Network Appliance Inc. today unveiled software that it said can ease backup and storage management tasks for corporate IT operations running VMware Inc. virtual servers.

NetApp’s new SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure software is designed to allow IT administrators to perform backup and recovery of virtual machine instances and to take snapshots of data running on multiple virtual servers, the company said.

The new software is slated to ship in April at a price of $2,000 per physical server, said NetApp officials.

Patrick Rogers, vice president of solutions marketing at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based NetApp, said that while the initial version of the software supports only VMware virtual machines, future versions will include support for virtualization hypervisors from Microsoft Corp., Citrix Systems Inc. Virtual Iron Software Inc. and Oracle Corp. He declined to say when those versions will ship.

Rogers did say that the software can function across storage-area network and network-attached storage architectures.

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