NetApp NearStore VTL - Enterprise Class, Easy to Use Disk-Based Backup

Lab Validation
Report
NetApp NearStore VTL Enterprise Class, Easy to Use Disk-Based Backup


By Tony Palmer With Claude Bouffard and Brian Garrett December, 2007
Copyright © 2007, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved ESG LAB VALIDATION NetApp NearStore VTL
Table of Contents Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................................i ESG Lab Reports..........................................................................................................................................i Introduction .................................................................................................................................................1 ESG Lab Validation.....................................................................................................................................4 Ease of Implementation and Management...............................................................................................4 Scalability and Performance.....................................................................................................................9 Integration with Physical Tape................................................................................................................11 Reliability and High Availability...............................................................................................................15 ESG Lab Validation Highlights ................................................................................................................18 Issues to Consider....................................................................................................................................18 ESG Lab's View .........................................................................................................................................18 Appendix....................................................................................................................................................19 ESG Lab Reports The goal of ESG Lab reports is to educate customers about various storage and storage-related products, including storage systems, backup-to-disk solutions, storage management applications, backup and recovery software, storage virtualization platforms, etc. ESG Lab reports are not meant to replace the necessary evaluation process that end users should conduct before making purchasing decisions, but rather to provide insight into these technologies. Our objective is to go over some of the highlighted features/functions of such products, show how they can be used to solve real customer problems and identify any areas needing improvement. ESG Lab's expert third-party perspective is based on our own hands-on testing as well as on interviews with customers who use these products in production environments. This ESG Lab report was sponsored by NetApp. All trademark names are property of their respective companies. Information contained in this publication has been obtained by sources The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) considers to be reliable but is not warranted by ESG. This publication may contain opinions of ESG, which are subject to change from time to time. This publication is copyrighted by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. Any reproduction or redistribution of this publication, in whole or in part, whether in hard-copy format, electronically, or otherwise to persons not authorized to receive it, without the express consent of the Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc., is in violation of U.S. Copyright law and will be subject to an action for civil damages and, if applicable, criminal prosecution. Should you have any questions, please contact ESG Client Relations at (508) 482.0188.
- i - Copyright © 2007, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ESG LAB VALIDATION NetApp NearStore VTL
Introduction A VTL (Virtual Tape Library) is a disk-based backup and recovery appliance that emulates the operation of a physical tape library. NearStore® VTL appliances from NetAppT are offered in three models, which provide write compressed performance that ranges from 1.8 TB to over 6 TB per hour. ... [download for more]