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NETAPP UNIVERSITY

Introduction to NetApp Products

Module 2: NetApp Consolidation and Virtualization

Solutions

Date: 17JAN2012


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

MODULE 2:

MODULE OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................... 4MODULE OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................................ 4WINDOWS STORAGE CONSOLIDATION ............................................................................................... 4NETAPP TECHNOLOGIES FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS .... 5NETAPP TECHNOLOGIES FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS .... 5THE BENEFITS OF EFFICIENCY IT ........................................................................................................ 6RAID-DP TECHNOLOGY .......................................................................................................................... 6SNAPSHOT TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................................................... 7THIN PROVISIONING ............................................................................................................................... 8THIN PROVISIONING: FLEXSHARE TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................. 8THIN REPLICATION ................................................................................................................................. 9VIRTUAL COPIES: FLEXCLONE VOLUMES .......................................................................................... 9FLEXCACHE TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................. 10NETAPP DEDUPLICATION .................................................................................................................... 10NETAPP DATA COMPRESSION ........................................................................................................... 11NETAPP DATA COMPRESSION AND DEDUPLICATION .................................................................... 11SATA DRIVES AND FLASH CACHE ..................................................................................................... 11MANAGEABILITY ................................................................................................................................... 12VIRTUAL STORAGE CONSOLE ............................................................................................................ 12SNAPMANAGER FOR HYPER-V ........................................................................................................... 13APPLIANCEWATCH PRO ...................................................................................................................... 13MULTISTORE SOFTWARE .................................................................................................................... 14NETAPP: THE STORAGE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD ....................................................................... 15LEARNING ACTIVITY INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 16MODULE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. 16


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MODULE 2: NETAPP CONSOLIDATION AND VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTIONS

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PAGE TITLE MODULE OVERVIEW

TRANSCRIPT

Microsoft Windows and virtualized environments continue to grow at an exponential rate

and can provide storage administrators with a new set of complex and labor-intensivechallenges. NetApp technologies offer several ways to meet these challenges.This

module describes the NetApp storage-efficiency technologies that help to reduce the

need for more storage and the NetApp technologies that facilitate management of these

growing and complex environments.

This module requires approximately 45 minutes.

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PAGE TITLE MODULE OBJECTIVES

TRANSCRIPT

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

Identify the key NetApp products that are part of the Windows consolidation and

virtualization solutions

Describe how the NetApp technologies help to increase storage efficiency

Explain how NetApp is the storage foundation for cloud

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PAGE TITLE WINDOWS STORAGE CONSOLIDATION

TRANSCRIPT

The more storage demands grow, the more businesses must reassess their

infrastructure strategies. The traditional approach-deploying more systems for each

particular application-results in islands of stranded assets that become difficult and time-

consuming to manage, are poorly utilized, and are expensive to operate. Systems

administrators become mired in complexity and spend their days on routine and

repetitive management tasks. These environments can no longer scale and businesses

can't afford more people and resources to keep pace with data growth.

The NetApp Windows Storage Consolidation enables businesses to create a common

storage pool that can be networked and shared across a diverse set of applications witha common group of management processes. NetApp takes businesses beyond simple

multiprotocol storage to integrated data management and data protection, support for all

tiers of storage, quality of service, and other elements, all in a single platform.


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PAGE TITLE

NETAPP TECHNOLOGIES FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND VIRTUALIZED

ENVIRONMENTS

TRANSCRIPT

Virtualized servers and desktops are the foundation of a virtual infrastructure; however,

to take advantage of the virtualization, network storage becomes a critical part of the

overall solution. Server virtualization has set the stage for those who are rethinking how

they design and implement their IT solutions. Whether a business is looking for new

ways to lower cost, improve scalability, or improve SLAs, integrating storage as part of

the overall solution enables businesses to:

Bring products and services to market sooner

Scale to accommodate growth

Save up to 50% on storage-cooling costsDesktop virtualization allows

businesses to deploy and manage desktop environments and applications

centrally.

