I strongly recommend NOT using ASIS until you're at least at 7.2.6.1/7.3.1 Before 7.2.6.1 or 7.3.1 you'll run into a problem doing sequential reads of large empty files (LUNs or VMDK files for instance). It's an ugly situation, my snapvault initial transfers for 1 TB volumes where taking a week+ to run when the 5 TB volume (not deduped) went overnight.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Darren Sykes Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:28 PM To: Nick Silkey; steve klise Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: vmware ESX and volumes/aggrs
I thought the current minimum supported release if 7.2.5.1?
There's also the PITA NDMP backup issues on fat VMDKs which wasn't fixed until 7.2.6.1.
Darren
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Nick Silkey Sent: 06 March 2009 15:36 To: steve klise Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: vmware ESX and volumes/aggrs
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steve klise wrote:
The primary storage is still on 7.2.4, so no dedupe, or thin
provisioning
until we upgrade to 7.3.2 sometime this year. This is coming btw to a
store
near you...
If youre on a 3xxx/6xxx FAS-series and running DOT >= 7.2.4, you can take advantage of the special sauce. You will have to obtain one of those no-cost NearStore licenses (made available as a free offering on 3/10/08) to get dedupe enabled. We went through a zero-dollar purchase order route as an edu a year ago. Dont know if this process has changed or not since; reach out to your NetApp contacts to touch base on this.
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