NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Managed Service

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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Managed Service

Simplify management of your environment and optimization of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for your cloud storage across all major public clouds.

The challenge Managing and optimizing your cloud storage environment can drain internal IT resources. It can be challenging to meet the required expertise on how to manage, optimize, or scale data in the cloud while also maintaining stability, efficiency, and availability across public clouds. Your IT team must: • Manage critical workloads in the public cloud and confirm that applications run on an environment that’s monitored, maintained, and protected 24/7.

• Overcome a lack of expertise and/or resources for planning and implementing effective capacity, performance, strategies, and policies.

• Sustain a secure, high-performance, and costeffective cloud storage environment.

The solution NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Managed Service1 provides the expertise that you need to simplify and to manage your environment while optimizing your cloud storage across public clouds. Combined with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Deployment Service (a requirement), you get the ongoing management and expertise that you need to continually maintain your environment’s health. You get upgrades to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP software and tools, and you get help when you want to expand capacity, create or delete volumes, and change your tiering policies.

Maximize your Cloud Volumes ONTAP investment value With NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Managed Service, you can maximize your Cloud Volumes ONTAP deployment. You get the ongoing guidance and expertise that only NetApp experts can provide to map your Cloud Volumes ONTAP technology to your goals and requirements. With our deep cloud expertise, we can quickly and securely configure and deploy an efficient, 24/7 Cloud Volumes ONTAP environment.

1 Requires the NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Deployment Service.

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Key benefits Maximize the value of your Cloud Volumes ONTAP investment

• Benefit from guidance and expertise to manage and to map NetApp® Cloud Volumes ONTAP® technology to your organizational goals.

Maintain the ongoing health of your Cloud Volumes ONTAP environment

• Receive upgrades and version updates for Cloud Volumes ONTAP environment, plus learn how to use 24/7 monitoring, best practices for cloud storage, and change management strategies.

Optimize Cloud Volumes ONTAP performance

• Effectively optimize your Cloud Volumes ONTAP environment. Move from a reactive to a proactive IT mindset and quickly meet your changing needs for continual performance management with a secure cloud storage environment.

Maintain Cloud Volumes ONTAP environment health Our experts can remotely deliver an exceptional NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP experience, resulting in an IT shift from reactive to proactive. We can continually optimize performance by giving you the guidance that you need to expand capacity, to create new volumes, and to align with your changing goals. We also continually check the health of your environment and your data in the cloud.

We also help you enable on-premises to cloud data protection, which can result in significant savings when protecting your data.

Optimize Cloud Volumes ONTAP performance Our NetApp Professional Services cloud expertise can help your IT teams shift from a reactive to a proactive focus when managing and optimizing your NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP environment. Their guidance enables you to expand capacity, plus to make room for new volumes and to manage deleted volumes so that your system can meet and grow with your changing needs.

Get end-to-end service delivery The end-to-end NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Managed Service has a remotely managed delivery process to help you take full advantage of all ONTAP features across all major public clouds (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud). You quickly gain the performance, capacity, data protection, and disaster recovery that you need for your organization.

The methodology and process that NetApp Professional Services experts follow include: • Design. Ensure secure managed services delivery through NetApp’s framework and use of customer tools. Validate a detailed list of Cloud Volumes ONTAP instances for monitoring and management.

Configure alert settings, reporting review, communication and escalation procedures, the onboarding schedule, and activation plans.

• Implement. Configure and provision the NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP virtual infrastructure to manage Cloud Volumes ONTAP instances through the NetApp Cloud Manager interface. Create storage virtual machines, aggregates, and NetApp Snapshot™ policies. Connect LUNs to hosts through Cloud Manager and encrypt volumes with NetApp encryption solutions.

• Close out. Review project deliverables with you and deliver a certificate of completion.

Related NetApp Professional Services Related NetApp Professional Services offerings can help you get even more value from your Cloud Volumes ONTAP Managed Service: • NetApp Migration Services for cloud. Quickly and cost-effectively migrate your data from on premises to the cloud.

• NetApp Implementation for Virtual Desktop Service. Enables customers to accelerate the adoption and time-to-value of virtual desktop infrastructures. Secure your transition by quickly scaling on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure workloads to the cloud.

• NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Deployment Service. Quickly and securely deploy critical workloads on NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP across all major public clouds.

About NetApp Services Whether you’re planning your next-generation data center, need specialized know-how for a major storage deployment, or want to optimize the operational efficiency of your existing infrastructure, NetApp Services and NetApp Professional Services Certified Partners can help.

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