Administrator scan provide user access to a virtual desktop over standard networkinfrastructure without affecting users' levels of control over their desktop environments.

Network storage is also critical to the success of these deployments.

Because NetApp solutions provide the best cost efficiency, manageability, and

operational efficiency, these solutions are the virtualized infrastructure platform of choice.

The NetApp technology differentiators include:

The NetApp Unified Storage Architecture

Storage-efficiency technologies

Scalability

Secure multi-tenancyNetApp partners with the best virtualization companies,

including VMware ESX, Microsoft, and Citrix.

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PAGE TITLE

NETAPP TECHNOLOGIES FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND VIRTUALIZED

ENVIRONMENTS

TRANSCRIPT

The NetApp Windows Consolidation and Optimization solution helps organizations to get

the full benefit of virtualization and IT modernization by:

Reducing IT infrastructure costs by up to 50%

Simplifying management with up to 60% management-overhead savings through

tools that are integrated with a Windows environment

Improving the reliability of data protection and availability without compromising

the protection of business-critical data

Easily scaling with the ability to respond quickly to business changeClick on

each benefit to learn more about it.


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PAGE TITLE THE BENEFITS OF EFFICIENCY IT

TRANSCRIPT

Data growth is inevitable; however, data growth does not have to mean storage chaos.

Blindly adding more hardware may help a situation temporarily but can lead to more

complexity and many other problems later. NetApp storage-efficiency technologies storethe maximum amount of data for the lowest possible cost; retain data on disks for longer

periods of time; and reduce data-center power, cooling, and space costs. NetApp has

eight primary areas of focus to help to achieve true storage efficiency:

RAID-DP technology

Snapshot technology

Thin provisioning

Thin replication

Virtual cloning

Deduplication

Data compression

SATA drives with Flash Cache

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PAGE TITLE RAID-DP TECHNOLOGY

TRANSCRIPTWhen a storage system employs a single-parity RAID protection scheme, data is at high

risk. You cannot safely rely on any single disk not to fail during a RAID reconstruction. As

ever larger disk drives are used to store ever more critical data, resiliency becomes

paramount. NetApp RAID-DP technology provides protection against dual-drive failures

at a fraction of the capacity that is required by RAID mirroring techniques. RAID-DP

technology is a standard feature on all NetApp storage systems. It delivers 46% capacity

savings over RAID 10 mirroring and allows the use of lower-cost, higher-capacity SATA

disks for applications.


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PAGE TITLE SNAPSHOT TECHNOLOGY

TRANSCRIPT

Another data-protection feature of Data ONTAP software is its Snapshot technology.

Snapshot copies are online, read-only backups of a volume that can be created quickly

and that typically use little disk space. Snapshot copies of a volume are not full copies of

the volume. Rather, they are point-in-time "thin" copies that initially take up no space and

begin to use storage only as the volume begins to change. Because additional storage is

used only incrementally as a volume changes over time, many Snapshot copies of a

volume can be retained for a long period with little additional storage being used.

When initially created, each Snapshot copy comprises pointers to the blocks of storage

of the volume. As changes are made to the volume, new blocks are written to disk for

those changes while old blocks are retained to be pointed at by the Snapshot copies.

Thus, the contents of the Snapshot copies never change. The more the volume changes,

the more blocks are added but the original blocks that are pointed at by the Snapshot

copy remain on disk. Only when a Snapshot copy is deleted are those original blocks

possibly cleared as long as no other Snapshot copies still point to them.

A common practice is for each volume to have Snapshot copies automatically created

every hour, with a rolling window of hourly Snapshot copies being retained at all times,along with some daily and weekly copies. With this approach, if users must recall files

that were deleted or changed within the last hour, they go back only to the previous

hour's Snapshot copy to get the files. Likewise, if they must go back a day or a week,

they can pull the changes from the last daily or weekly Snapshot copy.


