Datasheet

Data ONTAP 8 Operating System7-Mode

KEY BENEFITS

Adapt to Change Maximize service levels for your business and technical applications with flexible provisioning that enables you to adapt your storage to fit your evolving requirements. Enhance Data Availability We help protect your missioncritical data while keeping it instantly available throughout your organization. Save Storage, Power, and Space Store more information on less disk space, saving power, cooling costs, and space. Increase Productivity Maximize staff productivity and get to market faster with an operating environment optimized for virtualization. Lower TCO Lower your total cost of ownership through simplified deployment, administration, and management.

The Challenge Managing growth and change In todays rapidly changing business climate, your enterprise demands costeffective, flexible data management solutions that can handle the unpredictable and explosive growth of storage in your heterogeneous environment. As your business expands, you need your data to work for you. Youre looking for efficiency. You want data management thats able to grow with you as your storage needs explode. Its got to be flexible enough to adapt to and protect your diverse business environment. You want a system that allows you to effectively manage your resources something simple, and something you can afford. The Solution Implement our scalable, flexible Data ONTAP 8 operating system NetApp storage solutions help you manage data in your enterprise environment with a scalable and flexible operating system we call Data ONTAP 8. Data ONTAP 8 offers two operating modes, Cluster-Mode* and 7-Mode. Data ONTAP 8 operating in 7-Mode provides: More efficient storage High availability Business continuance Quality of service

Reduced storage management complexity Meet diverse needs Our Data ONTAP 8 architecture operating in 7-Mode is an evolution of our innovative Data ONTAP 7G and works together with our storage systems to meet your needs, from small workgroups to enterprise data centers. Our software integrates seamlessly with UNIX, Windows, and Web environments. You get scalable performance and a flexible storage environment with solutions that store and serve your applications, consolidate your data, and provide reliable data access throughout your enterprise. The Data ONTAP 8 operating system simplifies your management and optimizes storage utilization by combining our patented file-system technology and a microkernel design, giving you the following benefits. Adapt to change quickly and easily Flexible volumes dont require prepartitioning. Now you can more easily tailor the data to fit your needs. And, even better, you can do it more quickly with smaller overhead. A quicker response means a more nimble business. With Data ONTAP 8 operating in 7-Mode, we extend the volume sizes by supporting aggregates based on 64 bits, resulting in a theoretical size of up to 1000PB.

SOFTWARE/ FEATURE
NetApp Data Compression NetApp DataMotion NetApp Deduplication FlexCache FlexClone FlexShare FlexVol MetroCluster MultiStore SnapDrive SnapLock SnapManager SnapMirror SnapRestore Snapshot

FUNCTION
Transparent inline data compression for data reduction Nondisruptive data mobility for volumes and virtual storage controllers General-purpose deduplication for removal of redundant data objects Caches NFS volumes for accelerated file access in remote offices and for server compute farms Instantaneously creates file, LUN, and volume clones without requiring additional storage Prioritizes storage resource allocation to highest value workloads on a heavily loaded system Creates flexibly sized LUNs and volumes across a large pool of disks and one or more RAID groups An integrated high-availability/disaster recovery solution for campus and metro-area deployments Securely partitions a storage system into multiple virtual storage controllers Provides host-based data management of NetApp storage from Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers Write-protects structured application data files within a volume to provide WORM disk storage Provides host-based data management of NetApp storage for databases and business applications Enables automatic, incremental data replication between systems: synchronous or asynchronous Rapidly restores single files, directories, or entire LUNs and volumes from any Snapshot copy backup Makes incremental, data-in-place, point-in-time copies of a LUN or volume with minimal performance impact Exports Snapshot copies to another NetApp system, providing an incremental block-level backup solution Maintains two online copies of data with RAID-DP protection on each side of the mirror Provides setup, provisioning, and configuration management of a Data ONTAP storage system

