We are starting an eval of SMVI and Avamar for backup/recovery of VM's. We are planning on having snapmirrors to another filer for backup (NDMP) and or DR purposes, but are doing the sm to a local filer for now. Avamar has some good selling point, but it seems to be a waste to buy yet another storage platform. We are heavily invested in netapp now with a VTL (1400), and NetBackup.
Does anyone have any feed back? It seems to make sense to to SMVI but with Avamar I get longer retention. I was only going to keep a weeks worth of SMVI snapshots. With Avamar, it seem indefinite. The downside of the avamar is you seem to need two for going to tape.
Avamar can do the single file restores, which SMVI 2.0 is supposed to do.
Anyhow, any feedback is appreciated.