NetApp & VMware: Customer Stories

08/14/2023 Contributors

The NetApp and VMware partnership is the only partnership where a single storage system addresses all of the key VMware defined use cases.

Following are just a few of the many customer success stories made possible by the NetApp and VMware partnership. Click on the image to learn more about the customer story.

Modern & Cloud-Connected All-Flash For vSphere 8

Modern Data Storage for Cloud-Smart VMware Infrastructure

Modern Data Storage for Kubernetes

Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Operations

Be The Match: vSphere & NetApp All-Flash

Customer Challenge: Accelerate performance, mobility and recoverability of bone marrow care facilities and research applications around the world – 1PB of databases/files.

Solution: ONTAP all-flash primary storage plus backup to unified storage. SnapCenter to automate DBA policies on provisioning, copy, refresh and backup of applications.

Results: Accelerated donor/patient match performance and accelerated DevOps research sprints. Self-managed DBA operations and meet <15-minute recovery window.

Customer Quotes

“About 10 years ago we chose NetApp as our partner to help rebuild our infrastructure. And we’re now able to cure almost twice as many people per year.” – Mike McCullough, CIO at Be The Match
“We don’t have to relearn a technology. It’s the same interface, it’s the same or even more value-add capabilities in a cloud. So the benefit of sticking with NetApp is clear.” - Josh Thorstad, Data Center Services supervisor at Be The Match

Read the case study for the solution at Be The Match.

APJ Country National Banking System: The Country’s Largest Private Cloud

Customer Challenge: National go-green initiative (no paper currency) + regulate currency + support contactless payments at large scale (~40 PB capacity & 1,000+ applications)

Solution: Modernize existing infrastructure with ONTAP all-flash + SnapCenter/SnapMirror supporting VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

Results: 180 million unified payment interface (UPI) transactions per day (6M IOPs & 45 GB/s throughput). SRM + SnapMirror to replicate VMs & data. SnapCenter + Commvault for VM backup and recovery.

Move To National Cryptocurrency

The VMware Cloud Foundation and NetApp ONTAP All-Flash architecture will support the country’s shift to a new national cryptocurrency as part of the next phases of green, contactless and regulated banking.

North American Aerospace & Defense: Modern & Cloud-Connected Kubernetes Applications Infrastructure

Customer Challenge: Existing NetApp and VMware customer looking to expand to cloud for modern applications development. Cloud-native storage lacked enterprise functionality.

Solution: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO), FSxN & SnapMirror for consistent enterprise hybrid cloud at AWS supporting both VMware Tanzu and RedHat OpenShift.

Results: Consistent enterprise Kubernetes and file services storage for GovCloud leveraging the same ONTAP enterprise storage feature-set.

Flexible Options, One Consistent Platform

Support both VMware Tanzu and RedHat Kubernetes Workloads
Cloud Volumes ONTAP for customer-managed
FSxN for fully managed AWS native service
Apps development & enterprise file services

Orange Business Services: A Leading Network & Digital Integrator

Customer Challenge: Enhance reporting capabilities and cut downtime to improve its cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings running on ONTAP & vSphere

Solution: VMware Aria (vRealize) and the True Visibility Management Pack for NetApp ONTAP to provide greater discovery and reporting of storage diagnostics.