A customer wants to lower their TCO using a cloud solution to reduce their expenditure for on- premises third-party storage. Which NetApp solution…

BlueXP tiering is the NetApp solution designed specifically to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by reducing on-premises storage expenditure. It uses NetApp's FabricPool technology to automatically and transparently move inactive ("cold") data from high-performance, on-premises storage systems to low-cost object storage in the public or private cloud. This frees up capacity on the expensive primary storage, delaying or eliminating the need for additional hardware purchases and thus directly lowering capital and operational expenditures associated with the on-premises footprint.

B. BlueXP backup and recovery: This service creates separate copies of data for protection and recovery purposes. It does not reduce the amount of data on the primary on-premises storage system.

C. BlueXP copy and sync: This is a data mobility service for migrating or synchronizing datasets between locations. It is not an automated, policy-based tiering solution for TCO reduction of primary storage.

D. BlueXP replication: This uses SnapMirror technology to create a full, secondary copy of data for disaster recovery. This increases total storage consumption, rather than reducing the primary storage footprint.

1. NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Tier data to the cloud": "Tiering inactive data from your on-premises ONTAP clusters to low-cost object storage can help you reduce your on-premises storage costs. You can free up space on your high-performance, on-premises storage for hot data, which means you can add more workloads and avoid purchasing additional storage." (Refer to the introduction section on the BlueXP tiering overview page).

2. NetApp Technical Report TR-4598, "FabricPool Best Practices": Section 1.1, "What is FabricPool?", states, "FabricPool allows you to tier cold data to a low-cost object store, either in the public cloud or on the premises. This tiering frees up space on the high-performance SSD aggregate, allowing you to store more hot data on that aggregate without having to purchase more SSDs."

3. NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Learn about BlueXP backup and recovery": "BlueXP backup and recovery provides an end-to-end, application-consistent backup and restore solution for your data that is stored on your on-premises ONTAP systems and in the cloud." (This highlights its purpose as a data protection solution, not a storage reduction tool for primary data).

4. NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Replicate data for disaster recovery": "You can use BlueXP replication to replicate data between on-premises ONTAP systems and Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems for disaster recovery." (This confirms its use for DR, which involves data duplication, not tiering).