SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure

Automate data management of your virtual infrastructure with operational efficiency and empower your VMware administrator.

SnapManager® for Virtual Infrastructure provides storage and virtual infrastructure administrators with an automated solution for data protection and recovery of virtual machines in a VMware® ESX environment. 

In addition to providing simplification and automation of the storage administrator tasks, SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure empowers virtual infrastructure administrators to carry out virtual machines backup and recovery by themselves, within the policies set by the storage administrator.

Traditional physical and/or virtual server backups are CPU intensive and time consuming and use up too much extra storage. SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure is removing these constraints by relying on NetApp Snapshot™ technology, which frees the servers for application-related workloads and provides granular restore capabilities at the virtual machine level.
Server virtualization, which contributes to the reduction of data center cost by increasing server asset utilization, has introduced a new set of challenges when it comes to data protection, business continuity, and provisioning.

The demand placed on traditional backup and DR in a virtualized environment can easily exceed the server and I/O capacity of the physical servers. Additionally, the mobility of virtual machines requires new levels of operational agility to manage the storage environment.

When managing multiple ESX servers, virtual infrastructure administrators can now rely on a seamless solution to centrally manage backups, recovery, and replication through an easy-to-use user interface, within the context and the framework of server virtualization with which they are familiar. Because NetApp Snapshot, SnapRestore®, and SnapMirror® are integrated in an easy-to use user interface, the VMware administrator is now empowered with robust data protection capabilities that have now become VM aware through SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure.

When managing the VMware ESX server environment and delivering the services necessary to support business needs, the VMware administrator can now rely on a seamless solution to protect and manage the virtual infrastructure environment:

• Automated data protection of data stores with granular recovery at the virtual machine level.
• Increased server utilization by eliminating interruptions and performance impact caused by the backup window. NetApp Snapshot and SnapRestore storage-based technology provides data protection and data recovery without any impact on the servers.
• Replication of data stores through NetApp SnapMirror, enabling DR.
  Easy-to-use user interface.