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Using Oracle Database 10g/11g Automatic Storage Management With NetApp Storage
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper shares best practices for using the new Oracle Database 10g/11g Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature in conjunction with NetApp NFS NAS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI SAN storage...
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Integrated Server and Storage Virtualization: A Complete Solution From Microsoft and NetApp
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper describes how a virtualized server infrastructure based on Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Hyper-V with integrated management via Microsoft System Center addresses key IT challenges. It...
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Implementation Guide for Veritas Cluster Server and NetApp SnapMirror for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Today's business requirements, such as high availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery, are more extensive than ever before. Because Microsoft Exchange has become a mission-critical...
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SAP With Oracle on Windows and NetApp Storage
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the challenges of designing storage solutions to support SAP Business Suite products using an Oracle Database. The primary focus is on the common storage infrastructure...
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Uninterrupted Data Availability With NetApp MetroCluster and DB2 9.7 High-Availability Feature
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For today's enterprises 24x7 data availability is not an option but a necessity to succeed in an ever-increasing competitive environment. With globalization, data growth, and business reliance on...
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PowerVM Virtualization and NetApp Storage: Best Practices
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
IBM Power Systems servers coupled with PowerVM technology enable clients to build a dynamic infrastructure, reducing costs, managing risk, and improving service levels. By using NetApp storage...
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Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server Mixed Workload on VMware VSphere 4, NetApp Unified Storage (FC, ISCSI, and NFS), and Cisco Nexus Unified Fabric
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides guidance on how to design and architect a scalable Microsoft applications mixed workload solution on highly available VMware vSphere 4 virtual infrastructure and NetApp unified...
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The NetApp Performance Acceleration Module II in File Services Workloads
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
NetApp submitted three results for SPECsfs2008 over NFS, each of which was for the FAS3160 storage system. The first submission is based on a FAS3160 controller with 16 disk shelves of 15,000 RPM...
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Development and Test Solution for SQL Server Databases
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
NetApp solutions dramatically reduce the effort required to deploy databases for application development, testing, QA, maintenance, and migration. Database administrators and application...
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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 and NetApp SnapManager for SQL Server Fundamentals
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the best practices for working with Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2006 and SnapManager for SQL Server. The paper discusses the components of the BizTalk Server and how they...
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Migration of Oracle Database to Data ONTAP 8.0 64-bit Aggregates
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Migration of large Oracle Databases such as data warehouses and decision support systems, which can easily consume many terabytes, presents one of the biggest technical challenges for any...
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Using Performance Acceleration Module in Exchange 2007 Solutions
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, a specific implementation of PAM, namely PAM I, a PCI Express X4 card with 16GB of SDRAM (together with its software component), was tested using two vastly different Exchange 2007...
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High-Availability Support for DataFabric Manager Server
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper explains how to set up high-availability solution for NetApp DataFabric Manager Server. The high-availability solution for DataFabric Manager Server on Windows is implemented using...
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Solutions for SAP Test Data Migration Server With NetApp Storage
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the storage solutions used to support an environment that uses the SAP Test Data Migration Server product. It addresses the architecture and processes to efficiently integrate...
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Domino Backup and Restore Using a Scripted Solution With NetApp
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Normally, backup and restore operations require data movement from one storage device to another, which consumes time and resources. Advancements in storage technologies allow users to offload the...
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Integrating Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise for UNIX With a NetApp Storage System
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the procedure to integrate Sybase Adaptive Server for UNIX with a NetApp storage system. This paper assumes familiarity with the following: Sybase Adaptive Server, The...
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NetApp FAS3170 Fibre Channel 60,000 User Exchange 2007 SP1 Storage Solution
February 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the testing of a 60,000 user configuration for Exchange Server 2007 with a NetApp FAS3170 storage system. The NetApp FAS3100 represents the midrange of the FAS family of...
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Disaster Recovery Solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server User Sites Using SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Innovative NetApp technologies enable organizations to extract benefits out of their SharePoint deployments in the area of backing up and restoring these. The various technologies empower the...
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NetApp Storage Monitoring Using HP OpenView
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The main objective of this paper is to provide a possible integration path for customers who have NNM as their management solution. This paper will discuss some of the integration approaches for...
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Integrating Lotus Domino 7.0 for Linux with a NetApp Storage System
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the steps necessary to integrate a NetApp storage system with an IBM Lotus Domino 7.0 for Linux server. The main topics covered are: Preparing the NetApp storage system for...
