Technical Reports

This document discusses the implementation of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Version 5 in an environment using NetApp FAS storage systems. It provides a conceptual understanding of what is required in a true DR scenario, which is much broader than just failing over the virtual infrastructure and storage environment.

This document is an overview of NetApp® DataMotion™ for vFiler®, which is one of the foundation pieces of nondisruptive data mobility, providing nondisruptive data migration. It also describes the best practices for using DataMotion for vFiler.

This document discusses the planning considerations and best practices for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 on NetApp® storage systems. It also covers the best practices for the NetApp enterprise content management solution for SharePoint, which is NetApp SnapManager® 6.1 for SharePoint.

This document discusses the deployment of NetApp SnapManager for Exchange on Data ONTAP 8.1 operating in Cluster-Mode. Data ONTAP 8.1 operating in Cluster-Mode allows nondisruptive operations during storage infrastructure maintenance and upgrades using volume move and intercluster asynchronous volume replication (replication between volumes hosted on different clusters).

Antivirus scanning is an integral feature for file services deployments. NetApp provides this functionality to its customers by partnering with premium antivirus product vendors. With on-board antivirus protection, storage administrators can configure the virus scanning mechanism and storage from one unified NetApp® interface. This document discusses the scanning configurations for Sophos® Anti-Virus for NetApp systems with NetApp Data ONTAP® operating in Cluster-Mode. It also discusses the best practices for deploying this solution.

The FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud solution is a joint reference implementation for building private clouds that combines Microsoft software, consolidated guidance, and validated configurations with hardware partner technology, including computing power, network and storage architectures, and value-added software components. FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud is a joint submission to the Fast Track program by NetApp and Cisco. This document describes the solution architecture in detail and includes content from NetApp, Cisco, and Microsoft.

The business problem addressed by big-analytics, big-bandwidth, big-content organizations is the collection of large amounts of raw data: from point-of-sale data, to credit card transactions, to log files, to security data. This “big” data is potentially useful but too large to be processed by humans or traditional relational database tools. Hadoop and associated MapReduce technologies turn raw data into valuable information; and NetApp® big-analytics, big-bandwidth, big-content platforms offer the right storage platforms and solutions to first ingest the data, then to analyze it, and finally to manage valuable datasets.

NetApp® technology enables data centers to extend their virtual infrastructures to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization. NetApp unified storage platforms provide industry-leading technologies in the areas of storage efficiencies, instantaneous virtual machine (VM) and datastore cloning for virtual servers, and virtual data center backup and business continuance solutions.

NetApp® SnapProtect® management software is changing today’s backup and recovery landscape. SnapProtect software combines simplified manageability, power, and flexibility for virtual environments with full support for enterprise database applications while providing virtually seamless integration with NetApp Snapshot™ technology for fast and efficient backup operations. In addition, SnapProtect software integrates with NetApp SnapVault® and SnapMirror® software with support for content-based cataloging and movement to tape-based media. This document is an introduction to the SnapProtect solution. It provides an overview of the technology and describes some of the basic configuration steps required to get started.