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NetApp reduces the cost of running VMware workloads in Google Cloud
Easily scale and protect your virtual machine (VM) data by using NetApp Cloud Volumes Service datastore support for Google Cloud VMware Engine NetApp Cloud Volumes Service datastores offer enterprises a way to dramatically reduce the cost of Google Cloud VMware Engine for use cases like application workloads, backup, and disaster recovery (DR). Clo
Easily scale and protect your virtual machine (VM) data by using NetApp Cloud Volumes Service datastore support for Google Cloud VMware Engine
NetApp Cloud Volumes Service datastores offer enterprises a way to dramatically reduce the cost of Google Cloud VMware Engine for use cases like application workloads, backup, and disaster recovery (DR). Cloud Volumes Service datastore support for Google Cloud VMware Engine separates storage and compute, allowing IT managers to scale either aspect independently to avoid costly over-provisioning of compute nodes.
Scale storage independently of compute to reduce your TCO
NetApp estimates that businesses can lower hybrid cloud-related costs by up to 30% compared with other solutions like VMware vSAN. To help estimate the total cost of ownership after deploying VMs to Google Cloud VMware Engine using Cloud Volumes Service datastores, NetApp has published a TCO calculator.
Management of datastores for disaster recovery is an ideal use case for Cloud Volumes Service. Enterprises can deploy a large datastore DR solution with a minimal 3-node vSphere cluster. As the datastore grows, IT managers can easily scale to accommodate additional storage needs without adding costly—and unnecessary—compute nodes. In other words, enterprises can leverage Cloud Volumes Service to dynamically increase performance levels, allowing them to optimize costs by rightsizing compute and storage to cover DR replication needs, and increasing either in the event of disaster.
Application support is another area in which Cloud Volumes Service can help enterprises lower costs. Using traditional solutions, storage-intensive applications such as imaging, archives, and geographic information systems (GIS) can force businesses to pay more for compute than is necessary in order to provision sufficient high-speed, high-availability storage. Cloud Volumes Service solves this issue by reducing the host count, which lowers the total cost of ownership.
Enhance performance and availability
Uncoupling storage and compute offers other benefits in addition to cost savings. For example, the platform’s design ensures that compute node failure won’t affect storage performance. Should a Google Cloud VMware Engine node fail, operations won’t be impacted as storage issues are automatically resolved and rebalanced by the solution.
Your partners and customers will gain additional benefits using fully managed Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, available in the Google Cloud Marketplace. Customers get a consistent Google Cloud experience from support to billing. Visit the NetApp overview to learn how this solution can help you and your customers increase efficiency and lower costs or schedule a VMware strategy session.