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Novell GroupWise Backup With NetApp Storage
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper does not cover using Novell's Pool Freeze/Thaw APIs. The Pool Freeze/Thaw method quiesces the NSS Pool and is therefore unaware of what an application may be doing. As a result,...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Relational Engine: Storage Fundamentals for NetApp Storage Systems
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is an appropriate product for many business-critical applications. There are many different ways to design the underlying storage. This paper has introduced how SQL...
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Using Integrated Snapshot Backup Feature of IBM DB2 9.5 With NetApp Storage System
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper describes how to meet challenges posed by shrinking backup and recovery windows using the integrated storage Snapshot features of DB2 9.5. Regardless of the size of the database or the...
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Disaster Recovery Support for DataFabric Manager Data Using SnapDrive
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper explains how to set up the Disaster Recovery Support for DataFabric Manager (DFM) Data feature without using Protection Manager. In Operations Manager for DataFabric Manager Server 3.7,...
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Storage Infrastructure for Cloud Computing NetApp Is the Technology Partner of Choice
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a reality, and forward-thinking IT organizations are moving quickly to evolve existing IT infrastructures to include cloud capabilities that provide IT as a...
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Building a Data Center for Cloud Computing Transform Your Storage Environment to Cut Costs and Increase Efficiency
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data centers are at a crossroad. Massive data growth, tough economic conditions, and physical data center limitations (power, heat, space) are exerting extreme pressure on traditional IT...
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Oracle Fusion Middleware DR Solution Using NetApp Storage
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This technical paper covers replicating Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g using NetApp SnapMirror, Snapshot, and FlexVol technology. It describes the configuration and steps to create a Disaster...
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Webcasts
Live Webcast Series: Learn how to build your shared IT infrastructure
December 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
Start today by registering for our three-part live Webcast series, which will offer interactive Q&A and featuring leading analysts, peer perspectives, NetApp experts, and strategic solution...
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NetApp RAID-DP?: Dual-Parity RAID 6 Protection Without Compromise
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As disk drive densities continue to increase, and companies adopt SATA disk drives to reduce storage costs, data loss due to concurrent disk drive failure and error in a RAID group has become a...
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Virtualization Services Solution: Maximize The Benefits From Your Virtualized Infrastructure Investments
October 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization Assessment Service Provides you with guidance on how to start capitalizing on the benefits of a virtualized platform. The experts work with you to identify and characterize the data...
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NetApp White Paper: Transitioning to Microsoft SharePoint and Virtualization with Microsoft and NetApp
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The rapid growth and adoption of Microsoft® SharePoint® is straining existing IT infrastructures, including data management and storage systems. This white paper describes how deployment of...
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ESG White Paper: Address Storage Inefficiencies Before Outsourcing Exchange
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses sources of potential savings in on-premise Microsoft Exchange deployments and outlines a three-step approach to achieving them. When companies account for these savings, they...
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Trends in Virtualization and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This whitepaper summarizes the results of a recent survey of 156 respondents responsible for the Microsoft Exchange email and messaging infrastructure in firms with 500 or more employees....
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Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange 2010 with NetApp and VMware
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Many customers are migrating to Exchange Server 2010 and a significant number of them are doing so with virtualization technologies. This paper highlights trends, benefits, best practices and...
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ESG White Paper: Deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server with NetApp Networked Storage
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper focuses generally on optimal storage and storage management for SharePoint and specifically evaluates NetApp's approach, detailing how the capabilities in NetApp's DataONTAP and...
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ESG White Paper: NetApp Optimizes SharePoint Implementations
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
A few years ago, NetApp completed its first integration with Microsoft SharePoint to facilitate storage management and data protection functions for its then newly introduced collaboration...
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Addressing Data Management and IT Infrastructure Challenges in a SharePoint Environment
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In recent years, the success of Microsoft's SharePoint products and technologies has led to an explosion in data management requirements. IT environments struggle to manage the rapid growth of...
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Podcasts
Addressing Data Management and IT Infrastructure Challenges in a SharePoint Environment - Podcast
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this podcast, SharePoint server expert Michael Noel will cover key topics around SharePoint infrastructure sprawl and high-availability, including reasons why SharePoint infrastructure grows...
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Case Studies
Dominion Enterprises Transforms IT with Flexible NetApp-VMware-Cisco Infrastructure
February 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
Dominion Enterprises is a marketing services that they need to support rapidly growing and changing operations through shared It services. They Integrate acquisitions and support 40 different...
