Re: XDP v DP mirrors

Greetings,

I'd heard rumors of issues in high file count environments -- the
recommendation was not to go there yet. Does anyone have more information
about this?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 2:05 PM Tim McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Xdp is more of a logical copy and dp is physical
>
> Typing errors courtesy of GBoard
>
> Tim McCarthy, Principal Consultant
>
> Proud Member of the NetApp ATeam
>
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> *From:* S. Eno <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 11, 2019 1:46 PM
> *To:* Tim McCarthy
> *Cc:* John Clear; [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: XDP v DP mirrors
>
> Thanks for the feedback!  Aside from universal ONTAP version support, are
> there any other upsides to using XDP?  Depending upon which NetApp rep I
> ask I get differing answers on whether XDP is file-level copy or
> block-level.
>
> But again, thank you for the answers!
>
> On Apr 11, 2019, at 1:32 PM, Tim McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You should notice less performance impact on the source and as little bit
> more on the destination. After the update transfer there are some
> housekeeping steps that post process on the destination which uses
> resources.
>
> Typing errors courtesy of GBoard
>
> Tim McCarthy, Principal Consultant
>
> Proud Member of the NetApp ATeam
>
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> *From:* [email protected] on behalf of John Clear <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 11, 2019 1:19 PM
> *To:* S. Eno
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: XDP v DP mirrors
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 01:56:05PM +0100, S. Eno via Toasters wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone seen benefits to using XDP mirrors? Faster? Slower?
> > Better or worse network compression?
>
> We've converted all our snapmirrors to XDP. It is slighltly slower
> but the benefit of not having to worry about source/destination
> versions is worth it for us since we have a bunch of clusters cross
> mirroring different volumes and with DP we had to upgrade a dozen
> clusters at the same in order to not break snapmirror.
>
> John
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