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.
Have you looked at Snapvault from NetApp? ----- Original Message ----- From: steve klise To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 2:16 PM Subject: Avamar VS SMVI
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.
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There was a thread here on Toasters a couple of weeks ago (or so) about SMVI. I checked and I have already deleted it. Check your email you may still have it. We will be testing it in our lab next month.
But it sounds like SMVI meets your basic requirements: you already own NetApp so you only need to buy SMVI, you are only backing up the virtual environment for one week, so why bring in EMC unless you already own it or you have bigger plans for it other than just backing up your virtual environment.
One thing we are looking at to enhance our virtual environment in addition to SMVI is adding a Performance Acceleration Module (PAM) to increase the read-only cache.
Steve
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Bill Holland hollandwl@gmail.com wrote:
Have you looked at Snapvault from NetApp?
----- Original Message ----- *From:* steve klise klises@caminomedical.org *To:* toasters@mathworks.com *Sent:* Saturday, February 07, 2009 2:16 PM *Subject:* Avamar VS SMVI
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.
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