Solution Brief

VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management on NetApp Solution: Enabling Efficient, Flexible Clouds
KEY BENEFITS

Gain faster time to market with on-demand, automated provisioning of service offerings. Simplify backup and recovery for your cloud with intelligent, policy-based data protection. Improve management and operational efficiencies with integrated end-to-end cloud management.

Making the Transition to the Cloud Infrastructure complexity and manual processes make it an ongoing challenge for IT to keep up with the needs of the business. Virtualization goes a long way toward maximizing the responsiveness of IT to business needs through increased agility while solving the problems of underutilized assets, overburdened power, cooling resources, and high administrator-to-asset ratios. These optimized resources are the foundation for delivering cloud services. Cloud environments offer a way to extend virtualized infrastructures to an IT service driven model. This approach enables enterprises and service providers to procure and deliver IT services on demand for faster response to business needs, reduced costs, and simplified management. The transformation to cloud computing allows you to expand your focus beyond the infrastructure optimization provided by virtualization to include management efficiencies and service optimization necessary for the cloud.

In addition, you need integrated data protection that helps you deliver unparalleled uptime, plus automation and simplicity for managing end-to-end cloud resources from a single management and orchestration platform. The Solution NetApp and VMwareleaders in storage and data management and virtualization solutions, respectivelyshare a common vision to accelerate the path to the cloud through advanced virtualization, automation, and self-service. The VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp solution combines innovative technologies and best practices to enable enterprises and service providers to rapidly deploy an integrated cloud solution built on a virtualized, shared IT infrastructure. The combination of our industry-leading storage efficiency, virtualization, and cloud technologies provides a solid foundation for evolving to the cloud to deliver IT as a service for increasing business agility while reducing costs and complexity.

Zumasys helps companies of every size save money by transitioning their infrastructure and applications to the cloud. Using the proven cloud infrastructure and management solutions from VMware and NetApp, our customers can dynamically scale their businesses and automatically self-provision server and storage resources. Customers can choose to keep some applications onsite, some in a public cloud, and some on the Zumasys platform with portability between locations. With this solution, we can provide a more flexible and affordable path to the cloud for our customers.
Paul Giobbi President, Zumasys

Secure, Efficient, Shared Multi-Tenant Environment The solution features the NetApp Unified Storage Architecture and the Data ONTAP operating system, which spans across all NetApp storage systems in private, public, or hybrid cloud environments. The solution provides a single, unified storage platform that supports multiple protocols (FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS) and diverse workloads and can meet changing requirements without requiring forklift upgrades. Multiprotocol access to a single pool of storage brings maximum efficiency and flexibility to your VMware vCloud Director services. NetApp MultiStore provides secure multi-tenancy in shared IT infrastructures. This solution includes the ability to partition shared virtualized storage and server resources and securely isolate the partitions to meet the needs of individual tenants (applications, departments, business units, virtual data centers, or customers). NetApp MultiStore software complements VMware vShield Edge by enabling data for multiple tenants to reside on a single NetApp array. It simultaneously provides the ability to establish secure partitions and unique service levels for each tenant. Because each partition is treated as a separate virtual storage system, multi-tenancy can be used to improve both storage utilization and

quality-of-service management for each tenant residing on the array. Storage resources assigned to each tenant can also be dynamically resized to meet changing business demands without compromising security or SLAs. By extending security, flexibility, and service efficiencies across the server and storage infrastructure, secure multi-tenancy facilitates a dynamic shared environment that serves as a foundation for cloud computing. Respond Faster to the Business with Agile Access and Portability With our solution, the NetApp OnCommand management software portfolio is tightly integrated with the VMware vCloud Director and the VMware vCenter Server platform. You can automate provisioning of infrastructure resources from a single pane of glass, leveraging VMware vCenter Orchestrator and NetApp OnCommand service catalog integration. As new tenants are added or when demand from an existing tenant grows, NetApp storage resources can be automatically expanded from within VMware vCenter Server. The integration with the VMware vCenter Server management platform enables access to shared storage capabilities through a single console. This gives you complete visibility and control across all infrastructure services,

reducing overhead and providing process efficiencies. NetApp OnCommand provides cross-domain visibility to facilitate more accurate forecasting and capacity planning and faster troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. You get visibility into the actual service paths, resource usage, and end-to-end monitoring for virtual servers, physical servers, and storage devices as well as VM volume and datastore information all from a VMware vCenter Server console. A combination of trend-based projections and real-time information helps you prevent overprovisioning and performance bottlenecks and accelerates management decisions. You can also generate advanced reporting including capacity utilization statistics, protocol usage, I/O performance, and infrastructure metrics. This data can then be used for showback or integration with VMware vCenter Chargeback to enable chargeback to tenants. NetApp open APIs enable our technologies to be easily integrated at a higher abstraction layer. That lets you create custom workflows for automated storage provisioning and data protection to be driven by your VMware vCloud Director software without exposing the complexity of the underlying operations. You can make these capabilities available to users of IT resources by creating a Web-based

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self-service portal from VMware vCloud Director that provides direct access to the NetApp OnCommand storage service catalog. A user simply selects a service level offering from a pull-down menu on the self-service portal and enters the service request. The provisioning process is automated, saving considerable time and improving productivity. For always-on availability, our solution features NetApp DataMotion, a data mobility capability that allows live migration of secure multi-tenant containers from one storage controller to another. DataMotion enables adjustment of service levels with on-demand load balancing and no downtime for maintenance, technology refreshes, or software upgrades. With the combined capabilities of VMware vCloud Connector and VMware VMotion with NetApp DataMotion, you can intelligently monitor, manage, and balance VM and storage resource allocation, respond to changing demands, and deliver continuous service across your private, public, and hybrid cloud infrastructures. Run Applications with Confidence with Integrated Data Protection and High Performance The solution includes NetApp integrated data protection capabilities, enabling you to deliver on your SLAs. Our integration with VMware vCloud

Director enables instant, space-efficient, point-in-time backup copies to be scheduled, automatically created, and managed from a single VMware vCloud Director interface. You can configure backups to occur at the level of a vCloud organization, a vApp service, or an individual datastore. Data can be restored within minutes at multiple levels of granularity. To further simplify management, data protection policies are applied as vApp services are created and remain applied even if vApps are migrated within the cloud infrastructure. This capability is unique to NetApps integrated data protection capability. You can make your VMs perform better and with greater flexibility using NetApp FlashCache and FlexShare software. FlashCache is a deduplication-aware, solid-state module that offers a way to improve read rates and reduce latency. FlashCache is particularly effective at improving performance for readintensive random I/O applications, including VMware vCloud. FlexShare helps increase virtual resource utilization without affecting the performance of workloads. FlexShare enables an increase in virtual resource utilization without impacting the performance of business-critical workloads. With FlexShare, you can also provide quality

of service for datastores belonging to different provider vDCs. This enables you to consolidate multiple tenant environments and applications and then prioritize them based on service-level requirements. Partnering for Your Success The VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp solution combines the best of storage efficiencies, virtualization, and cloud technologies. This enables you to implement the core capabilities required for cloud computing, including automated ondemand provisioning, integrated data protection, and centralized cloud management. You can meet both SLA and security needs with secure multitenancy and provide always-on operations with data mobility across clouds. Learn more at netapp.com/us/ solutions/infrastructure/vmware-cloudinfrastructure.html. About NetApp NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com. Go further, faster

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