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for SAN Storage Environments (formally gFilers)

The industry's most comprehensive virtualisation solution to unify NAS, SAN, and IP SAN under a common architecture.

The Challenge: Maximising Storage Utilisation and Access

As enterprise storage requirements evolved from direct-attached to networked storage, many enterprises made significant investments in multiple storage architectures—DAS, SAN, and NAS—to support the different access methods required by business solutions. The result was often an inefficient and underutilised storage environment.

A critical IT management challenge is to maximise the usage of existing storage to improve efficiency and return on investment (ROI) yet continue to support different access methods for different
business solutions throughout the enterprise.

File-level usage and distributed enterprise usage of the SAN environment are ways to maximize access and usage of storage resources. Many enterprises, however, are not ready to replace  their existing storage systems with new, unified storage systems such as the NetApp FAS series of storage servers.

Instead, companies with extensive SAN storage networks are looking for ways to broaden the use of their infrastructures and achieve a greater ROI by provisioning SAN capacity for new business solutions that require NAS shared data access and remote access.

The Solution: NetApp V-Series Systems

The NetApp V-Series product line, an evolution of NetApp gFiler™, is a network-based solution that virtualises tiered, heterogeneous storage arrays. This allows you to leverage the dynamic virtualisation capabilities of Data ONTAP™ 7G software across your existing Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure to support an expanded set of business applications.

Like all NetApp storage appliances, the V-Series product line is based on the industry-proven Data ONTAP microkernel operating system, which unifies block and file storage networking paradigms under a common architecture. It offers a complete suite of NetApp advanced data management capabilities for consolidating, protecting, and recovering mission-critical data for enterprise applications and users.

The NetApp V-Series product line offers the performance and capacity to meet access requirements for enterprises of all sizes.

V-Series systems deliver industry-leading performance, offer terabytes of managed capacity, and can be configured for simultaneous active/active access with secure failover across two independent
systems in a cluster. Massive SAN and NAS consolidation is now a reality using multiple V-Series systems and SAN storage systems configured in a scalable SAN infrastructure.

The V-Series product line supports multiple enterprise storage systems. Enterprise-class Hitachi Freedom Storage™ systems provide a common storage pool for the consolidated solution. Powered by the Hi-Star™ switched architecture, Lightning 9900™ V and 9900™ series storage  systems provide massive storage scalability and consolidation for open systems and mainframe servers. Thunder 9500™ V series storage systems provide high-performance and easy-to-manage storage in a small-footprint, modular package.

The NetApp V-Series product line also supports a broad range of IBM, Hitachi Limited, and HP storage subsystems, including the IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) series, IBM TotalStorage DS4000 series, Hitachi Limited SANRISE, and HP StorageWorks XP series.

Product Range:
Network Appliance NetApp V-Series GF270c
Network Appliance NetApp V-Series GF920
Network Appliance NetApp V-Series GF940
Network Appliance NetApp V-Series GF960
Network Appliance NetApp V-Series GF980

Product Comparison (PDF link)

Network Appliance™ V-Series Storage Virtualization Solution Specifications