Your employer asks you to develop an off-site data replication strategy that maintains ONTAP data efficiencies for the home directory data; Which two solutions satisfy this requirement?

• A. Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Cloud Volumes Service
• B. Cloud Volumes ONTAP and SANtricity
• C. OnCommand Cloud Manager and Cloud Volumes ONTAP
• D. Elastic IP and Cloud Volumes Service

Answer: (A)

The capability being tested is using NetApp cloud offerings to replicate data off-site while keeping ONTAP’s efficiency features active for the data being copied. Cloud Volumes ONTAP runs ONTAP in the cloud, so when you replicate the home directory data to the cloud, you retain ONTAP data efficiencies such as deduplication, compression, and efficient snapshots. This makes it a solid choice for an off-site DR or replication strategy that preserves those efficiencies.

Pairing that with Cloud Volumes Service gives you a cloud-managed storage destination in NetApp’s portfolio. It provides scalable, enterprise-grade storage in the cloud that can host the replicated data and participate in your DR plan, while still aligning with NetApp’s data-management approach in the cloud.

Other options don’t provide the same combination: SANtricity is tied to on-prem/offline array management, OnCommand Cloud Manager is a management tool, and Elastic IP is simply an IP address—none directly address off-site replication with ONTAP data efficiencies for home directory data.