NS0-005: NetApp Certified Technology Solutions Professional

NetApp Keystone is a pay-as-you-go, subscription-based storage-as-a-service offering for hybrid-cloud environments that favor operational expenditure over upfront capital expenditure. Keystone supports Cloud Volumes ONTAP cloud storage and data-management capabilities, so both are part of the offering. NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights is an observability service, while purchasing an AFF A-Series system is a capital acquisition rather than an OpEx subscription.

Active IQ Unified Manager provides policy-based storage management for provisioning ONTAP storage workloads and assigning Performance Service Levels to those workloads.

VMware vSphere uses the ESXi bare-metal hypervisor, and NetApp provides virtualization integrations for VMware environments. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization uses the KVM hypervisor and is also supported by NetApp virtualization solutions. Docker and Kubernetes provide container runtime and orchestration capabilities, not type 1 hypervisors.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed file-storage service that supports highly available Multi-AZ deployments and cross-Region disaster recovery. Its managed replication capabilities provide the required geographic resiliency without requiring the customer to operate the storage infrastructure.

BlueXP disaster recovery orchestrates disaster-recovery protection, failover, and failback for protected workloads, including failover from an on-premises VMware site to VMware Cloud on AWS. Replication alone copies data but does not provide the complete failover orchestration.