Technical Reports

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.

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.

This document discusses the deployment of NetApp SnapManager for Exchange on Data ONTAP 8.1 operating in Cluster-Mode. Data ONTAP 8.1 operating in Cluster-Mode allows nondisruptive operations during storage infrastructure maintenance and upgrades using volume move and intercluster asynchronous volume replication (replication between volumes hosted on different clusters).

Antivirus scanning is an integral feature for file services deployments. NetApp provides this functionality to its customers by partnering with premium antivirus product vendors. With on-board antivirus protection, storage administrators can configure the virus scanning mechanism and storage from one unified NetApp® interface. This document discusses the scanning configurations for Sophos® Anti-Virus for NetApp systems with NetApp Data ONTAP® operating in Cluster-Mode. It also discusses the best practices for deploying this solution.

The FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud solution is a joint reference implementation for building private clouds that combines Microsoft software, consolidated guidance, and validated configurations with hardware partner technology, including computing power, network and storage architectures, and value-added software components. FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud is a joint submission to the Fast Track program by NetApp and Cisco. This document describes the solution architecture in detail and includes content from NetApp, Cisco, and Microsoft.