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A virtualized infrastructure from servers to storage maximizes utilization, performance, resiliency, and ROI.

The growing use of x86-based servers running single-instance, data-intensive applications often results in server sprawl and a dramatic increase in dedicated, vastly underutilized assets that demand more resources to manage, provision, and maintain. These demands, combined with baseline requirements for 24x7 availability, more granular data protection, and pressure to improve efficiency and reduce costs, mean that IT professionals are increasingly looking to the power of server virtualization to cost effectively increase the utilization, flexibility, availability, and manageability of their data centres.

Although customers can experience dramatic improvements in server utilization and manageability, these benefits place a much higher demand on storage subsystems to support higher I/O rates, greater capacity, and faster nondisruptive provisioning. Failure to consider cost-effective storage optimization in the design and deployment of a server virtualization infrastructure can simply transfer costs from servers to the storage infrastructure. To maximize the benefits of your IT infrastructure, NetApp is partnering with VMware to offer solutions and best practices for the design of a virtualized infrastructure from servers to storage, with storage solutions that can deliver:

• Scalable and consistent I/O performance for all ESX protocols (NFS, iSCSI, and FCP)
• Flexible, rapid, simple, and cost-efficient provisioning and data management solutions
• Best-in-class virtualized storage for thin provisioning of heterogeneous storage environments

The benefits of VMware server virtualization capabilities are uniquely complemented by NetApp storage across NAS, FC, and IP SANs. This server-to-storage virtualized infrastructure makes utility computing real and affordable for the enterprise.

Lower Costs Simplified Management Increased Flexibility and Utilization VMware (Servers) Reduce hardware costs by 30% to 50% Reduce operations costs by 70% to 80% Consolidation ratios of 10:1 to 20:1 Optimized to run all major OSs Provisioning time reduced from days to minutes Utilization rates increase by 45% to 75% NetApp (Storage) Proven lowest TCO in the industry Thin provisioning: buy what you use Manage 2 to 3 times more storage than competitors Unified software and usage: FC, iSCSI, NFS Fast ESX backups and restores using minimal disk Provisioning times reduced 40% with no impact on servers Deduplication provides up to 95% savings in storage

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