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= Cisco UCS Director is a heterogeneous platform for private cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that supports a variety of hypervisors and Cisco and third-party servers, network, storage, and converged infrastructure. It simplifies IaaS, automates IT workflows, and enables hybrid IT with Cisco CloudCenter and other Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite offers. It also provides a single point of control for managing FlexPod and other converged infrastructure solutions across data center, remote, and edge environments. References = Cisco UCS Director - Cisco, Cisco UCS Director Data Sheet - Cisco, FlexPod overview and architecture - NetApp

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Keystone is NetApp's pay-as-you-grow, storage-as-a-service (STaaS) offering that delivers a seamless hybrid multicloud experience for customers who prefer opex consumption models to upfront capex or leasing.
Keystone provides storage capacity at predefined service levels for block, file, and object data types that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Keystone supports both NFS and FCP protocols for file and block data access. Keystone allows customers to align economics and operations to their business priorities and reallocate storagespending across any public clouds. References = NetApp Keystone storage as a service for the hybrid cloud, Storage as a Service - STaaS | NetApp, Learn about NetApp Keystone

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ONTAP software is a NetApp storage system that supports NVMe-over-TCP, which is a protocol that allows remote direct memory access for data using an Ethernet TCP link. ONTAP software enables customers to upgrade their iSCSI-based workloads to NVMe-over-TCP without requiring any special hardware or network changes. ONTAP software also provides other benefits such as data protection, efficiency, and scalability for SAN environments. References = Announcing NVMe/TCP for ONTAP, NetApp brings NVMe over TCP to ONTAP via the iSCSI upgrade path, What Is NVMe? - Benefits & Use Cases

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A hypervisor is a software layer that enables multiple operating systems to run on the same physical hardware by creating virtual machines (VMs) that are isolated from each other. A hypervisor abstracts the operating system from the underlying hardware, allowing for greater flexibility, efficiency, and scalability of the virtualized environment. NetApp supports several hypervisor platforms, such as VMware ESXi, KVM, and Hyper-V, and provides storage solutions that integrate with them. References = Storage virtualization overview, VMware hypervisor and hardware considerations, NetApp HCI Resources

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SnapLock Compliance is a NetApp feature that enables you to store customer financial records that are subject to SEC regulations. SnapLock Compliance provides WORM (write once, read many) functionality at the volume level, which means that files cannot be modified, deleted, or overwritten for a specified retention period. SnapLock Compliance also ensures that files are easily accessible and searchable, and that they comply with the SEC Rule 17a-4, which requires financial firms to preserve certain records in a non-rewriteable and non-erasable format. References = SnapLock Compliance overview - NetApp, An independent assessment firm validated that Azure and Office 365 can help financial firms meet SEC Rule 17a-4, SEC Rule 18a-6, FINRA 4511, & CFTC 1.31 records retention and immutable storage requirements..