Thanks for the feedback!  Aside from universal ONTAP version support, are there any other upsides to using XDP?  Depending upon which NetApp rep I ask I get differing answers on whether XDP is file-level copy or block-level.  

But again, thank you for the answers!

On Apr 11, 2019, at 1:32 PM, Tim McCarthy <tmacmd@gmail.com> wrote:

You should notice less performance impact on the source and as little bit more on the destination. After the update transfer there are some housekeeping steps that post process on the destination which uses resources.

Typing errors courtesy of GBoard

Tim McCarthy, Principal Consultant

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From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net on behalf of John Clear <jac@panix.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 1:19 PM
To: S. Eno
Cc: toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: Re: XDP v DP mirrors
 
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 01:56:05PM +0100, S. Eno via Toasters wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen benefits to using XDP mirrors? Faster? Slower?
> Better or worse network compression?

We've converted all our snapmirrors to XDP. It is slighltly slower
but the benefit of not having to worry about source/destination
versions is worth it for us since we have a bunch of clusters cross
mirroring different volumes and with DP we had to upgrade a dozen
clusters at the same in order to not break snapmirror.

John
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