Protect all of the data that you want and meet your RPOs with NetApp SnapMirror or SnapVault and Silver Peak software. Silver Peak fixes the network problems that undermine NetApp replication letting you protect 20-times more data, meet your Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) consistently regardless of network problems or distance, and secure the data in transit.
Protecting critical data is an essential part of business continuity. NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault address the challenge of data protection by replicating data off-site quickly and easily. But as data volumes have grown, so has the amount of data requiring protection. All too often, storage managers cannot replicate some data assets because inefficiencies in the WAN undermine SnapMirror or SnapVault performance. Initial source-target synchronization fail to complete. Incremental replication may take too long, exceeding the RPOs.
Silver Peak software eliminates the network inefficiencies that limit replication throughput. Distance limitations between source and target filers are overcome by accelerating replication traffic and efficiently using all of the available bandwidth. SnapMirror and SnapVault replication traffic is also deduplicated and compressed in real-time. All accelerated traffic can be further protected with real-time AES encryption - without impacting performance. With Silver Peak software, NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault can
- increase replication throughput limited by poor network quality.
- maximize available bandwidth for replication through byte-level deduplication and compression.
- replicate over long distances by overcoming latency.
- secure replicated data with an AES-256, IPSec VPN.
Once deployed, Silver Peak’s storage-specific reporting enables any storage professional to easily manage the Silver Peak implementation. Reports are in storage-friendly terms showing the data replicated (in bytes) and replication performance. Storage traffic is segmented by type, such as replication and / or backup traffic, and metrics are reported over a 10-day interval in part to accommodate traffic increases during weekends. (Read the Silver Peak page on the NetApp website here.)
Featured Products
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VX Virtual WAN Optimization Software
Silver Peak VX WAN optimization software supports the full list of Silver Peak WAN optimization features. Use Silver Peak VX software to build a Silver Peak Unity WAN fabric for integrating your enterprise WAN, the Internet and the cloud, and to optimize every SaaS application.
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NX Appliances for Application Acceleration and Replication Acceleration
Silver Peak NX WAN optimization appliances are the industry's highest-performance WAN optimization solutions, delivering three-times the WAN performance and capacity of the nearest competing products. Silver Peak Software for Life program means you can convert NX appliances to VX software at anytime for free.
Benefits
- Meet Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Replicate more data in less time to remote locations.
- Replicate over longer distances. Eliminate distance limitations between source/target devices.
- Improve business continuity. Maintain redundant data centers for hot failover.
- Lower disaster recovery costs. Eliminate costly dedicated networks for replication; avoid bandwidth upgrades.
Resources
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Data replication performance is severely degraded by the long distances, poor network quality, and limited bandwidth of the WAN. This performance brief provides details on the performance benefits of the Silver Peak and NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault solution.
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Limited bandwidth, congestion, latency, and out-of-order or lost packets are all common challenges associated with replicating data across an IP wide area network (WAN). Any one of these problems can impede replication processes or prevent them from happening entirely. These issues can also increase the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data protection by preventing replication and backup services from taking place on shared WAN infrastructures such as MPLS and IP VPNs.
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Silver Peak + NetApp Partnership podcast
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This document describes the configuration of NetApp 7-mode SnapMirror for use with Silver Peak Velocity Replication Acceleration, VRX. When Silver Peak VRX software is deployed with the NetApp SnapMirror, a static route is used to direct replication traffic to the VRX software for acceleration.
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Deploying Silver Peak and NetApp SnapMirror in under 5 minutes
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The Entertainment Company is a leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services in the United States. When The Entertainment Company wanted to establish a disaster recovery site, it faced a challenge all too familiar to many enterprises: How to replicate large amounts of data across the country and still meet Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs)?
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NCCW is one of the largest application service providers in the Netherlands. The company builds, maintains and hosts applications that enable building societies to efficiently rent and manage a house. NCCW represents more than 10,000 managed properties, and more than half of all building societies within the Netherlands rely on NCCW for their core business process management (BPM), software-as-a-service (SAAS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.
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When Storage Area Network (SAN) replication stalls, some companies might just throw more bandwidth at the problem, but not Priva B.V. The Dutch manufacturer of building management and climate control systems makes a point of conserving natural resources – and WAN bandwidth, apparently. Instead of purchasing more bandwidth to replicate traffic between its Dutch locations, Priva improved NetApp® SnapMirror replication nearly six-fold with Silver Peak WAN acceleration. “Our partner, Storedata, recommended we try Silver Peak,” says Ed de Jong, IT network engineer at Priva, “We found we were able to move nearly ten-times the data over our existing Internet connection, without spending a single Euro more on bandwidth.”
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