NetApp Data ONTAP 8: Clustering to Achieve Enterprise Scale

Virtualize your storage across multiple HA pairs, managed as a single logical pool of resources and namespace—and scale from terabytes to tens of petabytes transparent to your running operations.

Only NetApp® Data ONTAP® 8 offers a unified scale-out solution for an adaptable, always-on storage infrastructure to accommodate today's highly virtualized environments. You can deploy not only NAS or file-based protocols, but also the SAN protocols—Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE—in a shared scale-out storage system:

  • Provide nearly limitless capacity—regardless of network protocol.
  • Massively increase single-volume capacity as content repositories expand.
  • Dynamically balance data and network connections anywhere within the storage cluster.
  • Optimize the data path; pNFS delivers parallel access to storage for NFS workloads.
  • Gain significant I/O acceleration by accessing multiple data servers in parallel.

Learn more about NetApp's features that enable massive scalability and data management:

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