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NetApp Disaster Recovery

Simple, high-performance disaster protection for VMware and Kubernetes workloads across on-premises ONTAP environments and public clouds, including AWS and Google Cloud.

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Our disaster recovery advantage

With NetApp® Disaster Recovery, you get:

  • High performance data replication with SnapMirror®, delivering recovery point objectives as low as five minutes.
  • Simplified deployment, replication, and administration
  • Failback testing results in more confidence in successful recovery
  • Frequent failover testing, to lower risk of failure in an actual disaster

Simple and low cost

simplicity

Easy-to-implement templates to simplify your VMware and Kubernetes DR plan management.

Low Cost

Support for a cloud-based DR target avoids the need to fully provision dedicated alternative infrastructure at a secondary location which substantially lowers costs.

storage efficiency

Highly efficient block-level, incremental-forever NetApp Snapshot™ copies reduce your storage, networking, and costs. 

Lower risk

Less disruption, faster recovery

  • Recovery into a similar environment reduces operational complexity and helps ensure a smoother recovery experience during a disaster.
  • Built on trusted SnapMirror technology, NetApp delivers proven recovery capabilities relied on by thousands of customers.
  • Simple, failover testing gives teams confidence that recovery plans will work when needed.
Failover testing

High performance

Faster replication and updates:

  • SnapMirror speeds up the replication process with efficient deduplication, compression, and compaction storage.
  • Snapshot copies are incremental forever.
  • Block-level replication updates your DR copy faster because it updates only changed data in 4KB blocks, not entire files. 

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NetApp Disaster Recovery is a disaster recovery as a service solution that orchestrates replication, failover, and failback between source and recovery sites for VMware and Kubernetes workloads. It uses NetApp ONTAP SnapMirror technology to maintain synchronized, application-consistent Snapshot copies that are immediately usable after failover. The outcome is centralized disaster recovery operations with predictable recovery processes across supported on-premises and cloud environments.

NetApp Disaster Recovery supports VMware and Kubernetes workloads in NetApp-to-NetApp recovery configurations. Supported VMware scenarios include on-premises recovery between NFS or VMFS environments and recovery to Google Cloud VMware Engine, or Amazon Elastic VMware Service. Kubernetes scenarios include on-premises recovery using NFS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel and recovery from on-premises environments to AWS using NFS or iSCSI.

NetApp Disaster Recovery provides centralized orchestration, monitoring, and continuous disaster recovery readiness checks. SnapMirror asynchronous replication can support a recovery point objective as low as five minutes. NetApp storage efficiencies reduce the amount of data transferred, which can accelerate replication, failover, and failback while lowering the associated storage and network footprint. The customer outcome is a more repeatable recovery process with lower operational complexity and reduced exposure to untested or inconsistent recovery procedures.

NetApp Disaster Recovery is designed to recover VMware workloads into supported VMware environments and Kubernetes applications into supported Kubernetes environments. This allows IT teams to maintain consistent operational processes, management tools, and skillsets across production and recovery sites. Unlike approaches that require workload conversion or migration to a different runtime environment, recovery occurs within familiar platforms, helping reduce operational disruption during a disaster event. The customer outcome is a more predictable recovery process with less retraining, fewer operational changes during failover, and lower risk associated with recovering business-critical applications.

NetApp Disaster Recovery is licensed according to used capacity on the source volume rather than the number of virtual machines or applications. Customers can purchase bring-your-own-license terms through NetApp or obtain pay-as-you-go and private-offer subscriptions through the AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure marketplaces. The Disaster Recovery charge covers orchestration only and does not include storage or other infrastructure costs. For environments with many virtual machines or Kubernetes applications, capacity-based licensing can make costs more predictable because adding workloads does not create a separate per-VM orchestration charge.

Disaster Recovery as a Service for VMware and Kubernetes environments