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“How important are the following motivations for adopting server virtualization?”

Very important Important Slightly / somewhat important

Not important Don‟t know / does not apply

Cut hardware costs 1% 43% 39% 12% 6%

Improve power and cooling 3% 21% 37% 29% 10%

Improve server manageability and flexibility

1% 41% 46% 8% 4%

Create a shared IT infrastructure

1% 27% 40% 22% 10%

Improve disaster recovery and business continuity

2% 49% 34% 12% 4%

Source: Enterprise and SMB Hardware Survey, North America and Europe, Q3 2007; Forrester Research, Inc.

Base: 197 server decision-makers at North American and European enterprises that are

interested in, are implementing in the next 12 months, or have already implemented server

virtualization for x86 servers (percentages may not total 100 because of rounding)

The BIG motivator – Lower the Cost of IT

Efficiency

Data

Protection Flexibility

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Virtual Physical Physical Virtual

NetApp Storage

Consolidates many to few

Saves money multiple ways

Efficient use of resources

Fast, simple data recovery

Barriers to Cost Reduction

10:1

8:1

7:1

5:1

4:1

First Consolidation Savings

Shared Storage Tax

Enhanced Recovery Tax

More Staff Tax

Tiered Array Licenses Tax

… More? Not what you

were expecting?

The ‘Virtualization Taxes’ Savings

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Traditional Data Growth Rate

RAID-DP

ATA

Snapshot Backups

Thin Provisioning

Zero Cost Cloning

Deduplication

NetApp

Storage

Efficiency

Compression

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Unified and Virtualized:

Network

Use any Microsoft

supported protocol

Storage

NetApp ‘pools’ disk

Disk

Virtualized flexible data

containers

Data

Zero cost copies

Ethernet

LAN iSCSI Fibre

Channel

Flexibility

CIFS NFS

Data ONTAP®

Virtualized Storage Pool

Physical Virtual Virtual

Fibre Channel

Virtualize beyond the server

To support all workloads

One Flexible

Volume

„n‟ zero cost

FlexClone

Volumes

1

Storage

required

One Flexible Volume and

multiple zero cost FlexClone volumes

nVery

fast

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1

Storage

required

Multiple Cost Volumes

n

n x (Storage per volume)

Slow

Time-consuming due to complete physical copies

Slow to provision, re-provision or repurpose

Quick provisioning with FlexVol®

Instant copies with FlexClone®

Simple commands or policies

Ideal for dynamic Microsoft Virtualized environment

NetApp VM Provisioning Traditional VM Provisioning

In Seconds

Efficiency

8

Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays Traditional Storage System

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

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DATA

APP

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DATA

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DATA

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DATA

APP

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DATA

APP

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Hyper-V™

VM Templates

• Clones are 100%

identical

• Including OS and

applications

• Clones consume

storage equal to

size of template

By design virtual environments are very redundant

Efficiency

9

Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays NetApp FAS System

Duplicate Data

Is Eliminated

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

DATA

APP

OS

Deduplication

removes

redundant data

• Supports any

storage protocol,

FC, iSCSI …..

• 50% – 70%

storage reduction

Efficiency

guaranteed!

Deduplication

Before After

Efficiency

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NetApp RAID-DP™ addresses the high availability and resiliency needs of Hyper-V™

– Protects against double disk failures

– Provides high storage utilization (87.5% by default)

– No performance impact

RAID5 RAID10 RAID-DP

Cost Low High Low

Performance Low High High

Resiliency Low Med High

Data

Protection

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After Server Virtualization…

– Multiple VMs share CPU & memory

– Sharing reduces infrastructure costs

Data

Protection

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After Server Virtualization…

– Cannot reach full potential for server consolidation with traditional backup

– Can you effectively restore?

