Key Points:
- Consolidate SQL Server® databases with NetApp® to reduce storage and data management costs
- Simplify data management by automating backup, recovery, archiving, and database cloning
- Back up and restore databases rapidly, without disrupting applications or end users
- Restore a failed database of any size to full production in minutes
- Automate database cloning services to make clones in seconds, using only minimal additional storage
- Achieve nondisruptive operations during storage infrastructure and software upgrades with Data ONTAP operating in Cluster-Mode
Our high-availability storage solutions for Microsoft® SQL Server feature integrated data management software and comprehensive support services to help you reduce costs while improving scalability, manageability, and data protection of your entire SQL Server 2008 R2 environment.
With our storage solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, we can help your business go further, faster by enabling people in your enterprise to collaborate and share information whenever they need to so they can perform their jobs more effectively. As a result, you increase productivity and enable everyone to more effectively contribute to the success of your business. Our SQL Server solutions support physical and virtual infrastructure and include:
- Storage consolidation
- Clone lifecycle management
- Backup and recovery
- Disaster recovery
By consolidating your SQL Server data onto NetApp® storage, you can save money by improving storage utilization and simplifying data management. Our data deduplication and policy-based data management capabilities help you to gain additional efficiencies. With Data ONTAP operating in Cluster-Mode, you can further optimize your resource utilization.
Our solutions are tightly integrated with Microsoft technologies and designed to help you:
- Reduce costs and increase storage efficiency
- Improve manageability through automated data management processes, including backup and recovery
- Reduce the amount of time and storage needed to create SQL Server database clones required for application development and testing
- Protect your SQL Server data with frequent, space-efficient, and low impact backups
- Achieve nondisruptive operations to maintain availability of your SQL Server databases during routine maintenance, upgrades, or even volume movement within a vServer through Data ONTAP operating in Cluster-Mode.
- Implement a disaster recovery strategy that can restore a failed database of any size to full production in minutes and quickly reestablish full system availability in the event of a disaster
Read more about NetApp solutions for SQL Server
NetApp is a Microsoft SQL Server “Always On” Technology Partner and provides a broad range of tested and certified storage solutions for Microsoft SQL Server. Learn more about how our data storage solutions for Microsoft SQL Server can benefit your organization. Contact your NetApp sales representative or your NetApp reseller and arrange a visit to your local Microsoft Technology Center.
