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NetApp Backup and Recovery Solutions

Protect your critical enterprise applications with a modern approach to backup and recovery. NetApp integrated data protection and enterprise management technologies deliver industry-leading backup and recovery.

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NetApp Backup and Recovery Solutions

Protect your most critical enterprise data with confidence. NetApp integrated data protection and enterprise management technologies deliver industry-leading backup and recovery for:

  • Enterprise databases, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, SAP HANA, and more
  • VMware virtual environments
When you deploy NetApp primary storage with NetApp SnapCenter® backup management software backing up to a secondary NetApp target, you gain a rich data management environment that is enhanced by the underlying capabilities of NetApp ONTAP data management software.

NetApp Backup and Recovery Solutions overview

Features and Benefits

The capabilities that set NetApp Backup and Recovery Solutions apart.

The Challenge

Managing Diverse IT Environments

Protecting data is one of the top concerns of any IT manager. As applications proliferate and the organization grows, managing a diverse IT environment can be a real challenge. This challenge is especially evident for organizations that have application, database, and backup specialists who are required to back up the company's data but might not be responsible for the storage infrastructure.

Limitations of Traditional Backup

Traditional backup and restore technologies that are based on streaming data protection devices, such as tape or streaming disk devices that emulate tape, can be slow and resource-intensive. These devices can ingest large amounts of data, but it can be difficult or time-consuming to restore or to retrieve that data from them.

Protect All Your Critical Data

Maximize Recoverability

Maximize recoverability by enabling state-consistent backups at all levels.

Massive Scale

Scale to protect thousands of hosted applications.

Single Interface Backup Management

Simplify backup management with a single interface for leading enterprise applications, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, and SAP HANA, as well as custom applications.

REST API Integration

Use REST APIs to integrate with cloud orchestrators.

Application-Consistent Snapshot Copies

SnapCenter creates application-consistent Snapshot copies to safeguard against corrupted data blocks in the event of a failure. SnapCenter quiesces the app, flushes data from buffers and caches it to storage, and makes a Snapshot copy before it resumes data processing, all within milliseconds to provide a consistent recovery point for every application.

Crash-Consistent Snapshot Copies

SnapCenter can also schedule near-zero impact, crash-consistent Snapshot copies to provide the shortest possible recovery point objectives. Recovery times might be longer with this approach, so most customers implement a combination of crash-consistent and application-consistent Snapshot copies, depending on their recovery point objectives.

Seamless Scalability

SnapCenter provides seamless scalability to support thousands of applications and databases. SnapCenter plug-ins for VMware virtual machines, Windows File System, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, and SAP HANA talk to all NetApp storage that is running ONTAP software. Plug-ins can also be created for custom applications.

Centralized Management Console

All plug-ins are controlled from a single management console that delivers a consistent user experience across all applications or databases. The SnapCenter management console uses an intuitive GUI with visual representations of data copies across hybrid cloud resources. You get job monitoring, event notification, logging, dashboard reporting, scheduling, and policy management for all application or database plug-ins.

Shrink Backup Windows and Enable Rapid Recovery

Netapp Backup And Recovery Solutions features

Reduce Risk of Data Loss

Reduce the risk of data loss and back up your data more frequently without affecting application performance.

Rapid Operational Recovery

Leverage application-consistent Snapshot™ copies to enable rapid operational recovery, disaster recovery, or dev/test.

Fast Snapshot Copy Creation

NetApp Snapshot copies are created in a fraction of the time that it takes to run a backup script. SnapMirror efficiently replicates data directly between storage endpoints with no performance impact to either the application or hypervisor host—just a pause in I/O processing—eliminating hours from backup windows.

Frequent Backups Without Impact

By backing up data in seconds or minutes instead of in hours or days, even during business hours, you can protect applications more frequently without affecting production workloads. SnapMirror replication also preserves data efficiencies implemented in the primary storage prior to transmitting changed bocks, reducing the network I/O traffic and data processing on the secondary storage.

Empower IT Specialists

Self-Service with Centralized Oversight

Provide self-service capabilities with centralized oversight by using role-based access control.

Reduced Testing and Development Time

Reduce testing and development time with embedded NetApp® ONTAP® functionality.

Reduce TCO

Reduce overall TCO by up to 60% by putting your secondary site to active business use.

Space-Efficient Data Copies

Use space-efficient data copies on secondary or tertiary storage for business intelligence or for development and testing without affecting your production system.

Role-Based Access Control

SnapCenter uses RBAC to delegate functionality to application and database owners while retaining oversight and control by a central IT operations administrator. This level of control and security frees storage administrators from tedious tasks that application and database owners can do for themselves.

