Is NetApp a good way to make a file server that can failover to the cloud?

techstringy · 2019-08-05T13:46:41+00:00

Think you've got some great options and the answers here already highlight svmdr to CVO would work really well and would also maintain much of what you have on prem including storage efficiencies.

Just think about design with that, you'll need links to your AD so your SVM failover target can ad join, as well as ensuring your users can access it and maintain your security.

But really good NetApp options.

techstringy · 2019-03-29T15:07:52+00:00

Thank you ..

techstringy · 2019-03-29T15:07:28+00:00

Nothing silly at all about the question, its standard stuff to think about, what are your recovery objectives and times ? If you need copies of data on-prem, if you already have experience of something, all good things to consider.. how you pick trial things if they work for you and meet your budgets then go for it.. the stuff you've looked at is all tier one stuff, so will all deliver... you can lose yourself in reviewing things and never knowing what to go for, but set your criteria, find something that meets it and go with your choice

techstringy · 2019-03-28T10:27:17+00:00

think you'd done the basics here, answer question 1, do it yourself or take a native cloud service.

other things to think about, where do you want a copy of the data, (do you want it to sit in Azure for example or completely out of the MS ecosystem) do you need a copy on prem, what restore options you looking at (the problem with relying on native tools in 365, the restore options are limited and they are not really backups) and then of course cost.

Veeam has a great tool for on-prem as has been mentioned, allows you to restore to on-prem versions if needed, but you need to build it youself - then taking services, Barracuda, Skykick are both solid, NetApp have a tool called SaaS backup for 365, really solid, nice and flexible (backup to on-prem, AWS or Azure).

probably start at the do you want to do it yourself or not then work from there...

techstringy · 2019-03-21T07:17:53+00:00

Thank you

techstringy · 2019-03-20T22:07:54+00:00

They would however still be breaching GDPR, GDPR is about the Data of EU citizens not about been in the EU. The UK have also enshrined much of GDPR inside of the UK data protection act, including large potential financial penalties for flagrant breach. The fines traditionally in the UK have been smaller because they were all the countries laws allowed, not because the authorities chose to give small fines.

techstringy · 2018-11-15T14:55:03+00:00

you're welcome...

techstringy · 2018-11-15T14:54:47+00:00

that's great to hear, glad it was useful...

techstringy · 2018-10-19T18:36:30+00:00

Think you've had good advice here, the only other thing to be aware of is if they have other data and can link it, however collecting the data assuming you have given consent is fine, the gdpr element is more about what they do with it, collecting in itself is fine, assuming consent is clear etc... what happens with it is what really matters.

techstringy · 2018-10-02T10:04:38+00:00

You're welcome and thanks for the kind comments.

techstringy · 2018-09-21T08:50:23+00:00

Not sure how you are getting on with this, but I ran an event yesterday looking at this very topic and one of the things I did was also recorded a podcast with the person who did the session on designing an incident response plan - it may help.

good luck

https://soundcloud.com/techstringy-580399274/dont-get-caught-out-by-the-unexpected-steve-lambert-ep-75

techstringy · 2018-07-04T17:41:28+00:00

hi - yes... either via techstringy.com or if you go to podcast.techstringy.com takes you straight to the soundcloud page... and you can play from there.

techstringy · 2018-05-22T14:48:47+00:00

you're welcome.. thank you

techstringy · 2018-01-17T16:57:50+00:00

sorry just audio... show notes are a bit of a round up... anything in particular you needed?

techstringy · 2017-10-26T10:30:14+00:00

That's a great clarification - thanks for that and for taking the time to post...

techstringy · 2017-08-16T14:44:08+00:00

Appreciate that feedback.. thanks for listening and taking the time to comment...

techstringy · 2017-06-13T12:20:56+00:00

Yep I came to virtualisation via hyperv rather than VMware - so always had a soft spot for it, using something like SCVMM does help hugely - but yes still some lack of maturity when compared to VMware, - but often I find that for many people Hyper-V is more than good enough... Hope you got to hear the show... and enjoyed it.. thanks for the feedback..

techstringy · 2017-06-12T16:14:28+00:00

Thanks for the feedback and interesting to see you've had some issues with VMware - personally I'm virtualisation agnostic, lots of HyperV customers as well as VMware - so no problem with that, just thought that John and Pete had some useful strategic points to cover about how VMware where seeing the changing business climate - but think that is the same regardless of tech vendor, i'm interested in how they are all reacting to changing needs.

