NetApp Microsoft SQL Server Consolidation

Consolidate Microsoft SQL Server 2012 databases across your enterprise onto a NetApp® agile data infrastructure to reduce your storage and data management costs and improve the manageability of your IT environment.

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Data Platform Partner and a SQL Server "AlwaysOn" Technology Partner, we provide a full range of storage solutions that have been certified with Microsoft SQL Server. Our agile data infrastructure supports thousands of SQL Server implementations for a variety of OLAP, DSS, and RDBMS applications.

By consolidating SQL Server data onto a NetApp agile data infrastructure, you have the flexibility of an iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and FCoE SAN as well as an SMB (CIFS) infrastructure. You can use thin provisioning to eliminate pools of unused storage and increase storage utilization, achieve intelligent data management, and reduce administrative overhead. In addition, you can enable cloud environments to achieve the high efficiency and cost savings that multi-tenancy can provide.

Consolidating your Microsoft SQL Server databases with NetApp helps you:

  • Reduce costs and increase storage efficiency through deduplication to eliminate pools of unused storage.
  • Automatically move online backups to secondary storage and then deduplicate the archived backups to further reduce storage costs.
  • Easily scale storage capacity without taking SQL Server databases or storage systems offline.
  • Create database clones with virtually no storage footprint.
  • Enable faster recovery in the event of application errors.
  • Provide more storage options and new ways to cut expenses with SQL Server 2012 on simple, lower-cost network-attached storage.
  • Improve DBA productivity with the streamlined, federated backup, recovery, and cloning capabilities of SnapManager® for Microsoft SQL Server

Read more about NetApp solutions for SQL Server

Learn more by contacting your NetApp sales representative or reseller and arrange a visit to your local Microsoft Technology Center.