On 16/05/12 01:02, Fletcher Cocquyt wrote:
This looks like exactly the level of snapshot + backup integration we've been looking for - especially for our 100's of VMs on Netapp NFS volumes.
http://www.netapp.com/us/products/protection-software/snapprotect.html
Can anyone offer any opinions on the product - especially integration with vmware and existing tape backups (eg Legato)
A quick google reveals it's a rebrand of CommVault Simpana. So NetApp has at least three different products for VM backups - VSC/SMVI, OnCommand Host/Core and SnapProtect, plus VIBE and SnapCreator.
What are your actual needs? Do you already have other SnapManager products? VSC/SMVI beats OnCommand in terms of single file restore, but requires scripting for SnapVault, and as far as I can tell both are going to be developed still. OnCommand is a nice SPOG if you have other SnapManager stuff, but OnCommand Host is pretty opaque sometimes.
Here we're using OnCommand, since it's a fairly new install, we're using SnapVault and I thought it was the natural successor to SMVI.