NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the pioneer in intelligent data infrastructure, announced today new capabilities that optimize VMware Cloud Foundation deployments. Joint NetApp and Broadcom customers will be able to leverage NetApp solutions to fine-tune their IT environments and run VMware workloads efficiently and at scale.
For over a decade, NetApp and VMware, recently acquired by Broadcom Inc., have worked together to ensure the success of their shared customers and maximize the value of investments in VMware. NetApp has been a key partner in engineering design for VMware and continues to drive innovation in highly available, scalable, and efficient storage as a design partner for the next-generation vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols). Now, NetApp introduces new capabilities that will allow joint customers to manage their VMware deployments more efficiently.
“NetApp and Broadcom are collaborating to eliminate uncertainty in hybrid cloud environments,” said Jonsi Stefansson, Senior Vice President and CTO of NetApp. “Over 20,000 customers rely on NetApp to support their VMware workloads. The continued close collaboration between NetApp and Broadcom, following the VMware acquisition, ensures that our solutions seamlessly interoperable so that our customers can use a single intelligent data infrastructure to operate their VMware workloads more efficiently.”
NetApp is helping optimize costs, simplify operations, and increase flexibility for customers running VMware environments through:
– Expanded Support for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF): NetApp and Broadcom customers can now simplify their VCF hybrid cloud environments using NetApp’s ONTAP® software for all storage requirements, including standard and consolidated architectures. The latest release of ONTAP Tools for VMware (OTV) will support SnapMirror® active sync, providing active-active symmetric data replication capabilities for NetApp storage systems running VMware workloads. SnapMirror active sync enables customers to operate more efficiently by offloading data protection from their virtualized computing and enhancing data availability.
– New Capabilities for Azure VMware Solution (AVS): To support customers extending or migrating their vSphere workloads to the cloud, they can now leverage NetApp’s Spot Eco with AVS reserved instances to maximize the value of their deployments. Using Spot Eco to manage AVS reserved instances while utilizing Azure NetApp Files for data storage can significantly reduce compute costs.
– Enhanced VM Optimization Features for NetApp Cloud Insights: NetApp is introducing VM Optimization in Cloud Insights, expanding its comprehensive solution to optimize virtual environments, including VMware. VM Optimization in Cloud Insights will provide customers with tools to reduce costs by increasing VM density, run storage with the best price-performance ratio for their environment, and monitor their entire environment to ensure availability, performance, and compliance with best configuration practices throughout the stack. Additionally, NetApp offers customers a free 30-day trial of Cloud Insights to cost-effectively migrate to new VMware software subscriptions.
These offerings follow last month’s release of enhancements to the NetApp BlueXP™ disaster recovery service, which provides guided workflows to design and execute automated disaster recovery plans for VMware workloads in hybrid cloud environments, with added support for VMFS datastores.
“When organizations modernize their infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation, they want to ensure that industry-leading services like NetApp continue to operate seamlessly and deliver the value they expect,” said Paul Turner, VP of Products, VCF Division at Broadcom. “Having NetApp as a close collaborator helps our joint customers deploy innovative data and storage services on their private cloud platform and ensures they get the maximum value from their VMware environments.”
“We have turned Microsoft Azure into the preferred cloud for VMware environments and offer fast and cost-effective solutions that allow many customers to move their VMware workloads to the cloud,” said Brett Tanzer, VP of Product Management at Microsoft. “As VMware customers navigate changes in virtualized environment operations, we have given them a way to secure and predictable prices for several years. NetApp’s data management and cloud observability capabilities help our customers ensure that these implementations are delivering the ROI they need.”
“In an increasingly complex world of cloud operations, data, and infrastructure, IT teams are looking for holistic platforms rather than point solutions,” said Scott Sinclair, Practice Director, Enterprise Strategy Group. “These joint updates from NetApp and Broadcom allow customers to use NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure to consolidate multiple data operations into a single platform with industry-leading data management and CloudOps capabilities. This will help customers achieve greater operational and infrastructure efficiencies that reduce the total cost of ownership of their VMware investments.”