Data

Protection

13

After Server Virtualization with NetApp Storage…

Backup is a characteristic

of the storage

Data Protection is an integrated component of virtual storage

Application integrated

Policy driven, automated

Zero performance impact

Data

Protection

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Snapshot™

Storage Suite

Server Suite

Database Suite

Application Suite

SnapManager®

for Exchange

SnapManager for

SharePoint® Server

SnapManager

for SAP®

SnapManager

for SQL Server ®

SnapManager

for Oracle®

SnapManager for

Virtual Infrastructure

SnapDrive® for

Windows®, UNIX®, Linux®

System

Manager

Operations

Manager

Provisioning

Manager

Protection

Manager

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SnapManager

for Hyper-V®

Data

Protection

Overview

Automated, application-consistent, policy based backup of Microsoft Virtual environments

Enable your virtual server admin to perform backup and recovery

Key features

Instant backup for Hyper-V environments.

– Application-consistent

– Includes application data, logs, and binaries

Rapid VM recovery

Protection policies follow VMs as they move

Automatically trigger SnapMirror replication

Data

Protection

SD

ATLPRODUCTS

ATLPRODUCTS

Backup

from array

To tape

– NetApp backups can be moved to tape

– No impact to server

– Maintains CPU & memory efficiency

Data

Protection

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Site 1 Site 2

SnapMirror®

– NetApp backups can be replicated

– Policy based replication of backup history to offsite storage

– SnapMirror® is dedupe aware preserving storage savings

– Boot and run from secondary

Data

Protection

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Protected Site (Primary Site)

Recovery Site (DR Site)

New Data Written

Before Dedup

After

Dedup

SnapMirror®

Data Deduplication

Data

Protection

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NetApp Data Protection/

Business Continuity Solutions A

va

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bilit

y

Co

st

Capability

Block-Level

Incremental

Backups

Asynchronous

Replication

LAN/WAN

Clustering

Continuous

Operations

Synchronous

Replication

Application

Recovery

Daily

Backup Snapshot™

Copies

Synchronous SnapMirror and SyncMirror®

Asynchronous SnapMirror

Synchronous

Clusters

MetroCluster

Synchronous

SnapMirror® and Clusters

SnapVault®

Local Restore Remote Restore Remote Recovery – Low RTO

SnapRestore®

Data

Protection

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– NetApp V-Series virtualizes other enterprise arrays

– Virtualizes storage as Hyper-V™ does for servers

– Protects your existing investment

– Leverages existing storage infrastructure

Site 1

Flexibility

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– V-Series enables the benefits of NetApp virtualization

– SnapManager®, Dedupe, SnapMirror®, etc

– Supports mixing with NetApp disks

– Replication supports V-Series & NetApp storage

SnapMirror®

Site 1 Site 2

Flexibility

Data

Protection

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14 Disks 14 Disks

Storage Virtualization will drive cost reductions

Calculate the Savings

Traditional Arrays

Provide Double Disk Data Protection

Provide Primary Storage

Deduplicate Primary Data

Add Hyper-V™ Disk Based Backup

16 Disks 28 Disks 9 Disks 28 Disks 11 Disks 33 Disks

NetApp

Efficiency

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Add Remote Replication

22 Disks 61 Disks

Flexibility Efficiency Data Protection

Reduce Server and Storage

Provisioning to minutes

Deduplication savings of

50% or more

Optimize your RPOs with

more frequent

instantaneous backups

Provide IP SAN, FC SAN,

and NAS on the same

storage device

Increase Storage Utilization

above 70% with thin-

provisioning

Enable DR testing in a non-

disruptive fashion

Consolidate Virtual and

Physical servers on the

same storage pool

As much as 50% savings in

power, cooling, and space

Ensure consistent policy

execution with automated

data management

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Improve the

recoverability of your

virtual infrastructure

Use 50-90% less

storage without

sacrificing Performance

Provision storage

as fast as

virtual machines

The Challenge:

Avoiding the pitfalls of uncontrolled and poorly planned

attempts at server virtualization

Customer expectations:

A smarter, more adaptive data center

Compelling cost, power/cooling, and management savings

NetApp Solution:

Virtualized storage – the foundation for a solid server

virtualization strategy to reduce cost, increase data protection,

and simplify backup & operations management

Efficiency

Data

Protection Flexibility

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