Plug-in Restore Capabilities

Administrators can use the SnapCenter plug-ins for applications such as SAP and Oracle Database to enable various restore capabilities. Plug-ins can roll forward logs and enable application or database administrators to clone or to recover to the latest information that is available or to a specific point in time.

FlexClone Technology

With NetApp FlexClone technology, you can create near-instantaneous, space-efficient copies of data on your primary, secondary, or tertiary storage. Data is stored natively, enabling you to use these copies for multiple business functions.

IT Operations Administrator Capabilities

Centralized Monitoring

Makes sure that backup jobs are being successfully executed from a single interface with centralized monitoring and reporting

Offload Tasks with RBAC

Offloads restore and clone management tasks to application administrators with role-based access control (RBAC)

Nondisruptive DR Testing

Nondisruptively tests DR failover without disrupting production replication

Application and Database Administrator Capabilities

Define Protection Policies

Define protection policies for workloads deployed on physical or virtual environments using RBAC

Restore Applications/Databases

Restore applications/databases for operational or disaster recovery using RBAC

Instant Clones for Dev/Test

Create instant and space efficient clones of databases for development and testing using RBAC

Virtualization Administrator Capabilities

Simplified VM Backup and Recovery

Simplify backup and recovery of virtual machines and datastores from vCenter by using the SnapCenter Plug-In for VMware vSphere

Frequent Snapshot Copies at Scale

Take frequent Snapshot copies of virtual machines at scale, without affecting their performance, by leveraging SnapCenter

VM Restore Flexibility

Restore virtual machines from primary or secondary storage

Policy-Based VM Management

Manage backups of virtual machines in large deployments by leveraging policy-based management provided by SnapCenter

Centralized VM Monitoring

Monitor virtual machine backups with a centralized dashboard and job monitoring and reporting with the SnapCenter GUI

Application Owner and Developer Capabilities

Faster Application Development

Shrink application development time by up to 50% by using NetApp FlexClone technology on primary or secondary storage

Self-Provisioned Sandboxes

Create self-provisioned sandboxes by using Snapshot copies and rapid restores on datasets

Isolated Developer Environments

Modify or update developer environments without affecting the production environment

Reduced Error Risk

Reduce risk of error with cloning and testing
Expert Guidance

Thrive with expert-led storage guidance

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Technical Specifications

Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.

  • Enterprise Databases
    Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, SAP HANA, and more
  • Virtual Environments
    VMware virtual environments
  • File Systems
    Windows File System
  • Custom Applications
    Plug-ins can be created for custom applications

  • Backup Management Software
    NetApp SnapCenter® backup management software
  • Data Management Software
    NetApp ONTAP data management software
  • Replication Technology
    NetApp Snapshot and SnapMirror® replication technologies
  • Cloning Technology
    NetApp FlexClone technology
  • Compliance
    NetApp SnapLock® software for write once, read many (WORM)

  • VMware
    SnapCenter Plug-In for VMware vSphere
  • Windows
    SnapCenter Plug-In for Windows File System
  • Microsoft SQL Server
    SnapCenter Plug-In for Microsoft SQL Server
  • Oracle Database
    SnapCenter Plug-In for Oracle Database
  • SAP HANA
    SnapCenter Plug-In for SAP HANA

  • Console
    Single management console with intuitive GUI
  • Features
    Job monitoring, event notification, logging, dashboard reporting, scheduling, and policy management
  • API Integration
    Enhanced REST APIs for integration of third-party orchestration and cloud management software
  • Access Control
    Role-based access control (RBAC)

  • TCO Reduction
    Reduce overall TCO by up to 60%
  • Application Development Time
    Shrink application development time by up to 50%
  • Snapshot Creation Time
    Within milliseconds for application-consistent Snapshot copies
  • Backup Frequency
    Backing up data in seconds or minutes instead of in hours or days

  • Data Distribution
    SnapMirror makes it easy to quickly and efficiently move data at the turn of a lease or when you switch storage, consolidate remote offices, or set up new locations.
  • Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
    With SnapMirror and FlexClone technology, you can leverage replicated data to run complex analyses on secondary data copies.
  • Development and Testing
    You can accelerate application development by quickly cloning as many data copies as you need for on-demand development and testing.
  • Data Retention and Compliance
    SnapMirror supports NetApp SnapLock® software for write once, read many (WORM)

Compare NetApp Backup and Recovery Solutions Series

Select the right scale for your workload demands.

Model Name Max Capacity Port Config Action
SnapCenter Server Supports thousands of application instances N/A Get Quote
SnapCenter Plug-In for VMware vSphere Large VM deployments N/A Get Quote
SnapCenter Plug-In for Microsoft SQL Server Application-consistent backups N/A Get Quote
SnapCenter Plug-In for Oracle Database Application-consistent backups N/A Get Quote
SnapCenter Plug-In for SAP HANA Application-consistent backups N/A Get Quote

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