NetApp strengthens its Broadcom VMware relationship with support for VMware Cloud Foundation deployments.
Following Broadcom’s VMware Explore event, NetApp has announced new capabilities to support VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployments, strengthening its partnership with Broadcom. These enhancements will help mutual customers optimize their IT environments to run VMware workloads efficiently and effectively at scale.
For over a decade, NetApp and VMware have collaborated closely to ensure the success of their joint customers, helping them unlock the full potential of their VMware investments. This collaboration has only deepened following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, with NetApp continuing to play a vital role as an engineering design partner. As a contributor to developing highly available, scalable, and performant storage solutions, NetApp has been integral in the design of VMware’s Next-Generation vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols).
Jonsi Stefansson, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at NetApp, emphasized the strength of this partnership, stating that NetApp and Broadcom are working together to eliminate the uncertainties of hybrid cloud environments. He noted that over 20,000 customers rely on NetApp to support their VMware workloads.
NetApp is helping customers optimize costs, simplify operations, and increase flexibility in their VMware environments through several key initiatives. First, NetApp has expanded support for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). This expansion allows NetApp and Broadcom customers to simplify their VCF hybrid cloud environments by utilizing NetApp ONTAP software for all storage needs, covering both standard and consolidated architectures. The latest release of ONTAP Tools for VMware (OTV) includes support for SnapMirror active sync, providing active-active data replication capabilities for NetApp storage systems running VMware workloads. Customers benefit from improved efficiency, data protection offloading, and enhanced data availability in their virtualized compute environments.
In addition, NetApp has introduced new capabilities for Azure VMware Solution (AVS), targeting customers who are extending or migrating their vSphere workloads to the cloud. By leveraging Spot Eco by NetApp with AVS reserved instances, customers can maximize the value of their deployments. Spot Eco manages AVS reserved instances, while Azure NetApp Files offloads data storage, significantly reducing compute costs.
NetApp has also enhanced VM optimization features within its Cloud Insights platform. The introduction of Cloud Insights VM Optimization expands NetApp’s comprehensive solution for optimizing virtual environments, including VMware. This new feature provides customers with tools to reduce costs by increasing VM density, running storage at the optimal price-to-performance ratio, and monitoring their entire environment to ensure availability, performance, and adherence to best practices across the entire stack. NetApp is offering customers a free 30-day trial of Cloud Insights, helping them migrate to the new VMware software subscription program.
These offerings follow the recent release of enhancements to NetApp BlueXP disaster recovery service. The updated service provides guided workflows to design and execute automated disaster recovery plans for VMware workloads across hybrid cloud environments, with added support for VMFS datastores.
Paul Turner, Vice President of Products in the VCF Division at Broadcom, highlighted the importance of this collaboration. He noted that as organizations modernize their infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation, they want assurance that the services they rely on from industry leaders like NetApp will continue to function seamlessly and deliver the expected value. Turner emphasized that NetApp’s close collaboration with Broadcom helps mutual customers deploy innovative data and storage services on their private cloud platforms, ensuring they derive maximum value from their VMware environments.
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