It looks like we’re getting funding for our DR project. The bare bones are using snapmirror to replicate an Oracle DB offsite alone with a few dozen front end/infrastructure VMs. Two of the items we’ve been quoted by our vendor are SnapDrive & SnapRestore. I can understand snaprestore but why would I need snapdrive at the DR site? I don’t even use it at our primary site, the Oracle system is very static, we do not have the hardware capacity to run a cloned instance and I’m comfortable with scripting a snapshot. I tried reading NetApp’s SnapDrive document and it looks like it will do every buzzword under the sun but I have no idea what it really gets me other than the ability to see/control snapshots from the server – which I don’t want. In addition it breaks the KISS idea which is important, especially since this system will be in another geographical location and not have as many eyes on it as a live system would.

 

Am I missing something?

 

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