We currently install the legato backup client in all 350+ VMs and do nightly incremental backups with all its associated disk, network and CPU load. But this incremental data is already captured by the netapp snapshots.
It sounds like (from the product video link) SnapProtect would allow the snapshots to replace the incremental tape backups
And if there a feature to retain make a set of incremental snapshots look like a full backup we potentially decrease frequency of full tape backups - or we could do those to a Netapp SATA JBOD equivalent (with dedup enabled))
It feels, as always like there lack of integration or consolidation for these Netapp products - a missed opportunity.
You mentioned OnCommand - what feature provides backup?
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On May 15, 2012, at 6:26 PM, James Andrewartha wrote:
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.
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