Vivien Wu

Works .. and pricy.

• March 03, 2015
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The bottom line: it fulfilled a dream/vision that we had,
Snapvaulting to the cloud, as a DR-copy away from home.

Tested:
* Snapmirror and Snapvault (8.3 RC2 to 8.3 RC2)
* NFSv3
* iSCSI
* m3.xlarge instance (initiated by the Cloud Manager) running off SSD/EBS

Cons:
* Pricey. Large instance on SSD, charged hourly: no where close to what we want to pay for just a DR-copy.
* Max usable aggr : < 6TB (~ 5.25TB usable), one raid group per aggr.
* Single SVM, no LIF failover, no HA, no ifgrp and no raid-dp.

Conclusion:
Works, but not quite what we had in mind.

We were hoping for something...cheaper?
We're not exactly the crowd who would pay to place a DR-copy on a megabuck SSD in the cloud for the footprint we have (100TB+). Hopefully, as time goes by, the product will mature and will be able to run on a smaller instance with more failover capabilities across availability-zones and support more generic EBS (non-SSD) and/or objects(S3) directly.

Perhaps that’s being addressed by SteelStore?

For now, we are going back to try out the less-hyped but seemingly more practical NCE (NDMP Cloud Extension) which is free and writes directly to S3 buckets. Thanks to NetApp's innovation and generosity as usual.

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