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Case Studies
Princeton Insurance Increases Flexibility, Strengthens Competitive Edge With Private Cloud
February 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Princeton Insurance is the leading medical professional liability insurer in New Jersey, They faced the challenge to increase business agility by delivering IT as a service and empower small IT...
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TOT_Top Five Hyper-V Best Practices
January 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
NetApp best practices cover important new features of Microsoft® HyperV™ as well as lessons learned from numerous deployments. Learn how to configure networks, set appropriate iGroups and LUN...
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NetApp Solutions Guide: Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server Mixed Workload on VMware vSphere 4, NetApp Unified Storage (FC, iSCSI, and NFS), and Cisco Nexus Unified Fabric
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This document provides guidance on how to design and architect a scalable Microsoft applications mixed workload solution on highly available VMware vSphere 4 virtual infrastructure and NetApp...
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Discovering Improved Data Protection Strategies for the Virtual World
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This report examines the impact that virtualization has on data protection and disaster recovery and the need for highly virtualized servers and storage within this context. It outlines the...
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ESG Report: Storage Efficiency Strategies for Microsoft Application Environments
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the many Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint implementations running on inefficient storage infrastructures, limiting scalability and complicating what should be fairly...
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NetApp Storage Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This technical report (TR) provides guidelines and best practices for integrated architectures and implementations of Microsoft® Hyper-V with NetApp® storage solutions. The NetApp technologies...
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ESG: Driving Storage Efficiency in SAN Environments
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Today's IT organizations need to operate on slimmer budgets while managing the increased demands of the data center. This ESG paper outlines the considerations for architecting an efficient SAN...
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Business Case Study: Assessing Storage Efficiency within NetApp's Data Centers
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This report looks at ways NetApp IT was able to put into practices what the company has been saying to its customers for some time: That the use of NetApp storage offers such efficiency that it...
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NetApp Storage for Windows Environments: Challenges and Solutions
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Windows environments in today's businesses can be complex. There are a variety of users to accommodate, ranging from product-collateral hungry salespeople, to engineering power users, to the...
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NetApp Virtualization Solutions for Citrix XenApp Environments
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Server virtualization has emerged as the most dramatic market trend of the decade and has resulted in millions of dollars in savings. The positive effects on business, technical and operational...
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Using Encryption to Increase the Security of Networked Storage
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
IT managers are working hard to ensure the security and integrity of key enterprise data. Damage to data can occur as a result of an intentional attack from a variety of sources, including...
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SWEEPER: An Efficient Disaster Recovery Point Identification Mechanism
April 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the design and implementation of SWEEPER architecture and backup copy selection algorithms that specifically tackle the problem of quickly and systematically identifying a good...
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Don't Blame Disks for Every Storage Subsystem Failure: A Comprehensive Study of Storage Subsystem Failure Characteristics
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the failure characteristics of storage subsystems. More specifically, it analyzes the NetApp AutoSupport logs collected from about 39,000 storage systems commercially deployed...
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FlexVol: Flexible, Efficient File Volume Virtualization in WAFL
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization is a well-known method of abstracting physical resources and of separating the manipulation and use of logical resources from their underlying implementation. One has used this...
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Pergamum: Replacing Tape With Energy Efficient, Reliable, Disk-Based Archival Storage
June 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As the world moves to digital storage for archival purposes, there is an increasing demand for reliable, low-power, cost-effective, easy-to-maintain storage that can still provide adequate...
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Policy-Driven Management of Data Sets
September 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
By introducing the concept of data sets to Network Appliance management software have captured the management of physical storage containers from the data. As a result, one can now use software to...
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Verification Test With MetroCluster in a Xen Environment
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses the results of functional testing of MetroCluster in a Citrix XenServer environment. Proper operation is verified along with expected behavior during each of the test cases....
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Best Practices for File System Alignment in Virtual Environments
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides guidelines for preventing, detecting, and correcting file system misalignment issues for virtual machines hosted on VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer...
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SMB 2.0 - Next Generation CIFS Protocol in Data ONTAP
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Server Message Block (SMB) 2.0 is the next version of the Common Internet File System (CIFS)/SMB protocol. CIFS can also be considered as SMB 1.0. This paper describes the SMB 2.0 features,...
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Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery Solutions for PostgreSQL Database on NetApp Storage Systems
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As open source databases continue to grow and mature and with the continuing shift to control corporate spending, more and more corporations are turning to open source databases such as PostgreSQL...
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SnapManager 3.0 for Oracle Best Practices
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Backup, recovery, and cloning are all complicated tasks that are synonymous with Oracle database management. NetApp SnapManager for Oracle simplifies and automates these complex operations by...
