[Veritas-bu] NetApp vs. SAN Media Server

[Randy Samora]

Thanks Ed.  I'm pricing the NDMP license now and it isn't going to be
cheap.

 

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org] 
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 14:46: VIRUS ALERT!
To: Randy Samora
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetApp vs. SAN Media Server

 

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Randy Samora <Randy.Samora at stewart.com>
wrote:

	I have a Windows environment and NBU 6.5.2a.  I have a SAN Media
Server
	that houses and backs up my SQL dumps.  Those backups run the
longest
	but by far the fastest.  My SAN guys purchased a NetApp device
and have
	decided to have the SQL dumps write directly to the NetApp
device and
	implement NDMP for backups.  I have absolutely no experience
with NDMP
	so can someone out in NBU land tell me if my backups are going
to be
	slower :(   faster  :) somewhere in between  :|?


NDMP is *fast* on a NetApp filer.  We're doing NDMP directly to tape and
have also done it to DSSU.

Don't forget that you need to purchase the NDMP license.  And the
tiering is funny (even number for a single head and odd number for a
clustered filer).


With snapshots enabled on the filer, the chances are pretty good you
won't ever have to do a restore for your SQL admins.

    .../Ed 

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE 
ewilts at ewilts.org

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