NetApp SnapMirror Data Replication Reviews & Product Details

What I would say is the most helpful about SnapMirror Data Replication is the speed and we are able to replicate and restore, we are also using data replication for redundancy and cross site data protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At this point I am not entirely sure I can come up with any dislikes, we are using SnapMirror Data Replication and SnapVault also and combined they provide a great solution. But saying that with SnapMirror you don’t have automatic fail-over of any sort. You need to break SnapMirror relationship and present data to clients manually. Then synchronise volumes when problem is fixed. This is something that we manually do regularly to insure the fail-over process works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to manager, configure and less issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the options like creating snapshot within the snapmirror like for example present in synciq. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can recreate Snapmirror is case the site is down due to any disaster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a couple of timeouts for CIFS sessions and NFS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data replication happens at high speed with reducing the 50% network bandwidth by allowing native network compression method. Most important is that no external replication server required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Snap mirror replication is based on snapshot based technology so it works flawless but it lacks the stats and analytics of the data information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Configuration, reliability, data backup and retrieval Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost in implementing

Delay in the support provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Snap mirror is useful for to replicate the data to DR site. I like most is the speed of data transfer and also to setup the replication is so easy. Within few mins we can setup the replication and start the data transfer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dont see any dislike of using snapmirror. One thing couldve automate is to include the share level permissions incase if we activate the DR volume no need to setup the permissions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the way we cofigure and the speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the manual process. It should have an automated process like provisioning ne data volume for replication and cutover as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Snapmirror is a tool which replicate application data from source storage to destination storage. So if by any chance, application and source storage goes down still we can recover our data using destination storage. In short, it is a ZRPO solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it is ZRPO solution but it is not ZRTO solution which is also a important factor for running application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SnapMirror is a very good product. It is very easy to implement, schedule and track. It's almost a set it and forget it application. Works great for data migrations and ensuring your data is safe and replicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I don't like about it. Its easily configured and very reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Below are the pros of using data replication:

• high availability of data

• Data protection

• Data security

• optimization of storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cons are :

• Data replication can be storage consuming.

• Need to take timely backups

• longevity and street testing is tough with real data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.