Virtualize storage across multiple HA pairs, managed as a single logical pool.
Only NetApp® Data ONTAP® 8 offers a unified scale-out storage solution for an adaptable, always-on storage infrastructure to accommodate today's virtualized infrastructures. You can deploy not only NAS storage and file-based protocols, but also the SAN protocols—Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE—in a shared scale-out data storage system.
Comprehensive support for SAN and NAS storage workloads, including Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI as well as NFS and CIFS network protocols. The platform scales, regardless of protocol, from small to large systems using the same features and data management tools.
Data ONTAP 8 is ideal for your virtualized, UNIX®, Windows®, and Linux® environments, no matter how complex your data storage configuration. You can focus on your applications—and let Data ONTAP 8 handle the security and availability of your data.
NetApp® Data ONTAP® intelligent storage delivers a massively scalable, always-on shared infrastructure that enables you to store more data in less space, so you can retain data on disk for longer periods of time. It also reduces both capital and operational costs associated with power and cooling.
- Reduce the data storage space you purchase and maintain.
- Scale out your infrastructure, not your IT organization.
- Clone data volumes and data sets without adding storage space.
- Simplify provisioning for multi-tenant shared storage infrastructures.
Only NetApp® Data ONTAP® 8 offers a unified scale-out storage solution for an adaptable, always-on storage infrastructure to accommodate today's virtualized infrastructures. You can deploy not only NAS storage and file-based protocols, but also the SAN protocols—Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE—in a shared scale-out data storage system.
- Gain sizeable I/O acceleration with multiple data controllers in parallel.
- Provide almost limitless capacity—regardless of network protocol.
- Increase single-volume capacity as content repositories expand.
- Balance data and network connections anywhere in the storage cluster.
- Optimize the data path; pNFS offers parallel access to NFS workload storage.
Data ONTAP 8 data protection services leverage NetApp storage efficiency technologies and provide integration with leading-edge data protection applications. Your company can reduce both storage and data management costs for a significantly lower total cost of ownership. With Data ONTAP you get:
- Zero-overhead, double-parity RAID-DP® protection
- High availability, DR, backup, and compliance in an agile architecture
- Secure retention that meets enterprise storage compliance requirements