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Virtual File Manager

Key Points:
  • Manage explosive file growth with a management tool that gives you a unified view across all of your file storage.
  • Consolidate and migrate file storage without disrupting your users and without traditional planning, administrative, and management overhead.
  • Reduce your total cost of ownership by creating tiered storage to store files based on usage.
  • Secure your peace of mind through a cost-effective business continuity plan that can provide location-independent, uninterrupted user access.

Manage your unstructured data with NetApp’s Virtual File Manager™ to reduce costs, simplify administration, and consolidate and migrate your vital files across your organization without disruption.

Is explosive file growth consuming too much of your IT administrators' bandwidth and time? Do they contend with unwieldy consolidation and migration processes and inefficient or ineffective management tools? Do you worry about the ability to instantly fail over users accessing files on multiple storage systems in geographically distributed locations to one or more secondary devices? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then NetApp's Virtual File Manager™ may be the solution for you. VFM can help your administrators solve these challenges and even help reduce your total cost of file management.

VFM comes in two editions: Enterprise Edition (EE) and Migration Edition (ME). With VFM – EE, your administrators can manage distributed file storage without affecting users, including consolidate storage on to NetApp NAS or your existing file storage to create a single, unified view across your enterprise. They can create storage tiers to match the value of your files with the most appropriate storage. They can even automate policies for migration, consolidation, and disaster recovery that can save you up to 40% on your total cost of ownership for the management of unstructured data.

With VFM – ME, your administrators can take advantage of VFM's non-disruptive migration and consolidation capabilities. Your users get simplified, consistent access to data, even when the underlying infrastructure changes. Your administrators get to free up their time to work on solving more business-critical issues. And you get peace of mind, with a lower upfront investment. You can always upgrade to VFM – EE when you want to access its more robust namespace management and disaster recovery capabilities.

Want to give VFM a try? Contact your NetApp representative today to download a trial copy of Virtual File Manager so you can explore the possibilities of how you can do more with less.