Hey Ian -

I'll need your help on differentiating the two: the VNX and VNXe are within the same family, but they do not have all the same functionality.

If you can outline more of the ask I can involve the right engineers in getting you a direct answer.

Cheers,
Matt

The Best thing that I can suggest as of now it to use the VNXe for the backup purpose.

You can replicate the VNX file system to VNXe and then you can connect the VNXe to NDMP and then backup.

This will help VNX to take only the load of Replication rather than Replication and NDMP.

And more over you can use the NDMP backup even when the FS is failed over.

Matt,

This would be VNXe at both sites.

Thanks for your help.

Ian

Rohan,

So I think you are saying that you can use NDMP to backup the file system at the target without failing over?

I presume you have to take a VNXe snapshot at target using Replication Manager and back that up or can you backup the target file system directly?

Ian

Thanks for your answers, I will try this out on the next VNXe install.