NetApp AutoSupport technology monitors customer storage environments and provides intelligence to optimize storage. The amount of data received doubles every 16 months, so NetApp IT sought a more flexible archiving solution. They expanded their one-tier system to a three-tier solution with hot, warm, and cold tiers to automatically migrate older data and keep recent data accessible. Data older than 12 months is cold archived for cost savings, 6-12 months is warm for performance and cost, and under 6 months is hot for performance.

1. COLD HOT
NetApp IT’s
Tiered Archive
Approach
for Active IQ
NetApp AutoSupport®
technology proactively monitors
the health of NetApp systems
installed at customer’s location
and provides 24/7 actionable
intelligence to optimize their
storage environment. The
amount of data received back to
NetApp doubles approximately
every 16 months. To manage the
swelling waves of data to
archive, NetApp IT sought a
more flexible solution.
DATA
POINTS
PER DAY
INSTALLED
BASE
TIERS
DEFINED
Any data older than 12
months is cold.
Optimized for cost
savings and simplicity.
Data that is 6 to 12
months old is warm.
Optimized for
performance and cost
savings.
Any data up to 6
months old is hot.
Optimized for
performance and
efficiency.
STORAGE
CAPACITY
The IT Challenge
NetApp expanded its one-tier system by adding an archive
tier for “cold” data and a more responsive tier for “hot” data.
The solution’s scripts automatically migrate older data,
keeping the most current data easily accessible.
A Three-Tier Solution
Optimizing Efficiency and Cost
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All-flash performance with
deduplication and compression
technology reduces the overall
space demands by 66%—even
for the tier of hot data.
NetApp IT copied anything older than a
year from the data lake into NetApp
StorageGRID, and reduced server
licensing costs by at least 40%.
NetApp StorageGRID also gives
operation teams less to worry about by
allowing the team to reduce every 100
nodes to only 33 nodes.
REDUCTION IN
LICENSING COST
LESS SPACE
OCCUPIED
IN OPERATIONAL
EFFICIENCY
PRODUCTS
USED
Multi-tier solutions are often built on servers,
resulting in a huge footprint and a lot of licensing.
Avoiding this potentially wasteful approach, IT
completely decoupled storage from servers, so
that data movement between tiers will not use
server CPU cycles. This approach, along with
NetApp products, achieves a solution that saves
space and money compared to any other
multi-tier solution.