NetApp Optimizes VMware Environments with New Capabilities
NetApp, the original intelligent data
infrastructure company, announced new capabilities that support VMware Cloud
Foundation deployments. Mutual customers will be able to leverage NetApp
solutions to right-size their IT environments to run VMware workloads at scale
efficiently.
For more than a decade, NetApp and VMware,
recently acquired by Broadcom Inc., have collaborated to ensure the success of
their joint customers and help them unlock the full value of their VMware
investments. During that time, NetApp has been a key engineering design partner
with VMware and is continuing to drive innovation in highly available, scalable
and performant storage as a design partner for its Next-Generation vSphere Virtual
Volumes (vVols). Now, NetApp is announcing new capabilities that will enable
joint customers to run their VMware deployments more efficiently.
“NetApp and Broadcom are working together to
take the uncertainty out of hybrid cloud environments,” said Jonsi Stefansson,
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at NetApp. “More than 20,000
customers rely on NetApp to support their VMware workloads. NetApp's continued
close collaboration with Broadcom following the acquisition of VMware ensures our
solutions seamlessly interoperate so our mutual customers can leverage a single
intelligent data infrastructure to operate their VMware workloads more
efficiently.”
NetApp is helping optimize costs, simplify
operations, and increase flexibility for customers running VMware environments
by offering:
· Expanded Support for VMware Cloud
Foundation (VCF): NetApp and Broadcom customers will now be able to simplify
their VCF hybrid cloud environments by using NetApp ONTAP® software for all
storage requirements, including standard and consolidated architectures. The
latest release of ONTAP Tools for VMware (OTV) will support SnapMirror® active
sync to provide symmetric active-active data replication capabilities for
NetApp storage systems running VMware workloads. SnapMirror active sync allows
customers to operate more efficiently by offloading data protection from their
virtualized compute and improving data availability.
· New Capabilities for Azure VMware Solution
(AVS): To support customers that are extending or migrating their vSphere
workloads to the cloud, customers can now leverage Spot Eco by NetApp with AVS
reserved instances to get the most value out of their deployments. Using Spot
Eco to manage AVS reserved instances while also using Azure NetApp Files to
offload data storage can reduce compute costs significantly.
· Enhanced VM Optimization Features for
NetApp Cloud Insights: NetApp is introducing Cloud Insights VM Optimization,
expanding its comprehensive solution for optimizing virtual environments,
including VMware. Cloud Insights VM Optimization will give customers tools to
reduce costs by increasing VM density, run storage at the best
price-to-performance ratio for their environment, and monitor their entire
environment to ensure availability, performance, and adherence to configuration
best practices across the entire stack. To help customers optimize the compute,
memory and storage resources of their VMware environments, NetApp is also
offering customers a free 30-day trial of Cloud Insights to most
cost-effectively migrate to the new VMware software subscriptions.
These offerings follow last month’s release
of enhancements to NetApp BlueXP disaster recovery service, which provides
guided workflows to design and execute automated disaster recovery plans for
VMware workloads across hybrid cloud environments with newly added support for
VMFS datastores.
“As organizations modernize infrastructure
with VMware Cloud Foundation, they want to know that the services upon which
they rely from industry-leaders such as NetApp will continue to work seamlessly
and deliver the value they have come to expect,” said Paul Turner, Vice
President of Products, VCF Division at Broadcom. “Having NetApp as a close
collaborator helps our mutual customers deploy innovative data and storage
services on top of their private cloud platform, and ensure they are getting
the most value out of their VMware environments.”
“We have made Microsoft Azure the cloud of
choice for VMware environments and offer fast and cost-effective solutions
enabling many customers to move their VMware workloads to the cloud,” said
Brett Tanzer, Vice President of Product Management at Microsoft. “As VMware
customers navigate changes to operating virtualized environments, we have given
our customers a way to lock in secure and predictable pricing over multiple
years. NetApp's data management and cloud observability capabilities help our
customers ensure those deployments are delivering the return on investment they
need.”
“In an ever more complicated world of cloud,
data, and infrastructure operations, IT teams are increasingly looking for
holistic platforms over point solutions,” said Scott Sinclair, Practice
Director, Enterprise Strategy Group. “These joint updates from NetApp and
Broadcom enable customers to use NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure to
consolidate multiple data operations onto a single platform with
industry-leading data management and CloudOps capabilities. That will help
customers drive greater operational and infrastructure efficiencies that reduce
the total cost of ownership for their VMware investments.”
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