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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 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.

The NetApp Full-Motion Video (FMV) solution delivers the right information to the right people at the right time, which is crucial for successful in-theatre support operations. NetApp helps government agencies to make decisions with a solution that combines data scalability with highly efficient storage systems to provide greater capacity for enhanced imagery. Intelligence gathering and decision making require quick assessment and in-depth interpretation of live video data. NetApp FMV built on E5400 storage systems is an optimized storage solution for capturing and examining video feeds for better in-theatre decision making. Using a 60-drive ultra-dense 4U form factor storage system provides more data storage, allowing the data to be kept for longer periods of time, which facilitates and enhances the decision-making process.