topic EoL for Brocade VFM in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/EoL-for-Brocade-VFM/m-p/46512#M10927 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All,</P><P></P><P>I have one query regarding Brocade VFM which are using along with our NetApp filers.</P><P></P><P>We are using VFM for below activities:</P><UL><LI>Creation of Global Name Space for CIFS shares.</LI><LI>Integrating Secondary CIFS shares in the Name Space. </LI><LI>Policy based Archival depending on either the data is access or not modified for certain period of time.</LI><LI>Report generation on data usage for any QTREE or folder.</LI><LI>Migration of data across locations for a share or specific folder.</LI><LI>Policy based replication of a QTREE or folder.</LI><LI>Also, we can manage snapshots and SnapMirror from VFM console which comes handy when we have to do some change on all the boxes.</LI></UL><P></P><P>Want to know if anyone using VFM has migrated to any other tool. If yes, then how seamless is it.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:32:28 GMT amit_choudhury01 2025-06-05T06:32:28Z EoL for Brocade VFM https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/EoL-for-Brocade-VFM/m-p/46512#M10927 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All,</P><P></P><P>I have one query regarding Brocade VFM which are using along with our NetApp filers.</P><P></P><P>We are using VFM for below activities:</P><UL><LI>Creation of Global Name Space for CIFS shares.</LI><LI>Integrating Secondary CIFS shares in the Name Space. </LI><LI>Policy based Archival depending on either the data is access or not modified for certain period of time.</LI><LI>Report generation on data usage for any QTREE or folder.</LI><LI>Migration of data across locations for a share or specific folder.</LI><LI>Policy based replication of a QTREE or folder.</LI><LI>Also, we can manage snapshots and SnapMirror from VFM console which comes handy when we have to do some change on all the boxes.</LI></UL><P></P><P>Want to know if anyone using VFM has migrated to any other tool. If yes, then how seamless is it.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:32:28 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/EoL-for-Brocade-VFM/m-p/46512#M10927 amit_choudhury01 2025-06-05T06:32:28Z Re: EoL for Brocade VFM https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/EoL-for-Brocade-VFM/m-p/46516#M10929 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Did you ever come up w/ a solution?&nbsp; It seems NetApp hasn't answered any of these posts about this product and they haven't replaced it w/ something else?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:07:56 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/EoL-for-Brocade-VFM/m-p/46516#M10929 danekantner 2013-06-26T22:07:56Z