NetApp FAS2000 series for your Storage Solutions

NetApp technology is the ideal investment for your storage requirements now and in the future - that's why Phoenix Software recommends the NetApp FAS2000 series solutions to provide enterprise-class Fibre Channel architecture with powerful data protection capabilities that will out-perform rival iSCSI storage platforms and provide scalability for future demands.

The NetApp FAS2000 series is an economical storage system and NetApp's unique data management capabilities help the FAS2000 support lower TCO than other systems in its class.

FAS2000 systems provide a powerful range of features to help dramatically increase storage utilisation - a robust set of capabilities that are included with every FAS2000 system - plus optional add-on software packs for additional capabilities. Every FAS2000 system comes standard with the Data ONTAP 7G operating system and Base software pack that provides an unmatched set of data management features.

THE BASE SOFTWARE PACK

The Base software pack provides unique data protection capabilities and superior storage utilisation, including:

• NetApp Snapshot provides point-in-time images enabling you to perform near-instantaneous file-level or full data set recovery, with minimal performance overhead. Up to 255 snapshots per volume are supported
• Thin provisioning, where many applications share a common pool of free space on demand, prevents costly over-provisioning and time-consuming reconfiguration that are typical with other storage solutions
• Storage pooling, which coupled with thin provisioning enables storage utilisation up to 2X of traditional approaches and eliminates performance bottlenecks by distributing volumes over many spindles
• Unique low-overhead double-parity RAID-DP provides protection against two failures in a RAID group
• Deduplication enables you to store only one copy of each unique data object, substantially reducing capacity requirements
• Integrated support for tiered storage and SAN protocols to support FC SAN and/or IP SAN
• Comprehensive monitoring of system health and performance

FAS2000 SOFTWARE PACKS

In addition, FAS2000 software packs bring a broad range of compelling data management capabilities:

Foundation Pack provides automated provisioning and backup/recovery of a NetApp environment:

• Restore volumes or file systems of any size in seconds using Snapshot copies
• Implement policy-based automated provisioning, enabling storage to be provisioned much faster than with manual provisioning and with fewer errors
• Prepare primary storage for automated disk-to-disk backup. By copying only the individual data blocks that have changed since the last backup, both storage capacity and network bandwidth requirements are minimised compared to other approaches

Protection Pack provides powerful data protection capabilities for business continuance and backup/restore solutions:

• Replicate data across a global network to enable disaster recovery solutions or to centralise tape-based backups from multiple data centres
• Simplify replication-based activities using policy-based automation to automatically discover and protect new data. Simplifies management and makes sure that all data is protected
• Flexibly meet RTO/RPO requirements using a replication solution that is simple to deploy and manage
• Restore data from a secondary system in seconds
• Improve backup and restore speeds up to 92% compared to tape-based solutions
• Minimise both bandwidth storage capacity and network bandwidth requirements, as only changed blocks are backed up or replicated

Application Pack integrates with key business applications in order to simplify backup, recovery, replication, and cloning of application data:

• SnapManager products provide best-of-breed protection for key Microsoft applications including Exchange, SQL and SharePoint Server, as well as Oracle, SAP and VMware ESX
• Fast, simple, automated backup, recovery and cloning of application-consistent data
• Enable self-service data management for routine data management tasks, thus improving productivity and efficiency across the organisation
• Add storage capacity or resize volumes without interrupting applications
• Enable Exchange Server administrators to recover individual messages, attachments, or mailboxes in minutes instead of hours or days of manual effort

Advanced Pack provides advanced data management and compliance capabilities:

• Generate instant virtual clones of production data, while requiring minimal incremental disk space. Accelerates test/ dev and QA activities and reduces costs
• Provide flexibility to make sure of data permanence for primary or secondary storage in order to comply with various industry, corporate, or government regulations
• Enable flexible retention policies for archival and compliance solutions to meet internal and external requirements

Server Pack is specifically for VMware virtual server environments:

• Fast, simple, automated backup and recovery of VMware virtual server environments
• Enable self-service data management for routine data management tasks, improving productivity and efficiency across the organisation

FIND OUT MORE

For further information and to see just how affordable a NetApp FAS2000 system is, contact your Phoenix Account Manager on 0845 265 1265 or email info@phoenixs.co.uk

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NetApp Virtualisation Guarantee
NetApp guarantee that you will use at least 50% less storage for virtual environments compared to traditional storage.

Phoenix Software recommends NetApp FAS2000 series as the best storage platform for virtual infrastructures due to its high performance, high bandwidth architecture, and support for latest I/O technologies including 8GB Fibre Channel connectivity. NetApp FAS2000 series provides a unified storage platform and versatile I/O connectivity to support internal SAS (serial-attached SCSI) or SATA drives and simultaneous block and file service.

When you enable NetApp’s RAID-DP, deduplication, thin provisioning and SnapShot technologies within your virtual environment, virtualisation storage requirements will be reduced by at least 50% or NetApp will provide additional capacity to meet the shortfall at no additional charge.

To see how your storage savings add up, try NetApp’s storage efficiency calculator: www.secalc.com