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PAGE TITLE THIN PROVISIONING

TRANSCRIPT

In the traditional storage-provisioning model, storage space is allocated beyond current

needs in anticipation of a growing need for it. As a result, the utilization rate is low. Large

amounts of storage space are paid for but may never be used.

Thin provisioning is a way of optimizing the utilization of available storage. It relies on a

storage systems ability to allocate storage dynamically and as needed. With thin

provisioning, storage-capacity utilization efficiency can be driven up nearly 100% with

little administrative overhead. Organizations can purchase less storage capacity up front,

defer storage-capacity upgrades in line with actual business usage, and save the

operating costs (electricity and floor space) that are associated with keeping unused disk

capacity spinning. Added benefits of thin provisioning include reduced consumption of

electricity, smaller hardware space requirements, and reduced heat generation

compared with traditional storage systems.

NetApp provides thin provisioning through the use of flexible volumes and the FlexShare

tool.

The flexible volumes can be managed independently of the storage beneath them. This

layer of abstraction allows FlexVol volumes to run at nearly 100% capacity utilizationbecause, if the volume runs out of space, it can be dynamically grown by using space

from its aggregate. Likewise, if a volume is consistently running at 20% utilization, space

can be dynamically removed from it and reallocated to other volumes that need that

space.

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PAGE TITLE THIN PROVISIONING: FLEXSHARE TECHNOLOGY

TRANSCRIPT

The FlexShare tool gives administrators the ability to leverage existing infrastructure and

increase processing utilization without sacrificing the performance of critical business

applications. With the use of the FlexShare tool, administrators can confidently

consolidate multiple applications and data sets on a single storage system. With the

FlexShare tool, administrators can prioritize applications based on how critical the

applications are to the business.

The FlexShare feature of the Data ONTAP operating system allows an administrator to

prioritize the Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) file-system processing based on

volume and on whether the request is a client request or an internal WAFL operation.

For example, if the data on a particular volume of a NetApp storage system must be

given preferential treatment for its reads and writes when multiple volumes are being hit

with requests at the same time, the FlexShare feature can be turned on and that volumecan be given a higher priority than other volumes. A similar prioritization can be done

between client requests such as those from NFS and CIFS clients and system requests

such as those for SnapMirror software, SnapRestore technology, and NDMP operations.


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PAGE TITLE THIN REPLICATION

TRANSCRIPT

Thin replication refers to a method of disk-to-disk replication whereby after an initial

baseline copy of a volume is created, all subsequent replications are performed only for

the changed or incremental data. "Thin" refers to the relatively small amount of

bandwidth that is needed to transfer those incremental changes.

SnapMirror software replicates NetApp data to one or more NetApp storage systems and

incrementally updates that mirrored data, which keeps it available and current.

SnapMirror software allows data to be mirrored asynchronously, synchronously, or semi-

synchronously, based on how up-to-date you want your mirrored data to be and how

quickly you want an application to receive an acknowledgment that the data was written.

"Cascading" allows mirrors to be sources for other mirrors, rather than all mirrors being

replicated from one data source.

SnapVault software is a disk and IP-based alternative to tape backups. SnapVault

software provides block-level incremental backups of data from NetApp storage to other

NetApp storage systems. The read-only copies of data are created and kept up-to-date

more quickly and more reliably than tape backups are. SnapVault backups can be taken

as often as hourly, which, if done to tape, is expensive and time-consuming. If tapebackups are still needed, they can be created directly from the SnapVault "secondary"

system.

Snapshot technology allows many Snapshot copies of the data on the SnapVault

secondary to be retained inexpensively.

