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Advert agency slashes NetApp charges with Datadobi recordsdata migration

Dave March 27, 2022

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US-based mostly branding agency wanted emigrate 20TB of colossal recordsdata to still NetApp hardware, however unwilling to abdominal the dealer’s migration charges it selected Datadobi as an alternative

Antony Adshead

Antony Adshead,
Storage Editor

Printed: 24 Mar 2022 9: 00

Unique York-based mostly branding and possess agency CBX has migrated 20TB (terabytes) of recordsdata from cease-of-lifestyles NetApp storage to still hardware from the the same dealer utilizing Datadobi migration instruments.

The migration accounted for about half of the full storage upgrade rate, however Datadobi rate noteworthy decrease than the “six figures” asked for by NetApp.

CBX has labored with producers that consist of BP, Bayer, Disney, P&G, Lidl, Walmart and Starbucks. It has 70 workers during two places in Unique York and Minneapolis, and most of its IT requirements centre on colossal graphics, image and video recordsdata utilizing the Adobe suite, including Photoshop and Illustrator.

By 2020, it had reached cease-of-lifestyles with its existing seven-mode OnTap working system NetApp hardware, so no extra firmware, patches or upgrades could be available and guarantee support changed into attributable to strategy abet to an cease.

CBX made up our minds to follow NetApp storage, however that meant the upgrade would settle on to be to the most as a lot as date model of OnTap, requiring the migration of around 20TB with out a disruption to the industry.

At every residence, 30TB of raw NetApp storage on SAS spinning disk-geared up FAS 2720 filers working the most as a lot as date OnTap working system changed into deployed.

CBX IT manager Don Piraino talked about his main scenario changed into that the ideas could be tantalizing from one working system to one more, albeit each and every being variations of NetApp’s OnTap and each and every accessed by technique of SMB/NFS.

“There don’t seem to be any VMs [virtual machines] and no SAN [storage area network], so it changed into fairly vanilla,” talked about Piraino. “However OnTap changed into entirely still for me so there changed into a particular level of scenario. We wished to be completely particular about recordsdata integrity and receive recordsdata available and online for the length of the full project.”

In the origin, Piraino’s team looked to NetApp to attain the migration, however the storage dealer wished to payment “six figures” for that, so CBX looked in utterly different places and at final selected Datadobi’s DobiMigrate, which came in at “one-third” the price of the NetApp quote.

The DobiMigrate licence rate changed into in conserving with the skill moved and the strategy changed into straightforward, talked about Piraino.

“You set up it, walk it and the core engine manages the full project. Proxy servers are set aside aside in that effect the heavy lifting,” he talked about. “They title the ideas volumes and also you space offer and target places. You seemingly could also also throttle recordsdata circulation to compose most attention-grabbing use of still times on the community.”

First, recordsdata changed into moved to the still storage in Minneapolis, then Unique York. NetApp’s SnapMirror replication changed into then space up between them and the cutover to the still methods occurred. Your whole project took two months.

Piraino talked about he hadn’t labored out benefits in terms of numbers, however the Datadobi solution had rate loads decrease than the provider NetApp had equipped. Despite that, the price of migration had strategy in at half of the full rate of the storage upgrade.

The price of Datadobi also integrated support and a member of workers assigned to the project, which changed into a key profit for Piraino.

“I felt if fact be told strongly that the help obtained and to rep that bit of further support to make certain the entirety went ethical changed into precious,” he talked about. “Right here’s a one-shot thing every seven years, and having somebody there making particular things glide ethical is price loads for now not noteworthy further rate.”