NetApp and VMware
Any workload, any app, anywhere
Address the challenges of today and strategically prepare for the future with an intelligent data infrastructure for VMware.
Introducing new capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundation:
Use NetApp ONTAP for all your VMware Cloud Foundation storage requirements. Empower storage and VM administrators with deeper insights into performance, issue detection, and efficient trouble shooting with Data Infrastructure Insights.
Monitor and optimize
With full stack observability of your virtualized infrastructure, you can proactively reduce waste, maximize utilization, right-size workloads, and balance infrastructure across your hybrid-cloud resources.
VMware and your choice of public cloud
No other data infrastructure provider can support VMware workloads both on-premises and in the cloud on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Thor Motor Coach
30% reduction on infrastructure costs
45% reduction on monthly networking costs
100% reliability
“We’re a vastly different organization that we were before the transformation – faster, more nimble, and cost-effective.”
Scot Sibert | Director of IT
Sheela Foam
2x storage performance improvement
Unplanned downtime eliminate
“NetApp systems are very dependable, and it’s helped everyone at Sheela Foam sleep better at night.”
Pertisth Mankotia | CIO
University of West Florida
“We have all of the Oracle databases for ERP. We have all of our other databases for homegrown applications, VMware for the enterprise applications. Citrix for students. All of that runs on NetApp. It's resilient. It's scalable.”
Carl Howell | Lead Enterprise Systems Engineer
ECS
“Our NetApp and VMware architecture is critical to our resilience and availability. The performance and reliability of our NetApp storage bolsters the success of the rest of our solution. With the performance increases in the latest generation of NetApp hardware using NVMe drives, we were able to condense our footprint down to a single controller.”
Mark Maglin | VP, DoD Cybersecurity
Explore further
How does NetApp integrate with VMware Cloud Foundation?
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a hybrid cloud platform for both traditional enterprise and modern applications. Built on VMware’s software-defined stack for compute, storage, network, container, and cloud management. NetApp ONTAP supports VCF on-premises and in cloud on AWS, GCP, and Azure, helping to lower TCO and deliver leading storage capabilities.
How do VMware datastores with NetApp work?
Seven protocols are used to connect VMware vSphere to datastores on a system running ONTAP
How does NetApp integrate with vSphere?
vSphere is the product name VMware's suite of server virtualization products that includes its ESXi hypervisor and vCenter management software.
Whare are my options for transitioning away from vVols?
Given the recent announcement on the deprecation of vVols for vSphere 9.0 and VCF 9.0, many customers are faced with a decision on how to transition away from vVols while maintaining existing storage capabilities. NetApp delivers multiple options, allowing you to manage your data and storage any way you want.
Why is NVMe over TCP important to VMs?
For VM’s running on NVMe over TCP, you can reduce CPU utilization and gain performance and reliability with NVMe coupled with Virtual Volumes on NetApp for scalability, simplicity, and automation.
What is hybrid multicloud with VMware & NetApp?
No other infrastructure provider can support workloads on VMware both on-premises and in the cloud, any cloud. NetApp is the first infrastructure provider to support VMware in the cloud on AWS, MS Azure and Google Cloud.