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PAGE TITLE VIRTUAL COPIES: FLEXCLONE VOLUMES

TRANSCRIPT

A FlexClone volume is a logical read-write copy of a FlexVol volume. Like a Snapshot

copy, when a FlexClone volume is first created, it shares all blocks of storage with the

FlexVol volume and, thus, takes up no space. As changes are made to the original

FlexVol volume, blocks are added while the FlexClone volume still points to the original

blocks. Unlike Snapshot copies, FlexClone copies are read-write entities and can

change, so, as changes are made to the FlexClone volume, blocks are added. The

FlexClone volume can "split" from the original volume at any time, which causes it to

become a complete copy that shares no blocks with the original FlexVol volume.

A common use for this technology is an application test and development environment

that uses production databases. Imagine a large enterprise software-development firm

that performs active development on the production database. The firm is forced to

create multiple copies of that database for multiple development and testing projects. Notonly do these additional copies consume significant space, they take a significant

amount of time to create. With FlexClone technology, when a business needs a duplicate

copy for either development or testing, it simply creates FlexClone volumes, which are

completely transparent to their users.


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PAGE TITLE FLEXCACHE TECHNOLOGY

TRANSCRIPT

As the name implies, the FlexCache storage device is a storage-caching solution. It

allows the most frequently read data from "origin" NetApp storage-system FlexVol

volumes to be cached by-and then served locally from-FlexCache volumes on otherNetApp storage systems. When NFS clients perform reads, the data is served from a

FlexCache volume whenever possible. Typically, the FlexCache device is used to bring

remote data "closer" to its destination, which shortens storage-response times.

FlexCache volumes are also used to distribute and reduce the read workload on the

origin system and volumes, which allows those origin systems to concentrate on

servicing write requests.

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PAGE TITLE NETAPP DEDUPLICATION

TRANSCRIPT

NetApp deduplication improves storage efficiency by finding identical blocks of data and

replacing them with references to a single shared block. The same block of data can

belong to several files or LUNs or it can appear repeatedly within the same file. When

data is first written, a small digital "fingerprint" is saved in a separate, fingerprint file.

When the deduplication function starts, it searches the fingerprint file for matching

fingerprints. If a match is found, the corresponding data blocks are compared byte by

byte to verify an exact match. If an exact match is found, the original block is retained

and the redundant block is marked as free.

The deduplication process runs as a low-priority background process and can be run

manually or by using a schedule. The process also runs automatically when a certainamount of new data has arrived (20% by default). Depending on the type of data, the

deduplication storage savings ratio may reach as high as 20 to 1.


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PAGE TITLE NETAPP DATA COMPRESSION

TRANSCRIPT

Data compression is the process of reducing the physical capacity that is required to

store data on a FlexVol volume by compressing data blocks. Data compression can be

used for primary, secondary, and archive storage and is completed either inline or on a

schedule. This process is transparent to applications, which means that application

awareness is not needed. Users can compress pre-existing data.

Inline compression begins as a file is written into a volume with data compression

enabled. It is broken up into a 32-KB compression group and fingerprints are created for

data as it is written. The largest repeating pattern within a "compression group" is

identified and replaced and this process is repeated until no more repeating patterns

exist. Each compression group is analyzed to determine if data compression can achieve

at least 25% capacity savings.

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PAGE TITLE NETAPP DATA COMPRESSION AND DEDUPLICATION

TRANSCRIPT

Data compression and deduplication work together to optimize storage space savings

further. With compression and deduplication enabled, users see an immediate space

savings (from compression) and cumulative savings (from postprocess deduplication).

Compression can reduce the footprint of the initial data that is written to disk.

Deduplication removes duplicate WAFL blocks once the data has been written to disk.

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PAGE TITLE SATA DRIVES AND FLASH CACHE

TRANSCRIPT

The combination of SATA drives and Flash Cache further optimizes your NetApp storage

infrastructure by increasing performance and capacity and reducing cost.

