Top 4 Reasons to Quarantine Workloads Using a clustered Data ONTAP® Transition Zone

1. Prevent Contention

2. Understand Behavior

3. Balance Workloads

4. Maximize Utilization

Whether doing a data migration, new application installation, orsome type of move, NetApp IT isolates incoming applications ina transition zone, or quarantined area, before they go live inproduction. Application performance data is shared between theapplication and infrastructure teams to improve storage stabilityand operational efficiency. The stable workload is then movedto the shared environment (via cDOT VolMove).

How NetApp IT uses clustered Data ONTAP to ensure predictable application performance in a shared virtual environment

Production Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT)

Shared Environment

OnCommand Insight (OCI)

Transition Zone

VolMove

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