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Parallel Network File System Configuration and Best Practices for Data ONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode

Data managers in information-intensive scientific industries such as petroleum and gas exploration and production (E&P) understand the challenges that their rapidly growing datastores pose. Poor access to the high-quality, complete data they need to make informed decisions can cost millions of dollars. Many E&P geoscientists spend far too much of their time identifying, locating, and obtaining data they need for their mission-critical analyses. This paper examines these challenges and then explores technology advances that now enable disk-based archiving to complement tape-based solutions. In doing so it helps address these challenges. The paper then examines the range of solutions from NetApp and Interica that enable E&P companies to leverage these advances. Finally, it summarizes the potential benefits of this approach.

Unstable oil prices and a global economic downturn place exploration and production (E&P) asset teams under pressure to more precisely characterize prospects and existing dormant assets. At the same time, data managers look to stretch shrinking information technology budgets. These challenges are particularly acute for development of unconventional resources, which entail large risks and require specialized engineering and seismic interpretation techniques. By optimizing information resources, E&P managers can improve decision-making, and companies can begin extracting more efficiently. IHS offers a fully integrated E&P software solution. The integrated workflow operates in a Windows® environment, enhancing interpreter productivity and enabling analysis by a wide range of project participants—anytime and anywhere. In this way, IHS offers advanced science that is easy to use while pioneering advanced techniques for unconventional-resource interpretation, such as prestack/AVO and microseismic analyses. NetApp® data management and storage solutions complement IHS’s solutions by providing an infrastructure that consolidates data across the enterprise and facilitates collaboration. At the same time, NetApp’s solutions improve storage efficiency, enable efficient data backup and recovery anywhere, and enhance performance in a scalable platform.

NetApp® technology enables data centers to extend their virtual infrastructures to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization. NetApp leads the storage industry with a single information platform that is hardware agnostic, is able to aggregate disparate forms of hardware together, and can virtualize access to that storage—in effect, a storage hypervisor. NetApp Data ONTAP® 8.1 operating in Cluster-Mode technology is the storage hypervisor: a platform of storage efficiency, VMware integrations, and solutions. This document aligns the server hypervisor with the storage hypervisor by prescribing the best practices for deploying VMware® vSphere® 5 on Cluster-Mode.

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 ESG Lab report presents the results of hands-on testing of the NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop, a highly reliable, ready to deploy, scalable storage solution for Enterprise Hadoop.

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 article explains how VMware users can improve storage IO performance in their virtual infrastructure using OnCommand Balance