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Oracle Data Masking and Regulatory Compliance Using SnapManager 3.0 for Oracle
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes how to create a master clone that has sensitive data masked using the Oracle data masking pack and SnapManager 3.0 for Oracle postclone option. It also describes how to create...
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Building a Scalable Data Warehouse Solution
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents storage architecture for an Oracle data warehouse solution. Key architectural features include scalable capacity from 30TB to over 2PB and performance up to 32GB/sec. In...
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White Papers
Enterprise Vault 8.0 E-Mail Archive Efficiency on NetApp Storage
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the methodology and architecture used to analyze the FAS deduplication performance of Symantec Enterprise Vault 8.0 on NetApp storage. Companies using Enterprise Vault on...
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White Papers
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Deployment for 2,000 to 5,000 Users Integrated With High Availability, Backups, and Disaster Recovery
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
NetApp Reference Architecture Deployment Guides assist customers in designing and deploying solutions to meet specific business requirements. A NetApp reference architecture is a deployed and...
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Benefits of FC SANs
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
As the volume and criticality of data continue to grow, companies need efficient, scalable solutions for making data available to servers, applications, and users across the enterprise. By...
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NetApp and Cisco Data Protection for Fibre Channel (FC) SANs
June 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Businesses want fast, user-initiated recovery of lost or accidentally deleted files, minimized backup and recovery windows, and fast recovery from natural or human-made disasters. NetApp and Cisco...
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Data Protection Strategies for NetApp Storage Systems
June 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Systems fail, users accidentally delete files, natural disasters occur, and mistakes happen. Throughout, businesses could lose critical data. One of the most important questions IT management...
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Looking Beyond the Hype: Evaluating Data Deduplication Solutions
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data deduplication is an important new technology that is quickly being embraced by users as they struggle to control data proliferation. By eliminating redundant data objects, an immediate...
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White Papers
NetApp and VMware Building a Virtual Infrastructure From Server to Storage
September 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This document discusses the virtual storage solutions that reduce cost, increase storage utilization, increase fault tolerance, and address the challenges of backing up and restoring VMware and...
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White Papers
NetApp Virtual File Manager - Protecting Your Data: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an overview of how NetApp Virtual File Manager can be used to deploy an automated management policy to deliver comprehensive file management services. The NetApp Virtual File...
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White Papers
Integrating SAND/DNA Software and Network Appliance Storage: Value Proposition
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the value of utilizing Network Appliance hardware and software solutions in a SAND Dynamic Nearline Architecture (SAND/DNA) for SAP Business Intelligence environment. The...
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White Papers
Scale-Out Storage and the Dynamic Data Center of the Future
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the requirements for scale-out storage in the enterprise in terms of resiliency, scalability, manageability, and other factors. It also discusses the current state of NetApp...
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White Papers
Unlocking the Value of Video Archives
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Broadcasters are having to adapt and change their operating models at a dramatic pace to accommodate new opportunities and combat new risks to their livelihood. Many organizations are now looking...
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White Papers
Ethernet Storage
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Ethernet storage based on iSCSI SAN, NAS, and in the future Fibre Channel over Ethernet is becoming more and more prevalent in data centers because of its lower cost and ease of use and the...
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White Papers
NetApp MultiStore: An Independent Security Analysis
June 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As enterprises continuously strive to consolidate resources and infrastructure, storage administrators find themselves under increasing pressure to scale up and reuse centralized storage systems,...
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White Papers
Upgrading to 8Gb Fibre Channel
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It is natural for SANs to evolve to 8Gb Fibre Channel. This paper describes the considerations involved in a 8Gb SAN infrastructure upgrade and focuses on the key benefits an organization can...
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White Papers
Virtualized Environments Using Microsoft Virtual Server and NetApp
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization provides many benefits, including stretching the IT budget, getting more out of hardware, and increasing efficiency. Through combining the storage power of NetApp, the...
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White Papers
Managing Risk: Protecting Your Archives
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper serves as an introduction to NetApp data protection service call "Cascading Snapshots". Archiving is the preferred solution to address application system performance, such as e-mail,...
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White Papers
Unified Storage Architecture Enabling Today's Dynamic Data Center
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The traditional model in the storage industry is one with multiple, incompatible storage architectures with incompatible processes requiring lots of experts. Because integration between...
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White Papers
Converged Enhanced Ethernet-Good for iSCSI SANs
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The introduction of new features to enhance the Ethernet protocol will improve the performance characteristics of storage applications. Although commonly associated with an emerging standard,...
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