Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:44:50 PDT
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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:27:00 PDT
As customers move toward their goal of having 100% virtualized data centers, they increasingly look for ways to bring the benefits of VMware® virtualization to their mission-critical Microsoft® applications. Customers planning a new deployment, performing an upgrade, or planning to virtualize 100% of their data center have an ideal opportunity to make the transition to a VMware vSphere™ virtual infrastructure built on NetApp® unified storage.Virtualizing Microsoft applications on NetApp unified storage provides enhanced data protection and fully automated disaster recovery capabilities. Typically, a virtualized Microsoft application provides much greater flexibility and complete automation with predefined disaster recovery (DR) processes and easier, streamlined recovery in the event of a disaster.This solution guide describes the architecture and validation of recovery of Microsoft applications with VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager (SRM) in the NetApp environment. |
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:00:00 PDT
This documents describes how VMware vCloud Director and NetApp unified storage enables service providers and enterprise customers to build a very cost-effective IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) cloud solution to meet business needs such as scalability, secure multi-tenancy, efficiency, increased performance, ease of manageability, chargeback, high availability, and integrated data protection. |
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:00:00 PDT
This technical report describes how to use the NetApp storage system’s Snapshot™ and SnapRestore® features to back up and restore a DB2 database in UNIX® environments and how to meet the challenges posed by shrinking backup and recovery windows for a mission-critical application. Regardless of the size of the database or the level of activity on the NetApp storage system, a Snapshot copy takes only a few seconds to create. The SnapRestore feature dramatically improves the system availability by providing the ability to recover in minutes, instead of hours or days. |
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:00:00 PDT
This technical report describes how to implement an NDMP backup solution using NetBackup™ 6.5 on NetApp® storage. It contains solution design and implementation details about how to configure NetBackup backup software. This paper is intended for storage and system administrators who are responsible for NetBackup infrastructure. It assumes that you are familiar with general backup and NetBackup administration concepts and terminology. |
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:00:00 PDT
This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware® vSphere™ with NetApp unified storage arrays. NetApp has been providing advanced storage features to VMware solutions since 2001. During this time, NetApp has developed operational guidelines for storage arrays running Data ONTAP® and ESX/ESXi Server. These techniques have been documented and are referred to as “best practices.” This technical report describes them. |
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:00:00 PDT
An overview of NetApp® Data Motion, which is one of the foundation pieces of ‘Always-On Data Mobility’, providing non-disruptive data migration. It also describes the best practices for using NetApp Data Motion. |
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
This document provides NetApp best practices on designing, architecting, deploying, and managing a scalable VMware® View 4.X (VDI) environment on NetApp® storage. |
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:00:00 PDT
Virtualization is changing everything about the structure of information technology. Traditional storage arrays with historic architectures are less effective in unlocking the value in virtualized environments. NetApp® unified storage solutions are at the forefront of providing solutions that empower customers to realize all of the benefits of a virtualized infrastructure. NetApp solutions enable customers to quickly deploy solutions that are storage efficient and provide improved performance. |
Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:00:00 PDT
This report was developed for administrators who require the NetApp® SnapDrive® for Windows® storage system service account to have minimal capabilities to perform its function |
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:00:00 PDT
This document discusses the advantages of architecting storage solutions in an Oracle® Database environment using the Network File System (NFS) on NetApp® storage. NetApp NFS offers significant advantages for suitable environments, including ease of management, decreased cost, simplified data protection and provisioning, and performance and scalability benefits. Best practices and important considerations for deploying Oracle with NetApp NFS are discussed. The tuning parameters listed below are best suited to the test setup described in this document. |
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:13:00 PDT
This document presents a rapid and efficient way of deploying Oracle dev/test environments on virtual server and storage infrastructure consisting of VMware vSphere and NetApp storage. |
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:00:00 PDT
Server virtualization with VMware® addresses the most critical problems plaguing IT shops, including server performance and reliability, escalating resource consumption, slow provisioning, and complicated data protection. However, choosing the right storage solution and the most optimal configuration are key to getting maximum efficiency out of your virtualized environment.This document discusses the potential benefits of designing your VMware virtual environment using the Network File System (NFS) running on NetApp® storage. NetApp NFS offers benefits including ease of management, decreased cost, simplified data protection and provisioning, and performance and data store scalability. Best practices and important considerations for deploying VMware with NetApp NFS are discussed |
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:13:00 PDT
This guide provides an overview of NetApp® SnapMirror® Sync and SnapMirror Semi-Sync technology and describes in detail how to implement and utilize it. It should prove useful for customers requiring assistance in understanding and deploying solutions with SnapMirror Sync and NetApp storage systems.in understanding and deploying solutions with SnapMirror Sync and NetApp storage systems. |
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:00:00 PDT
NetApp FAS3140 12000 Mailbox Exchange 2010 Mailbox Resiliency Storage Solution: This solution brief describes a tested 12,000 Resilient mailbox configuration for Exchange Server 2010. |
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:00:00 PDT
This document addresses the use of NetApp® Snapshot™ technology as a method of capturing Oracle® backups in light of Oracle’s recent announcement of official support for using third-party snapshot technologies to create crash-consistent images without backup mode. Using the consistency group feature of Data ONTAP®, customers can capture cross-volume Snapshot copies that preserve write ordering, which is crash consistent and can be used to create recoverable backup images. This document also contains NetApp’s best practices for Oracle Databases to prevent blocks from fracturing in the I/O infrastructure. |
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:00:00 PDT
This technical report describes the installation and configuration of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition on an Oracle Solaris SPARC platform with NetApp storage. |
Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:20:00 PDT
The goal of this document is to (a) provide IT administrators and operational staff with an understanding of the integration of NetApp® shared storage together with BMC Atrium Orchestrator automation using the BMC Atrium Orchestrator Application Adapter for NetApp Storage, and (b) provide decision makers with an understanding of the complexity, thus reducing implementation risk. The document covers the setup of storage services and their consumption using BMC workflows. A standard workflow to provision storage is created from scratch to enable rapid cloning for template-based provisioning patterns as well as development and testing. |
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:07:00 PDT
This document provides best practices when designing the storage layout for Oracle Databases running on NetApp storage systems. |
Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:14:00 PDT
This document provides the necessary information to allow Operations Manager, Protection Manager, and Provisioning Manager administrators to choose the correct system for hosting the DataFabric® Manager server. |
