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?


thanks

Go Kings!
 

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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