TAG | NetApp boosts virtualisation support |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 12 February 2008 | |
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This frees storage managers work at a policy and guideline level instead of being bogged down with manual tasks, and allows server administrators to do their own storage provisioning. SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure simplifies the task of backing up virtualised systems where operational windows are narrow and quick restoration may be needed. NetApp suggests customers use disk-to-disk backups to achieve the speed required, keeping around 90 days' data on disk in addition to making conventional tape archives. This strategy allows around 90 percent of restores to be made from disk in a matter of minutes, instead of time-consuming retrieval from tape. The company's storage management tools include the ability to store a single copy of data that is common to multiple VMware system images, a feature DeLandre described as "unique." NetApp also added virtualisation assessment, virtualisation architecture planning, and server and storage virtualisation services to its range of professional services. "It won't be a successful virtualisation transformation without an appropriate networked storage approach," DeLandre said. Furthermore, it has created Kilo Client, a 1500-mode diskless enterprise server farm that its partners and major clients can use to test large-scale enterprise data centre deployments. "The NetApp Kilo Client is a breakthrough architecture that pushes the limits in the testing and development of enterprise grid compute environments," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of solutions marketing at NetApp. "The Kilo Client is a technology that delivers the day-to-day business efficiencies promised by utility computing and makes those efficiencies not just a theoretical possibility, but a practical consideration for commercial usage today."
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