The combination of these two hardware products:

Provides maximum flexibility with large storage pools

Leverages dynamic and policy-based performance tuning

Provides the same performance at half the price

Provides up to 50% more capacity

Consumes up to 66% less power

Requires up to 59% less rack space


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PAGE TITLE MANAGEABILITY

TRANSCRIPT

In a traditional IT organization, application and server administrators call upon the

storage administrator to accommodate even the most routine requests for storage

services. The storage administrator acts as a help desk, troubleshooter, and recovery

facilitator while trying to concentrate on higher-value storage-management activities.

The NetApp OnCommand suite of management products makes the IT administrator

self-sufficient, which leads to greater productivity and greater flexibility. This is

accomplished by having the storage administrator retain control of policies and role-

based access while enabling other administrators to perform functions such as

provisioning and data recovery.

Storage administrators can focus their time on high-value activities and spend less time

on help-desk-type activities while they increase the utilization of their storage from 35%

to 70% or higher. Enhanced productivity of people and assets translates to a better TCO.

The specific products that are associated with the OnCommand family are discussed in

the next module of this course.

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PAGE TITLE VIRTUAL STORAGE CONSOLE

TRANSCRIPT

With Virtual Storage Console (VSC), users can streamline and automate the virtual

machine (VM) backup process. The keystone is the NetApp Snapshot technology, which

enables users to create point-in-time copies of VMs or entire data stores and then

restore from these backup copies at any level of granularity simply and quickly when

required. This is all done on NetApp storage systems, which frees servers to run

applications, not backups.

VSC simplifies backup and recovery management by allowing the virtual infrastructure

administrator to "set it and forget it." For example, administrators can:

Schedule a postbackup script to send the latest backup to tape

Set a time-based or number-based copy-retention period

Replicate data after every backup to ensure that the business is disaster-

recovery ready

Schedule backups at the data-store level so that all VMs that are provisioned

within that data store are automatically protected

VSC enables quick and easy recovery of VMware VMs. Users simply select the desiredrecovery point that is stored on disk to rapidly restore the VM. VSC also streamlines

remote replication for automated, rapid disaster recovery. Replication from the primary

system to the disaster-recovery site can be automatically triggered immediately following

a backup and, in the event of a disaster, the Snapshot copy at the disaster-recovery site

can be rapidly promoted to a production copy.


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PAGE TITLE SNAPMANAGER FOR HYPER-V

TRANSCRIPT

SnapManager for Hyper-V (SMHV) enables users to group VMs into data sets and apply

standard backup policies across entire groups. As new VMs are deployed, they are

automatically identified within the SMHV dashboard. Any VMs without a backup policy

are flagged. Users can easily define retention schemes for keeping backups available on

disk and even automate tap offload by specifying custom scripts to run before or after a

Snapshot copy is created.

SMHV leverages the unique NetApp Snapshot point-in-time copy technology to offload

backups from host servers to the NetApp storage system and eliminate backup

bottlenecks. Backups of Hyper-V VMs can be made at any time of day, as frequently as

desired, in a matter of seconds. Because only incremental changes are stored, Snapshot

copies use little storage, which allows more backups to be cost-effectively kept on disk

for rapid, granular recovery.

Additionally, because SMHV uses the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

integration, the backups that it creates are Microsoft-application-aware. This moves all

data out of memory and onto disk before a Snapshot copy is performed, which ensures

that the application backups are recorded in a consistent state. The backup processcovers the application binaries, the logs, and the application data, which in turn enables

the restores to be that much faster and to return to a known state.

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PAGE TITLE APPLIANCEWATCH PRO

TRANSCRIPT

OnCommand plug-ins for VMware and Microsoft provide access to OnCommand control

and automation features from those respective management frameworks. For example,

ApplianceWatch PRO integrates with Microsoft System Center. It allows administrators

to view, monitor, and manage NetApp storage systems from within their current system-

management environments. ApplianceWatch PRO enables Microsoft Windows

administrators to monitor and manage NetApp storage systems by using their existing

management tools and skills. When combined with Microsoft Operation Manager

software, ApplianceWatch PRO monitors NetApp storage systems by interpreting SNMP

traps from the systems. It also provides access to a storage system's existing Web-

based management tools. Included in ApplianceWatch PRO is ApplianceWatch PRO for

Microsoft Hyper-V. This component adds capabilities in a virtualized environment by

monitoring storage availability and capacity as they pertain to VMs that run on a Hyper-V

host.