BENEFIT
Reduces the amount of storage you need to purchase and maintain Allows you to move data nondisruptively while your applications keep running Reduces the amount of storage you need to purchase and maintain Improves your systems performance, response times, and data availability Saves you time in testing and development and increases your storage capacity Provides you with better performance from designated high-priority applications Enables your storage systems to be used at maximum efficiency and reduces your hardware investment Enables you to have immediate data availability if a site fails Allows you to implement secure multi-tenancy for shared storage infrastructure Allows you to initiate error-free system restores should servers fail Provides you with worry-free compliance with records retention regulations Lets you automate error-free data restores and provides you with application-aware disaster recovery Provides you with flexibility and efficiency when mirroring for data distribution and disaster recovery Instantaneously recovers your files, databases, and complete volumes from your backup Enables you to create frequent, space-efficient backups with no disruption to data traffic Provides you with cost-effective, long-term backups of disk-based data Protects your system from all types of hardware outages, including triple disk failure Simplifies out-of-box setup and device management using an intuitive Windows-based interface

SnapVault SyncMirror System Manager

The Data ONTAP 8 operating system simplifies your management and optimizes storage utilization by combining our patented file-system technology and a microkernel design.

Improve quality of service With FlexShare you can consolidate disparate applications, prioritize specific datasets, and dynamically adjust priorities as the needs arise. You can use FlexShare to host multiple workloads on a single NetApp system and then assign individual priorities to each. Reduce costs Now you can store more data in less disk space because we integrated data deduplication and thin provisioning. FlexVol technology enables you to use your storage systems at maximum efficiency, thus lowering your hardware investment to a minimum. Not only do you reduce the amount of physical storage, but you also see significant savings in power, cooling, and data center real estate costs. Buy less storage You can consolidate hundreds of terabytes on a single storage system because our operating system is so adept at taking advantage of multiple processors. Its the perfect fit for any business or technical application.

Share heterogeneous data throughout your company With Data ONTAP 8 operating in 7-Mode, you have seamless access to data using block- and file-level protocols on a single storage system. We provide block-level data access over a Fibre Channel SAN fabric using FCP and over an IP-based network using iSCSI. Our SecureShare cross-protocol locking technology helps keep you from having to compromise security, compatibility, or performance when sharing heterogeneous data. Enhance data availability We also help you reduce costly downtime and maximize access to your mission-critical data. Data ONTAP 8 operating in 7-Mode offers standard features and optional capabilities that contribute to this high level of data availability and include: WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) file system Snapshot FlexClone Multipath high availability Active-active controller failover RAID-DP SyncMirror Patent-pending block-level checksum capability

Provide business continuance and compliance We understand that lengthy disruptions to information access and noncompliance with records retention regulations are simply not options in your business. Data ONTAP 8 operating in 7-Mode includes innovative, disaster-tolerant data protection and recovery features. You get business continuance and diskbased data permanence features for regulated and reference data. Extend data protection With NetApp Snapshot technology you can provide near-instantaneous file-level or full dataset recovery. You get up to 255 data-in-place, pointin-time images per volume. Unlike snapshot implementations from other vendors, NetApp Snapshot copies are nearly instantaneous, and they require minimal disk space overhead. They are uniquely suited for protecting your production data. Integrated RAID provides you with cost-effective protection against multiple disk failures and errors. Our doubleparity RAID-DP (our high-performance RAID 6 application) helps you protect against disruption of service to users.

Lower total cost of ownership Data ONTAP 8 operating in 7-Mode enables greater efficiency and productivity in your business by simplifying the deployment, administration, and management of your storage infrastructure. Deploy quickly and easily You can quickly configure and install our operating system using our setup wizard. Because we use standard nam-

ing and authentication services, youll find our software easy to deploy as it seamlessly integrates into your existing UNIX and Windows environments. Manage with ease Using NetApp OnCommand, you can centrally manage multiple systems throughout your enterprise. We make it easy: Wizards guide you through common management operations.
* For information on Cluster-Mode operation, refer to the Data ONTAP 8 Operating System datasheet.

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