Platform OS

The NetApp Data ONTAP storage operating system software delivers flexible data management and high availability.

Data ONTAP® 8: Handle data growth with the #1 storage operating system*
Data ONTAP Edge: Low-cost remote office storage solution that runs in a virtual machine on the VMware® vSphere® platform
 

Data ONTAP Features

FilerView® browser-based administration tool
Flash Pool automated storage tiering
FlexShare® quality-of-service tool
FlexVol® technology for creating multiple flexible volumes
RAID-DP® data protection technology
Snapshot™ point-in-time copy technology
SnapValidator® for Oracle validation software
 

Optional  Data ONTAP Capabilities

DataMotion™ data migration software
FlexCache® caching software
FlexClone® technology for creating cloned volumes
MultiStore® secure multi-tenancy software
 
* Source: NetApp internal estimates of Revenue and Storage Capacity in the Worldwide Open-Networked Storage Market, as of June 2012. VNX, VNXe, and Celerra NS can run any Flare or Dart operating system. The contribution of these products to the OS share has been estimated based on the proportion of NAS and SAN installations in these products (NAS - Dart; SAN - Flare).