As it was mentioned before, you can use SSET to measure efficiency of NetApp technologies with your dataset. Last version of SSET support inline data compaction. You can download SSET from Utility Toolchest http://mysupport.netapp.com/tools/index.html
And here is some information about the guarantee:
"The total effective storage capacity ratio is calculated based on compression, deduplication, compaction, snapshots and clones on the dataset.
Although all volumes (new and migrated ones) need to be thinly provisioned, thin provisioning is not included in measuring the total effective storage capacity ratio."
"The guarantee is for all workloads running on All Flash FAS systems. The AFF Systems can be added to the new cluster provided they adhere to the NetApp Storage Efficiency technologies. However, already compressed data and encrypted data is excluded from the guarantee. "
Just ask sales to show you program Terms and Conditions.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Ray Van Dolson rvandolson@esri.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 03:21:02PM -0400, jordan slingerland wrote:
hose sales folks may be misunderstanding the details. Ask to see the details of the guarantee, and read for yourself.
I agree. Thanks for all the responses, much more inline with what I
would
think. My data is not video or audio, but I did bring that up to the
sales
guys and very specifically they said they could get 4:1 on it. In fact
the
only example dataset they had any hesitation on promising verbally was
the
output of /dev/urandom. I call BS. Don't get me wrong, ontap9 on AFF
sounds
like it contains a lot of great incremental improvement and I am
excited to
try one out. I just prefer realistic promises.
--Jordan
As other's have mentioned, it's likely more about matching up with the marketing of competitors. Just about everyone has a data reduction guarantee now with the same asterisks and strings attached.
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