Thanks Ed. I’m pricing the NDMP license now and it isn’t going
to be cheap.
From: Ed Wilts
[mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 14:46: VIRUS ALERT!
To: Randy Samora
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT 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 DOT 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 DOT org
