NetApp for virtualization

Decouple data from the hypervisor

Make your data the control point, and the hypervisor becomes a choice again.

Built for enterprise storage and virtualization teams, NetApp® storage decouples your data and data services from any single virtualization platform. Run, migrate, and modernize workloads on your timeline, across hypervisors, containers, and clouds.

NetApp for Virtualization

Any hypervisor, any cloud, always secure

NetApp preserves choices and ensures data mobility with a flexible storage foundation across hypervisors, containers, and clouds with zero vendor lock-in. NetApp Shift Toolkit lets you migrate and convert VMs in minutes, not hours. Unified support for NAS and SAN consolidates diverse workloads on a single, scalable architecture. Lower overall costs come from faster moves, better utilization of existing infrastructure, less overhead, and independent scaling of compute and storage.

Run, secure, and optimize

Control your virtualization strategy

Run your environment your way. NetApp delivers true operational freedom across hypervisors, containers, and clouds so infrastructure adapts to your strategy, not the other way around.

Lower virtual infrastructure costs

NetApp helps you attack the cost drivers of virtual infrastructure that are under your control with the fastest VM migrations, storage and workload optimizations, and offloading data management from the CPU layer.

Protect virtual machine data at scale

Secure your VM data with automated, resilient, and guaranteed protection.

NetApp protects applications and data by default, not as an afterthought.

Proven results across hybrid cloud virtualized environments

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Higher utilization and measurable efficiency gains across IT teams[1]

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Savings in the cloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP[2]

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Guaranteed availability for virtualized SAN workloads[3]

Your data, your virtualization strategy, zero compromises

Maintain complete freedom across hypervisors, containers, and cloud. NetApp virtualization solutions offer easy scaling and no vendor lock in.

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VMware by Broadcom

ONTAP-based services, certified and supported by VMware across AWS, GCP, and Azure deliver a single, hybrid cloud platform for VMware Cloud Foundation

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Red Hat OpenShift

Modernize infrastructure with an intelligent data platform for hybrid cloud VM and container operations

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Hyper-V

Deliver a resilient, scalable, and cost-effective enterprise virtualization environment

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Proxmox

Manage provisioning, backup, restore, and cloning capabilities with Storage Manager for Proxmox

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AWS

Deliver cost savings, reduced downtime and faster backups with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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Microsoft Azure

Simplify operations and migrations while ensuring data compliance and protection with Azure NetApp Files

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Google Cloud Platform

Run virtualized applications in the cloud without sacrificing performance

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Siemens Healthineers

“This was by far the biggest VM migration project we’ve ever experienced. But thanks to the collaboration with NetApp and the Shift Toolkit, we were able to deliver results that seemed impossible at the start.”

David Häfner, MR Datentechnik

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AGL Energy

"With help from NetApp technologies, we’ve already predicted over 2 million dollars (AUD) in infrastructure savings this year."

Byron Baynham, Senior Manager Cloud and Infrastructure Platform, AGL Energy

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Thor Motor Coach

“We’re a vastly different looking organization than we were before the transformation – faster, more nimble, and cost-effective.”

Scott Sibert, Director of Information Technology, Thor Motor Coach

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FAQs

No. NetApp uses open data formats and documented exit paths, and the architecture is multi-platform by design. Decoupling only works if your data can move freely, so portability is built in, not bolted on. You can verify this before you commit.

Costs drop because data moves freely. You migrate faster, optimize storage and workloads, offload data management from the CPU layer, and scale compute and storage independently. The savings come directly from decoupling, not from a one-time discount.

Yes. NetApp supports hybrid cloud and multi-cloud deployments for virtual workloads, giving organizations a consistent storage experience whether workloads run on-premises, in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. ONTAP extends the same data services, including replication, snapshot policies, and access controls, across all environments. This means VM workloads can move between data center and cloud without requiring storage reconfiguration or re-architecture.

NetApp’s autonomous ransomware protection, tamperproof Snapshot™ copies, and near-instant recovery capabilities allow you to proactively protect against threats and recover of thousands of VMs in minutes.

Integrated backup and replication software minimizes RTO/RPO, ensuring business continuity for critical virtualized applications. NetApp delivers these capabilities for data center to data center and data center to cloud via NetApp Console Backup and Recovery and Disaster Recovery.

NetApp gives you consistent ONTAP data services across VMs, containers, on-premises systems, and cloud, so you simplify operations across mixed infrastructure. Trident™ and Trident Protect extend that value to Kubernetes, supporting provisioning, protection, and application mobility.

The NetApp Shift Toolkit automates the conversion and migration of virtual machines across hypervisors, significantly reducing the time and manual effort typically required to move VMs between platforms. Rather than manually reconfiguring VMs or rebuilding workloads, teams can use the Shift Toolkit to convert VM disk formats and migrate workloads in a structured, repeatable way. This is particularly valuable for organizations reassessing their VMware environment and evaluating alternative hypervisors.

Additional Resources

Why NetApp for virtualization

Improve your cost control, operational consistency, and flexibility so you have the confidence to modernize on when its right for you.

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Technical documentation

NetApp provides comprehensive virtualization solutions that enable organizations to optimize their IT infrastructure across multiple hypervisors and platforms.

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Backup and restore KubeVirt VMs

Trident Protect automatically collects all dependent VM resources during backup, and during restore, so you can recover the entire archive or selectively restore individual VMs.

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Virtualization strategy playbook

In this practical session, our experts will explore five key areas every organization should consider when reviewing their virtualization environment: visibility, optimization, hypervisor strategy, migration and replatforming, and how to take action with confidence.

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