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PAGE TITLE MULTISTORE SOFTWARE

TRANSCRIPT

MultiStore software allows a storage controller to be quickly and easily divided into

multiple virtual storage systems. Each virtual storage system is completely segregated

from every other one, which ensures that no information on a secured partition can be

viewed, used, or downloaded by unauthorized users. Each storage partition is

maintained separately from every other storage partition so that multiple users,

departments, and customers can share the same storage system without compromise to

privacy and security.

MultiStore software provides secure multi-tenancy, like an apartment building. Only one

"building" (or system) must be maintained but each "tenant" (or virtual storage system)

has its own personal space and privacy. This is another way that NetApp provides

storage consolidation. Each department or customer perceives that it has its own system

but the administrator has only one system to maintain.


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PAGE TITLE NETAPP: THE STORAGE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD

TRANSCRIPT

NetApp technologies are ideal for organizations that are looking to virtualize their IT

infrastructures and for organizations that are ready to move to a cloud strategy. As this

course has described, NetApp's storage and data-management technology capabilities

are built on the Data ONTAP platform, which is the foundation of the NetApp Unified

Storage Architecture and provides the following key capabilities that are critical to private

cloud computing:

Storage-efficiency technologies through a single unified storage architecture

The ability to scale up and scale out the storage environment

Nonstop operations that allow users to move data to balance workloads as

needed

Secure multi-tenancy to cost-effectively and securely partition a single NetApp

system to support multiple tenants

ntegrated data protection that is built in to NetApp storageService automation

and analytics are also critical for automated storage provisioning, comprehensive

visibility, monitoring, and proactive alerts of availability, performance, and policy

compliance. NetApp's capabilities that are provided in OnCommand are

discussed in the next module of this course.

Click on each capability to learn more about it.

Storage efficiency is provided through a single unified storage architecture and

management interface that supports multiple protocols and multivendor arrays with

NetApp technologies that are inherent in the Data ONTAP operating system for

improving storage efficiency, such as thin provisioning, deduplication, cloning, and

Snapshot copies.Scale up and scale out means having the elastic scalability to scale up, out, or down to

meet the dynamic demands of a shared IT infrastructure that delivers IT as a service.

Nonstop operations allow users to move data to balance workloads or other

requirements, because planned downtime is impossible in a shared infrastructure. Data

Motion allows businesses to easily and quickly migrate and move data across multiple

storage systems without disrupting users or applications that are accessing that data.

Maintenance, hardware, and software upgrades and technology refreshes can be

conveniently performed by moving all data off a storage system, performing the desired

activity, and then moving the data back.

Secure multi-tenancy allows users to cost-effectively and securely partition a single

NetApp system to support multiple tenants with MultiStore software that is combined in a

secure multi-tenancy architecture with Cisco and VMware to segment, isolate, anddeliver shared server, storage, and network resources to different users, groups,

departments, and applications.

Integrated data protection is built in to NetApp storage, with core features such as high

availability, disaster recovery, backup, and compliance that can be activated as needed

without having to deploy additional complex combinations of software and hardware.


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PAGE TITLE LEARNING ACTIVITY INTRODUCTION

TRANSCRIPT

This learning activity reinforces the concepts that you learned in this module.

This learning activity requires approximately three minutes.

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PAGE TITLE MODULE SUMMARY

TRANSCRIPT

Now that you have completed this module, you should be able to:

Identify the key NetApp products that are part of the Windows consolidation and

virtualization solutions

Describe how the NetApp technologies help to increase storage efficiency

Explain how NetApp is the storage foundation for cloud

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