Virtual Storage Console is a NetApp offering for hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and XenServer which plugs in to their respective management UI’s. It offers a fully integrated NetApp solution to discover, provision, manage storage and clone virtual machines. VSC improves efficiency and reduces cost and complexity with comprehensive, end-to-end virtual storage management capabilities. Furthermore, it ensures optimal efficiency, uptime, and performance by checking for and configuring NetApp and hypervisor best practices settings. It’s a must-have tool for your virtualized NetApp deployments.

1. NetApp Virtual
Storage Console
(VSC)
for Hypervisors
Extend the Benefits of Virtualization with NetApp Storage
1#NetAppSynergy

2. The Best Storage for Virtualization
 Best-in-Class Data Protection
– RAID-DP, Snaphots, SnapMirror, MetroCluster
 The Most Efficient Storage
– Block level Dedupe, Clones, Thin Provisioning
 The Most Flexible IT Infrastructure
– Unified storage, Manageability, Multi-Tenancy and
Cluster-Mode
2#NetAppSynergy

3. NetApp Virtual Storage Console for
Hypervisors
 Integrated Plug-in for Hypervisors (Virtual
Center, XenCenter, RHEV-M)
 End-end Virtual storage management
capabilities
 Free download (why?!)
3#NetAppSynergy

4. NetApp Virtual Storage Console for
Hypervisors
 Discover/View
– Storage Discovery
– View and manage host settings
– Secure RBAC support
 Deploy/Clone
– Provision Storage
– VM cloning using FlexClone
– NetApp best practice settings
4#NetAppSynergy

5. NetApp Virtual Storage Console for
Hypervisors
 Maintain
– Monitor capacity utilization
– Resize Storage
– Optimize VM’s
 Protect
– Fast, Efficient Backup of VM’s
– Rapid restore
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6. NetApp Virtual Storage Console for
Hypervisors
 NetApp Storage Efficiency
– Thin Provisioning
– Dedupe
 Decommission
– Destroy Storage objects
6#NetAppSynergy

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