The F5 ARX (Acopia) does support managing NetApp Snapshots.
What the customers means from snapshot support is that once a file moves to other storage it also clears the blocks which are being held by previous snapshots for that specific file. Is that what Acopia does?
Appreciate your response.
Regards, Babar Haq
In a typical setup you will configure the ARX to ignore .snapshot directories. F5 doesn't know anything about NetApp snapshots nor does it manage any NetApp functionality like snapshots.
Stefan Funke Systems Engineer NetApp Deutschland GmbH
-----Original Message----- From: Babar Haq [mailto:babarhaq@email.com] Sent: 07 June 2009 07:52 To: Bob Blair; 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: RE: HSM/ILM for Netapp
The F5 ARX (Acopia) does support managing NetApp Snapshots.
What the customers means from snapshot support is that once a file moves to other storage it also clears the blocks which are being held by previous snapshots for that specific file. Is that what Acopia does?
Appreciate your response.
Regards, Babar Haq
The F5 ARX (Acopia) does support managing NetApp Snapshots.
Babar> What the customers means from snapshot support is that once a Babar> file moves to other storage it also clears the blocks which are Babar> being held by previous snapshots for that specific file. Is Babar> that what Acopia does?
I don't see how the Acopia can do that without having to nuke the entire snapshot, as well as having full control over the blocks on the Netapp.
Now maybe the Acopia can intercept and translate where files are and make it look transparent, but I'd be hesitent to trust it.
And still, the biggest issue is backups, esp NDMP backups of your data, and then doing restores properly.
John
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