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  • Click ‘Continue’ to access NetApp Cloud Tiering Service via Cloud Manager.
  • Setup a connector to your on-premise environment and start tiering cold data.
  • Save up to 70% of high performance storage space without deleting anything!

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NetApp Cloud Tiering service extends your ONTAP-based clusters by leveraging low-cost object storage of your choice. Without compromising on manageability and performance, Cloud Tiering efficiently manages your storage pool by placing your data at the right tier at the right time. Integrated into NetApp Cloud Manager, Cloud Tiering provides full visibility and control across all your hybrid cloud storage clusters from a single endpoint.
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Discover

Identify your ONTAP-based clusters.

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Tier

Set target object store and define data tiering policies.

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Manage

Sit back and relax. You got more storage for less cost.
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How it works

  • Setup Cloud Tiering through Cloud Manager
  • Data usage is continuously monitored
  • Inactive data is tiered to an object storage
  • Tiered data is always visible and fully accessible
  • Monitor reclaimed capacity and savings
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Tiering policies

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Cold snapshots (snapshot-only)

Cold snapshots data is moved to cloud object storage.


Use case
  • Entry level tiering
  • Enables extended snapshots retention

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Cold user data & snapshots (auto)

Cold data (user and snapshot) is moved to cloud object storage.


Use case
  • Primary storage tiering
  • Optimize storage for mission critical & latency sensitive workloads

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All user data (all)

Complete volumes entirely moved to cloud object storage.


Use case
  • Secondary storage tiering
  • Expand the amount of replicated volumes for backup and DR
Cloud Tiering
in numbers

  • Optimized storage

    Average

    70%

    Savings

  • Extended capacity

    Up to

    X50

    More space

  • Reduced TCO

    Average

    30%

    Cost savings

  • Application layer

    Exactly

    0

    Refactoring

Why Cloud Tiering

Cloud Tiering turns the challenging process, of identifying and moving cold data, to an automatic and seamless on with zero changes to the applications layer.

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Challenge

Data growth is exceeding forecasts.

 

Solution

Combine local and cloud tiers to one storage pool.

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Challenge

Increased demand for high-performance storage by new workloads.

 

Solution

Optimize data allocation between storage tiers.

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Challenge

Policies and regulations mandate long-term data retention.

 

Solution

Move cold data to highly durable and inexpensive object storage.

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Challenge

Cloud migration can be complex, slow and expensive.

 

Solution

Automatically migrate data to cloud tier based on the preferred policy.

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Challenge

High-performance storage costs are rising.

 

Solution

Leverage cloud economy to reduce TCO.

Pricing

Connecting the on-prem device to object storage on an AWS allows us to not only save money but also scale our on-prem environments.

Marcus Masching Head of IT Computing Services, Festo
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The storage team wanted to extend capacity of existing infrastructure. Cloud Tiering was used to immediately tier 200 TB of snapshots and cold data to Azure Blob object storage.

Cloud Solution Architect
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100 TB of data tiered to object storage while saving money on hardware, electricity and space.

Senior Cloud Architect
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I would recommend Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Cloud Tiering to any organization looking for robust cloud storage and a way to reduce their on-prem footprint.

The organization’s Storage Admin Specialist
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Benefits

  • Zero-effort data center extension to the cloud
    • No changes to the application layer.
    • Maintain current workflow and processes.
    • Same ONTAP technology and tools.
  • Enables capacity optimization and scaling
    • Free up valuable storage space.
    • Scale your capacity by up to 50x.
    • Do more with less and add more workloads.
  • Cost reduction
    • Reduce expensive data center footprint.
    • Shift most of the data (70% on average) to low-cost object storage.
    • No upfront costs, pay as you go only for the data that is tiered.
  • Cloud adoption
    • Easy and safe first-step to a cloud strategy.
    • Mix-and-match BYOL and PayGo subscriptions.
    • AchievesuitableOPEX vs. CAPEX balance.
  • Advanced management layer
    • Unified control foron-premises and cloud storage deployments.
    • Automated data tiering processes.
    • Continues cost savings tracking.