NetApp supports new iSCSI host software

BANGALORE: Network Appliance, Inc. today announced support for iSCSI software boot-from-SAN capabilities from Microsoft and qualifies its iSCSI storage solutions with the new native iSCSI software stacks for Solaris 10 and Linux.

These capabilities increase the iSCSI market opportunity by providing available solutions for high-density server and departmental UNIX environments.

Today's announcements extend the NetApp lead in IP SAN, empowering customers with choice, flexibility, and risk reduction, the company said in a statement.

NetAppIP SAN storage systems using iSCSI are ideally for consolidating and protecting and managing data stored on direct-attached storage. In a direct-attached environment, data growth and server proliferation lead to management nightmares as administrators struggle with backup and recovery, scalability, and provisioning issues.

As the applications on direct-attached servers become more important to the business, the legacy storage environment is simply unable to meet the data availability requirements of the business. The situation is particularly severe in environments consisting of lots of smaller servers.

NetApp is working with server partners to ensure that complete end-to-end IP SAN solutions for Windows using Microsoft iSCSI software boot-from-SAN capabilities are qualified under the Microsoft Windows catalog process.

In a separate initiative NetApp has qualified the iSCSI software initiator and the native MPxIO multipathing driver for Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10.

This will enable NetApp customers to benefit from IP SAN solutions for its Sun server farms.

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