp.com www.netapp.com.

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