Netapp Rapid Cloning Utility v3.0

DavidWarburton — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:02:01 +0000

Netapp have released their new version of their Rapid Cloning Utility – a vCenter plugin which allows you to provision and new datastores and clone hosts (including VMware View 4 VDI’s) with ease right inside of the Virtual Infrastructure Client. vCenter 4 is needed but it is compatible with ESX 3.5 and 4.

The great thing is that all the storage processing is offloaded from vCenter and is performed entirely on the filers. I’ve not had a chance to play with the RCU yet but this just looks utterly awesome! Check out this preview blog post and video from Netapp:

http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualstorageguy/2009/12/preview-rapid-cloning-utility-30-vcenter-plug-in.html

If you don’t have time to sit and read, then at least check out the video. I dare you not to be impressed!

Do any other storage vendors have similar tools?

Source: http://www.ntapgeek.com/2010/02/netapp-updates-rcu-for-vmware-vsphere-4.html

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Netapp Rapid Cloning Utility v3.0