This document explores some of the common challenges Windows® architects and administrators face in managing storage for Microsoft® environments with workloads such as:
• Microsoft Exchange Server,
• Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server,
• Microsoft SQL Serv
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Storage for Microsoft®Windows Enfironments
1. Storage for Windows Environments
This document explores some of the common challenges Windows® architects and administrators face in managing storage for
Microsoft® environments with workloads such as:
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server
• Microsoft SQL Server®
• Windows File Services
• Server and desktop virtualization
Activity Challenges NetApp Solution
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and storage database, DAS, and SAN storage storage silos with the right NetApp® platform including the price-
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inefficiency, infrastructure • Improve your storage efficiency by doubling utilization.
complexity, insufficient data • Meet rapid data growth needs and improve utilization with NetApp’s
protection, poor availability, long unified storage architecture, pooled storage, thin provisioning, and
deployment times, higher costs, FlexVol®.
lower productivity, and poor • Compress data files at the block level to further increase storage
resource utilization. efficiency using integrated deduplication for primary storage and
• Explosive growth in deployments of backups. Use deduplication to reduce storage needs by an extra 30%
Microsoft applications, presenting or more in certain environments.
increasing challenges to network,
storage, and systems
administrators.
Simplify data • Managing applications, patches, • Implement policies to automate data and infrastructure management
and storage antivirus, backup, security, data, with NetApp’s suite of manageability tools, including System Manager,
infrastructure services, and storage resulting in VFM® (Virtual File Manager™), Single Mailbox Recovery, and various
management high overheads and inadequate SnapManager® products to reduce management overhead by
storage services. eliminating Windows server and storage proliferation by as much as
• Integrating disparate data in 60%.
existing environments can be time • Automate daily tasks with policies to reduce speed time to deployment
consuming. from days to hours and reduce the number of interfaces.
• Enable Windows server and application administrators to directly
manage all Windows storage without having to constantly rely on
storage administrators.
Protect vital data • Long, infrequent, and disruptive • Create more frequent backups of all your Windows storage, so that you
files with backups with end-user and better protection using Snapshot™ without the headaches of traditional
backups in both application disruptions and high solutions.
central and overhead. • Eliminate unreliable tape in your backup solution with SnapVault® and
remote office • Minimize the use of unreliable tape Open Systems SnapVault, which enable a centralized disk-to-disk
locations in the backup environment. backup solution allowing you to securely retain backup images for as
• Backing up data is network- long as needed.
intensive and can bog down other • Efficiently archive data and backups to SATA using SnapMirror® and
applications and workloads. SnapVault where only data changes are transmitted over the network.
• Need a solution for not only the • Eliminate remote backup infrastructure and administration with Open
data center, but also remote Systems SnapVault and centralized management that scales to
offices. thousands of sites, making efficient use of your resources.
Restore backed- • Restoring data is time consuming • Allow server and desktop administrators and even end users to quickly
up data and requires coordinating between restore data directly without having to rely on storage and backup
different groups. administrators, eliminating ambiguity and potential for errors.
• Avoid tape bingo on guessing if the • Avoid going back to tape and instead restore for an online backup