NetApp provides several storage efficiency technologies including data compression, deduplication, RAID-DP, and SATA drives with flash cache. These technologies reduce the amount of physical storage needed, protect against disk failures, and improve performance. Data compression removes redundant data inline, while deduplication identifies and removes duplicate data blocks across applications. RAID-DP protects against double disk failures without sacrificing performance or requiring additional disks.

1. NetApp Storage Efficiency
Storage Efficiency Components
Microsoft®SQL Server®
Oracle® Citrix, Hyper-V , VMware® Data Compression
TM
Data Warehouse Exchange Application Servers Files
Data compression is
performed inline and
immediately reduces the
amount of stored data.
Data Compression
Deduplication
Across applications and
My AutoSupport
TM
Operations Manager protocols, deduplication
CIFS CIFS identifies, validates, and
NFS NFS removes redundant data
GbE GbE blocks from volumes for
iSCSI iSCSI
FCoE FCoE Deduplicated up to 95% disk savings.
Data
SAN SAN
RAID-DP
RAID-DP protects against
D D D D P P double disk failure
without sacrificing
Data Compression Data Compression
RAID with Double performance or adding
FC
Parity disk mirroring overhead.
Storage Efficiency Measuring and Monitoring Deduplication Deduplication
My AutoSupport FC D D D D P P D D D D P P
SATA Drives with Flash Cache
RAID-DP® RAID-DP® SATA drives provide
Web-based monitoring
SnapMirror significantly more storage
tool that offers a quick
capacity. Combined with
and easy view into the
SATA Drives with Flash Cache, they also offer
storage efficiency of Thin Replication
SATA Drives with
SATA Drives
Flash Cache Flash Cache increased performance.
My AutoSupport NetApp storage systems. with Flash Cache
Operations Manager Snapshot® Snapshot® Snapshot
Helps storage Free Space
Pool Free Space
Pool
Snapshot technology
administrators resolve App C
App B
App A
App C
App B
App A provides instant,
problems faster and Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning
point-in-time data copies
improve capacity with minimal storage
SnapVault®
Operations utilization by providing a Snapshot space.
Manager full picture of your NetApp Virtual Cloning
Virtual Cloning
storage resources. Thin Provisioning
NetApp Unified Storage System NetApp Unified Storage System Thin provisioning keeps a
Free Space
Pool
common pool of storage
readily available to all
Data Compression App C applications.
App B
App A
Deduplication Pooled Storage
V-Series Open Storage Controller
V-Series Open Storage Controller V-Series Open Storage Controller
Thin Replication
Flash Cache Thin replication enables
block-level, incremental
data backup and
SAN SAN replication for significant
Snapshot storage and bandwidth
savings.
Free Space
Pool
Thin Replication at
App C
Block Level
App B
App A
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