The 50% Virtualization Guarantee Program Technical Guide

With the cost of doing business rising every day, organizations are looking for ways to reduce overhead and consolidate resources into a single, easy-to-manage environment. With the amount of information and data doubling yearly in many organizations, storage has become a key component to doing business in today's marketplace. By employing RAID-DP, Snapshot copies, deduplication, and thin provisioning in a V-Series/FAS system, NetApp can offer Customers a 50% reduction in space in a virtual environment. NetApp is confident that Customers who follow the guidelines in this paper will achieve the same high degree of success with the storage in a virtual environment that many other Customers have achieved.