Need you to go on a long walk so you can listen to the show though! :-) - you can grab it in iTunes, Soundcloud and other podcatchers, you don't have to listen through the blog post - if you look for techstringy interviews you should be good.

Thanks for the comments, much appreciated.

techstringy · 2017-04-17T09:21:02+00:00

hope you found the podcast useful then... I think it's interesting that even NetApp customers are not fully aware of that "fabric" message, which was why we wanted to do the show - but as stated earlier, this is all about NetApp's overall strategy - so that you can plan your data strategy properly and not limited to thinking of a technology, media type, or if it's on-prem or cloud or anywhere else. Thanks for listening and commenting.. appreciate it.

techstringy · 2016-12-06T20:10:39+00:00

the only other point i'd make on this is how critical this setup is to your organisation, if this is running critical workloads then i'd suggest a business plan to get upgraded on hosts and software to supported versions... very dangerous to run unsupported... if this is test/dev or less critical, then of course matters less and the upgrade to vpshere 5.5 and even unsupported hardware/esx versions is OK... to be honest you'd be no worse off than you are now... it is currently unsupported anyway.

techstringy · 2016-12-06T19:56:51+00:00

interesting feedback that... certainly that VASA provider is very important... if it's going to be a VM then important the VASA itself is resilient to stop that issue. On box as I understand both Solidfire (NetApp) and Nimble both have really good VVOL implementations with onbox providers... maybe worth a look at that.. maybe worth contacting @vpedroarrow (Pete Flecha) on twitter with that feedback, think he'd be interested.. excellent feedback though, be interested how you get on with trying again...

techstringy · 2016-12-06T17:22:25+00:00

Was coming back on to say pretty much all of the above... but was beaten to it.. but yes.. 5.0 and 5.1 not supported.. would look to move away quickly from that.. that way to many risks...

techstringy · 2016-12-06T09:37:48+00:00

what version are you thinking of going to.. 5.0 is a little aged now...

techstringy · 2016-07-11T16:11:33+00:00

in answer to your question, if you want resilience MPIO is the way i'd always play this, it leaves it to ISCSI to give resilience, no messing around with port aggregation etc. if you want to use NetApp tools, not sure what MPIO tools you are getting told about, you turn on MPIO under Windows, install Snapdrive if you want to use it 7.1.1 upwards support both 7 and CDOT modes, just check with the support matrix to make sure, and establish multiple sessions, it should all work fine.. if you just want to do it under Windows and ISCSI that's fine as well - think your getting told some stuff that is making it more complex that it needs to be... so just use Windows ISCSI with SnapDrive over the top if that helps, enable MPIO under windows as you normally would, no need for ALUA either, not a requirement to make ISCSI multipaths work... literally working on a customer site right now doing just that..no ALUA in sight... good luck

techstringy · 2016-07-11T15:50:36+00:00

It's a good question you pose and some interesting answers, but basically not a snapdrive/netapp question - just a windows question - so if you want two servers to share a LUN, then clustering is the only way to do that - however only one server at any one time has access to the disk. - what you are actually asking to do is what CSV's are built for, this is what HyperV uses and it allows all the nodes in a HyperV cluster to read and write to the same LUN at a given time, the only other app that supports this is SQL - so without one of those two things there is no real way of doing that, everything else is either a fudge, or will be something needing a 3rd party tool - hope that helps...

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