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NetApp Disaster Recovery

Simple, low-cost disaster protection for VMware workloads, from on-premises to on-premises, or on-premises to the AWS, Azure, or Google clouds.

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NetApp Disaster Recovery

The evolution of true hybrid cloud solutions now enables a level of protection that better meets the needs of today's enterprises.

Advancements such as common operating technology across both cloud and on-premises environments, unified approaches to data, and intelligent automation combine to reduce your risk and to speed recovery. In addition, a well-designed cloud-based approach to disaster recovery can slash your cost of being protected, while reducing your testing and implementation windows from weeks to hours...

or even to minutes. NetApp Disaster Recovery is integrated into the innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS)–based NetApp Control plane.

Disaster Recovery uses proven NetApp SnapMirror technology to significantly lower both costs and complexity. You don't have to acquire and deploy expensive alternative infrastructure. And recovery of your applications is simplified with orchestration and nondisruptive virtual failover testing to demonstrate failover success.

NetApp Disaster Recovery overview

Features and Benefits

The capabilities that set NetApp Disaster Recovery apart.

The challenge

Disaster recovery imperative

Enterprises like yours recognize that with today's global challenges, having a proven, reliable disaster recovery plan is critical for business viability. The ability to easily and rapidly recover from any form of disaster is an absolute imperative. Yet, disaster recovery solutions remain complex and costly. Even organizations that have implemented disaster recovery solutions find that recovery is often difficult, time-consuming, and inadequate—resulting in significant downtime and requiring specialized skills.

Why Disaster Recovery

SnapMirror technology

Disaster Recovery relies on SnapMirror technology, which significantly minimizes the amount of data that needs to pass between your systems, slashing both your costs and your system overhead. SnapMirror also provides instant data transfers and application-consistent recovery which means you can easily meet your required recovery time windows.

Simplified process

By using the intuitive UI, simplified deployment, and easy-to-implement templates, Disaster Recovery makes the whole process easy. Continuous health checks and frequent, nondisruptive failover drills further simplify and enhance your disaster recovery readiness.

With Disaster Recovery, you can:

  • Create a templatized disaster recovery plan for vSphere apps that are using NFS and VMFS datastores in NetApp ONTAP powered systems.
  • Replicate vSphere apps and data to a VMware disaster recovery site in AWS by using proven SnapMirror technology.
  • Non-disruptively test the failover process without affecting your production workloads.
  • Easily fail over to a VMware Cloud target in AWS if disaster strikes.
  • Monitor active disaster recovery operations.
  • Fail back after recovery to the (restored) primary site for normal operations.

Key Benefits

Key Benefits

Performance

It's fast because it uses NetApp SnapMirror technology, which includes deduplication, compression, and compaction, along with block-level operation, greatly minimizing the amount of data that needs to pass between systems. This technology slashes both costs and system overhead.

Reliability

SnapMirror is proven in thousands of customer organizations, with instant data transfers and application-consistent recovery. Customers get the tightest recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) in the industry.

Simplicity

Disaster Recovery is delivered as a SaaS with a unified control plane that features easy to implement templates. Frequent, nondisruptive disaster recovery drills simplify readiness and increase confidence.

Lower risk

Identical VMware environment at recovery target means less disruption when disaster strikes. Same runbooks, same processes.

Lower costs

Support for a cloud-based DR target avoids the need to fully provision dedicated alternative infrastructure at a secondary location which substantially lowers costs.

Reduced cost and complexity

Lower-cost disaster recovery

Your organization avoids the cost of maintaining alternative infrastructure in a secondary location.

Simplicity with high confidence

You can simplify your disaster recovery plan and increase confidence with Disaster Recovery, which:
  • Uses the NetApp Console for simplified deployment, replication, and administration across on-premises and cloud environments
  • Simplifies disaster recovery workflows from on-premises ONTAP datastores to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP through the creation of easy-to-follow disaster recovery templates for guided failover and failback operations
  • Reduces risk through continuous compliance health checks
  • Provides granular, multiple point-in-time recovery points for complete restoration flexibility

Where NetApp adds value

The only VMware solution for FSx for ONTAP

The innovative Disaster Recovery service offers:
  • Cloud-based replication separate from primary data with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
  • Orchestrated, on-demand failover and failback by using SnapMirror for NFS and VMFS (on-premises) datastores
  • Low, predictable recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) with almost instantaneous application-consistent recovery from disasters
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Technical Specifications

Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.

  • Delivery Model
    Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
  • Control Plane
    NetApp Control plane / NetApp Console
  • Underlying Technology
    NetApp SnapMirror

  • Data Reduction
    Deduplication, compression, and compaction
  • Replication Method
    Block-level operation
  • Data Transfer
    Instant data transfers
  • Recovery Type
    Application-consistent recovery

  • Source Environment
    On-premises NetApp ONTAP powered systems
  • Supported Datastores
    NFS and VMFS datastores
  • Supported Workloads
    VMware vSphere apps
  • Cloud Targets
    AWS, Azure, or Google clouds
  • AWS Target
    VMware Cloud target in AWS / Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

  • Failover Testing
    Non-disruptive test of failover process without affecting production workloads
  • Failover
    Orchestrated, on-demand failover to VMware Cloud target in AWS
  • Failback
    Fail back after recovery to the (restored) primary site for normal operations
  • Monitoring
    Monitor active disaster recovery operations
  • Health Checks
    Continuous compliance health checks
  • Recovery Points
    Granular, multiple point-in-time recovery points
  • Templates
    Easy-to-implement templates for guided failover and failback operations

  • Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
    Low, predictable RTOs with almost instantaneous application-consistent recovery
  • Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
    Low, predictable RPOs - tightest in the industry
  • Implementation Window
    Reduced from weeks to hours... or even to minutes

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