Your Data Center Built on NetApp Architect your IT environment: ONTAP data management is there To address the need for greater IT agility, many organizations are looking to the cloud. Cloud storage is easy to spin up quickly and in small increments. However, putting valuable data in the public cloud isn’t for everyone. Retention policies might not permit data to be kept off site, and although cloud data storage is easy to deploy, the cost can escalate quickly. And retrieving or repatriating data can be expensive in terms of both time and money.
NetApp ONTAP Select offers robust enterprise storage services that are easily deployed on your choice of commodity hardware from the comfort of your own data center. It combines the best of the cloud, in terms of agility and granular capacity scaling, with the flexibility, resilience, and locality of on-premises storage.
ONTAP Select converts a server’s internal disk drives, NVMe, SSD or HDD, as well as HCI and external array storage, into an agile, flexible storage system with many of the same benefits offered by dedicated storage systems based on NetApp ONTAP. For added flexibility, you can deploy ONTAP Select on new servers or on your existing server infrastructure. ONTAP Select is easy to manage and leverages the same management software as ONTAP based solutions, which means reduced operational overhead and training requirements.
Because ONTAP Select is a software solution, you can purchase and deploy it in less than a day to get new projects up and running quickly.
ONTAP Select adapts to your capacity consumption needs with two complementary licensing models—the existing capacity tiers and the all-new, completely flexible capacity pools, which allow you to increase capacity in increments of as little as 1TB. You can start with a few terabytes and dynamically add capacity as your project grows. And if you are using capacity pools, when your project is finished, you can redistribute the capacity as you see fit. To help accelerate deployment of new projects such as file services, home directories, software development environments, and application testing, ONTAP Select is easily integrated into cloud management frameworks such as VMware vSphere.
For some projects, you might want to bring up an environment quickly to prove an idea. Later you might want to move the project to a dedicated storage platform for production deployment, or perhaps make it more accessible in the cloud as part of a development workflow. NetApp SnapMirror® software lets you easily move data between ONTAP storage across the hybrid cloud so that you can access your data where you want it, quickly and easily.
ONTAP Select is built on ONTAP storage software to deliver enterprise storage services efficiently with a highly available, shared-nothing scale-out architecture. You can deploy a solution with 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 nodes with up to 400TB of raw capacity for NFS, SMB/CIFS, and iSCSI connected storage per node. You can leverage native deduplication and compression to lower storage costs by increasing your effective capacity. The scale-out architecture enables not only high availability, but also nondisruptive data mobility for load balancing or to service hardware. ONTAP Select leverages all the robust features of ONTAP, including NetApp FlexCache® and FabricPool.
ONTAP Select MetroCluster SDS enables an automated zeroRPO solution with synchronous replication that allows nodes of an HA pair to be physically separated a maximum latency (RTT) of less than 10ms (distance independent) or 10km. Your data remains available and the services keep running even if one site goes down, ensuring site-to-site availability.
ONTAP Select includes robust integrated data protection features, including NetApp Snapshot™ and SnapMirror software. You can quickly and efficiently replicate your valuable data to other ONTAP storage, whether on the premises, at a remote site, or in the cloud. If you must recover your data quickly, NetApp SnapRestore® software can use local Snapshot copies to recover entire file systems or data volumes in seconds, regardless of the capacity or number of files.
With ONTAP Select, you can cost effectively deploy enterprise storage in various use cases, including remote locations and mobile applications, where space and IT support might be limited. The result is that your remote sites can fully participate in your shared IT infrastructure without compromise.
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