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EFSS on top of ONTAP CIFS

imadam — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:07:39 GMT

Hi,

what would be best choice for EFSS for adding on tope of ONTAP CIFS file shares which are AD integrated?

Thanks.

Re: EFSS on top of ONTAP CIFS

paul_stejskal — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:56:21 GMT

Assuming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_file_synchronization_and_sharing, our two products that copy files are XCP and CloudSync. CloudSync supports mirroring. XCP is a bit more like Robocopy but it does have analytics for differences.

Another thought is if you have two sites, you could use something like GFC (Global File Cache) to improve WAN performance. It is available at https://cloud.netapp.com/global-file-cache.

Re: EFSS on top of ONTAP CIFS

imadam — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:23:47 GMT

Hi @paul_stejskal ,

we are looking for solution like ShareFile where we can integrate remote notebook in to system. Why not ShareFile? It is Citrix and we don't know where Citrix will to in future. Second issue is price.

Re: EFSS on top of ONTAP CIFS

paul_stejskal — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:55:49 GMT

Ok. I'm not clear on the use case here. Can you please explain moreso?

Re: EFSS on top of ONTAP CIFS

imadam — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:59:15 GMT

in nutshell, this is it: https://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/products-solutions/citrix-sharefile-storagesones-on-netapp-solution-guide.pdf

however, I am looking for something which is not ShareFile 🙂