NetApp SnapMirror Reviews

It's a simple and efficient tool to build a disaster recovery solution that involves many applications such as Oracle, SQL, VMware, and Hyper-V.

We have a VMware environment and many NFS exports to Linux servers which are easy to replicate. If we lose the main environment, we can restore all the applications to the recovery site to the appointed LUNs, and then the NFS servers to another server using storage from the DR site.

With VMware, this is very simple because you replicate the identical volume where it is stored in your datastore. I think that recovery for VMware is too simple and you don't need any tool to support this procedure, only directing the LUNs to another ESXi and executing the procedure inside VMware to mount datastore.

In the Oracle environment, the procedure to restore the database on the recovery site is simple as well.

I think that NetApp needs to improve the performance of SnapMirror with controller volume access. This is because when you have many SnapMirror jobs running, the controllers give priority to accessing volumes and transfers remain slow. It is very difficult to understand how to change this in 7-Mode.

I have used this solution by more than 8 years.

If you have to replicate a database environment, you have to put your database into backup mode before starting the replication. If you don't do this step the data will stay corrupted when you need to use replica on site the DR.

No issue if you follow best practices and understant your replicated application/solution...

10

10

Yes i have used solution from HDS and Fujitsu and the company accquire Netapp and so their dont back more .

The initial setup is too simple because Netapp integrated the configuration snapmirror on the oncommand system manager.

I have implemented this solution since i started my working with Netapp solutions

You must understand your environment to implement any replicated solution, talk to business area before implemented and design your Disastery Recovery .

We primarily use the solution for replicating data in the storage system.

Overall, the product is very good. It's an easy to use tool.

The user interface could be simplified. They might want to have fewer options on it, to make it less complicated. There are a lot of options we never use ourselves. They're often very specialized and don't apply to us.

The solution is very stable.

The solution is scalable. We have about 700 users on it currently.

Technical support is very good.

The initial setup is complex.

We had a local partner that helped us with the initial implementation.

We use the on-premises deployment model.

Overall, we've been very happy with this solution. We'd recommend it to others to use.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

We are using the solution to backup our two data centers between our location site and our data center in Milan, and, in both directions: from Grassobio to Milan and from Milan to Grassobio. From the customer's side, we are storing all of our customer's data as an application in our cluster on our data center.

There are a lot of features that are excellent. The data compression during the transfer, for example, is good. The replication is great. The durability of the solution and the speed of the data moving from one site to another is impressive. 

At the moment, we are not using the synchronous mirror, but we can implement the synchronous mirror. The only thing is that it needs another license. This is the same issue we have with business continuity. It needs another license to be implemented. You need too many separate licenses for the features. They should add some of the aspects of the premium bundle into the basic bundle. Sometimes our customers choose other replication services because of the initial cost of the licenses.

The solution is very stable.

The solution is very flexible. We can move the destination from one site to another, or from one cluster to another without cascading the relationship, so transitioning is quite easy. 

Technical support is quite good. For example, I've had an issue in the past, and within a few minutes, with a chat, the issue was solved.

I did not previously use another solution.

Previous earlier versions of the solution had quite complex setups. Now, you can perform the cluster peer SQL replication or from the GUI so it's become quite easy and quite quick. Once you have stated the replication volume, etc., and the clusters are aligned, it takes a minute to implement. Of course, that's once your network requirements are specified.

We handled the implementation ourselves.

We are running multiple versions of the solution, including 9.3, 9.5 and 9.6 versions, and, sometimes, we are migrating from 8.2 version of 7-Mode to 9.3 or 9.5 version of NetApp Cluster Telnet.

We're a NetApp partner. 

We use a private cloud deployment model ourselves and we are also a service provider for our customers.

It's quite stable, it's not that easy to implement, but it's stable, and it's reliable, and all the data that's on the destination are read-only so there is also extra security.

I would advise it would be a good idea to implement it with VMware. It would make good base for disaster recovery.  

I would rate the solution ten out of ten. It's really reliable.

Its ability to transfer data retaining its complete integrity, access, permission etc.

We have migrated data from old and expiring Netapp hardware using Snapmirror - thereby allowing us to decomm the old hardware and save power, maintainence, cost etc.

None for now.

8 years.

None.

None.

Excellent. None of the users whose data has been migrated using Snapmirrot have ever complained back to us.

10/10, just like any Netapp support.

No - this is the best tool from Netapp and we never thought of any other tool. In fact, all additional features like Netapp Datamotion for vfilers use SnapMirror as their backend.

Straight forward - infact just 3-4 commands can effectively deliver the power of Snapmirror.

Obviously in-house.

100%.

No idea. I am a technical guy and dont get into finances.

None. This technology has been in place for last 10 years as I know and I have personally worked 8+ years on it.

We primarily use the solution for the infrastructure and for backup replication.

The user interface is very easy to manage. The replication is also very easy to set up.

The new coursework models need to be improved. The bandwidth monitoring could also be better.

The solution is very stable.

The solution is very scalable. We don't have plans to increase usage at this time, however.

Technical support is excellent. We're very satisfied.

We did previously use a different solution. We switched because the cost was so high.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward.

We had a consultant assist us in the implementation of the solution.

We use the on-premises deployment model.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

It provides block-based replication of data from the primary system to the disaster recovery systems. It’s fast and doesn’t take a lot of bandwidth, and it transfers everything including data and snapshots. Also, the clustered Data ONTAP is valuable.

It's very robust, very fast, and very easy to set up.

On very large data sets with a lot of changes, the interval between mirrors can be rather long.

I've used it for 10 years.

It has been 100% stable.

I can’t say how far it goes, but I haven’t run into problems yet. It’s very scalable, although on very large data sets with a lot of changes, the interval between mirrors can be rather long.

Technical support is very good.

No previous solution was used.

Initial setup was very easy as it’s part of our Data ONTAP system, so we just select our source and destination volumes, click initialize, and that’s it.

Keep in mind that is an asynchronous replication solution, so the destination will always lag behind compared to the source. If you can live with that, then it’s a perfect solution.

The primary use case of this solution is as a storage device. 

The deployment model we are using is on a private cloud.

NetApp is one of the best products in this field of storage solutions.

The price needs to be improved. It is not that it is too high, but it would be good to be reduced.

There is new technology available that is using storage called NVMe with the drives. We are now using a scanning device called a Standard SATA Drive.

I am satisfied with the technical support.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Administration of Netapp Snapmirror and Netapp Storage through CLI or Oncommand manager is the best.

Creation of any size of storage LUN and replication of the same with Snapmirror environment is most valuable.

I can not say much, but obviously Netapp came out with different types of GUI based management tools for Performance management and Replication Management which has made acceptability of Netapp environment better than earlier.

I must say that Netapp will have to come out with Better performance and Faster Data replication technologies.

We have been using Netapp Storage and Snapmirror for 4 Years for Banking Domain applications, I have also seen that many clients using Netapp Snapmirror for Messaging as well.

About about a year now we have faced random issues related power supply or auto failover failback issue which was related to bugs in Firmware.

No, it's very good.

I would rate is with 3 as India Support which I am experiencing is not that good when compared to EMC.

I would also rate is with 3.

It is straightforward in terms of LUNs,NFS and CIFS with Snapmirror at DR.

Vendor Team - Yes Experience was good

I am not aware of it as I am the administrator, Client used to manage costs.

Of course. We checked for EMC's VNX and Hitachi's HNAS.