How Doomed is NetApp?

Re:How Doomed is NetApp? by Ecio78 on Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:16AM (#9402202)

NetApp do not add any value since Exchange do not need or actually utilise any of the features.

I never used Exchange on Netapp, but aren't they supposed to have a "SnapManager for.." tool to coordinate the Exchange backups with the storage snapshot process? I was using it for SQL Server.

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Re:How Doomed is NetApp? by drieddust on Sunday April 19, 2015 @04:37AM (#9402425)

Yes they do have snap manager but backups mostly keep failing. With exchange 2010 you have database, mailbox, and item level redundancy and protection so I don't actually see the value. S

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Re:How Doomed is NetApp? by Ecio78 on Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:11PM (#9404117)

HA != backup

you can have whatever redundancy you want, and maybe even lagged copies, but if you need to restore something months older, you still need backups..

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Re:How Doomed is NetApp? by drieddust on Monday April 20, 2015 @04:27PM (#9410672)

Agreed

Exchange does not needs NetApp HA capabilities if you use multiple copies of database.

In our case NetApp sold snap manager for 30 remote copies of already triple redundant (one remote copy) database and then tape backup at month end.

In my view they just fooled the unsuspecting customer and just oversold everything.

That was fine too if it would have worked.

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