Technical Reports

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

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.

This document provides guidance on how to implement the SnapManager® for Microsoft® Exchange Business Continuance Module (BCM) for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2007 disaster recovery.

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.