2024-08-29 03:20:49
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the original intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced new capabilities supported by VMware Cloud Foundation deployments. Mutual customers will be able to leverage NetApp solutions to scale their IT environments and efficiently run VMware workloads at scale.
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 for VMware and continues to drive innovation in highly available, scalable, high-performance storage as the 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 eliminate uncertainty in hybrid cloud environments,” said Jonsi Stefansson, senior vice president and chief technology officer, NetApp. “More than 20,000 customers trust NetApp to support their VMware workloads. NetApp’s continued close collaboration with Broadcom following the VMware acquisition ensures that our solutions interoperate seamlessly, enabling our joint customers to leverage a single, intelligent data infrastructure to run 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 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 synchronization to provide symmetric active-active data replication capabilities for NetApp storage systems running VMware workloads. SnapMirror active synchronization enables customers to operate more efficiently by offloading data protection from their virtualized compute and improving data availability.
- New Features for Azure VMware Solution (AVS): To support customers who are extending or migrating their vSphere workloads to the cloud, customers can now leverage NetApp Spot Eco with AVS Reserved Instances to get the most value from their deployments. Using Spot Eco to manage AVS Reserved Instances while using Azure NetApp Files to offload data storage can significantly reduce compute costs.
- Enhanced VM Optimization Capabilities 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 provide customers with tools to reduce costs by increasing VM density, deploy the best price/performance storage for their environment, and monitor the entire environment to ensure availability, performance, and adherence to configuration best practices across the 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 more cost-effectively migrate to new VMware software subscriptions.
These offerings follow last month’s launch of enhancements to the NetApp BlueXP™ disaster recovery service, which provides guided workflows to design and execute automated disaster recovery plans for VMware workloads in hybrid cloud environments with newly added support for VMFS datastores.
“As organizations modernize their infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation, they want assurance that the services they rely on, delivered by industry leaders like NetApp, will continue to perform optimally and deliver the value they expect,” said Paul Turner, vice president of Products, VCF Division, Broadcom. “Having NetApp as a close partner helps our joint customers deploy innovative data and storage services on their private cloud platforms, ensuring they get the most value from their VMware environments.”
“We have made Microsoft Azure the cloud of choice for VMware environments and are delivering fast, cost-effective solutions that enable many customers to migrate their VMware workloads to the cloud,” said Brett Tanzer, vice president of Product Management at Microsoft. “As VMware customers face changes in operating virtualized environments, we are providing a way to ensure secure, predictable pricing over multiple years. NetApp’s cloud observability and data management capabilities help our customers ensure that these deployments are delivering the return on investment they need.”
“In an increasingly complex world of cloud, data and infrastructure operations, IT teams are increasingly looking for holistic platforms rather than point solutions,” said Scott Sinclair, practice director, Enterprise Strategy Group. “These joint updates from NetApp and Broadcom enable customers to leverage NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure to consolidate multiple data operations onto a single platform, with industry-leading data management and CloudOps capabilities. This will help customers drive greater operational and infrastructure efficiencies while reducing the total cost of ownership of their VMware investments.”
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NetApp is the original intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, leveraging observability and AI to enable best-in-class data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively integrated into the world’s largest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility. And our data services create an advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our CloudOps solutions deliver continuous performance and efficiency optimization through observability and AI. Regardless of data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp, you can transform your data infrastructure to realize the possibilities of your business. Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook e Instagram.
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