Key Points:
- Reduce the amount of time and storage required to build, test, and deploy applications using SQL Server®.
- Facilitate accurate forecasting and higher utilization of storage resources.
- Enable parallel training, development, and QA as well as business reporting processes.
- Improve application quality using copies of real-world production.
- Minimize production system risk by off-loading processes to secondary sites.
NetApp provides the ability to create space-efficient copies of your Microsoft® SQL Server databases in minutes versus hours, allowing you to develop and deploy new applications faster than ever before using minimal incremental storage.
NetApp® FlexClone® technology, which is integrated in SnapManager® for Microsoft SQL Server, allows you to replicate SQL Server databases in minutes using less storage space than other vendors' solutions.
Clone lifecycle management capabilities from NetApp help you:
- Create clones quickly whenever you need them, with minimal storage space impact.
- Make zero-storage-footprint clones that can accelerate the release and improve the quality of new SQL Server applications.
- Create space-efficient copies of SQL Server data with end-to-end clone lifecycle management, including policy-based clone deletion and refresh.
- Offer on-demand, periodic, and customized staging and user-acceptance testing services quickly and without errors to other end users.
- Off-load reporting and analysis workloads from production databases by leveraging cloned copies of databases.
Use these virtual copies of your production data to simultaneously work on patching, testing, development, reporting, training, and quality assurance. What's more, you can leverage NetApp FlexVol® technology to quickly provision storage resources for additional application testing and development projects. Deploying SQL Server 2012 on NetApp SMB storage provides an alternative lower-cost storage infrastructure with performance comparable to SAN.
Easily replicate your production data via SnapMirror® software (for NetApp based storage) or SnapMirror for Open Systems (for storage other than from NetApp) for testing and deploy your test and development systems to lower-cost secondary storage. With SQL Server 2012 you have the option to use NetApp SMB/NAS storage as an alternative lower-cost storage infrastructure with performance comparable to SAN.
Read more about NetApp solutions for SQL Server
Learn more by contacting your NetApp sales representative or reseller and arrange a visit to your local Microsoft Technology Center.
