We were talking about this off-the-cuff and believe you'd have to push the NetApp flash firmware to the controller to make it NetApp DOT friendly.  I have heard reports of trying to load DOT on N-series and it won't boot... apparently IBM has modified (booby-trapped?) the firmware to refuse to accept generic NetApp DOT.

This is all speculation, so YMMV!  But I'd be interested to know how your science project works out ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Blake Golliher
Sent: Tue 12/8/2009 12:56 AM
To: ifstat
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Covert IBM N Series to NetApp Solution

Pardon me, but what's the point of doing that?

-Blake

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:58 PM, ifstat <hockey@spidernet.net> wrote:
>
> Ok, I'm sure this has been covered somewhere during the years, and I'm well
> aware that this is taboo in terms of the NetApp IBM partnership, but I would
> like to attempt or rather investigate the following:
>
> 1. Reconfigure an IBM N3700 to FAS270, initializing the disks and deploying
> NetApp Data ONTAP, does anyone know if the underlying hardware (firmware)
> will accept this.
>
> 2. Add NetApp disks and shelves to the system, ie grow with NetApp directly
> and not neccessarily IBM.
>
> Anyone attempted this your info would be helpful.
>
> We are not concerned about the support agreements, financially NetApp is
> cheaper and easier, so in this day and age it all about the MONEY:).
>
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