Delivering architectural simplicity, fast data recovery, storage resiliency, and affordable disaster recovery
The Solutions
N series high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) storage solutions address all causes of application downtime, preventing operator errors, rapidly recovering from operator and application errors, minimising planned downtime, maximising system uptime, and recovering from disaster. N series delivers exceptional data availability with architectural simplicity, fast data recovery, storage resiliency, and affordable disaster recovery solutions that enable customers to protect more applications for less.
The Benefits
• Reduced Operator Errors: The N series unified storage architecture uses a single set of software and processes across all tiers of storage, greatly simplifying the complexities of enterprise data management. A single process for activities such as installation, provisioning, mirroring, backup, and upgrading is used throughout the entire NetApp product line, lowering administrative costs and making it easier to deploy new capabilities across all tiers of
storage, significantly reducing the opportunities for operator error.
• Rapid Recovery of Near-Current Copies of Data: Snapshot technology enables near-instantaneous, space-efficient online backups of large datasets without affecting system performance. This makes it possible to perform frequent backups at any time throughout the day, ensuring near-current copies of data. SnapRestore works with Snapshot,
enabling customers to revert an entire file system to an earlier stored Snapshot copy within seconds.
• Integrated, Simple Fault Tolerance: N series solutions are designed for resiliency at every level of the storage solution—disk drives and arrays, controllers and subsystems, and completely integrated SAN and NAS solutions. From industry-leading RAID 6 technology, RAID-DP, to fully redundant, active-active failover capability, fault tolerance is a key ingredient of every N series solution.
• Affordable Disaster Recovery: N series DR solutions are flexible and cost-effective, making it affordable for customers to cover more application tiers under a single DR plan. In addition, N series DR solutions help customers justify the cost of their DR infrastructure by making it easy to put the DR site to active business use, by offloading the production system for tape backups, application testing, and remote read access.