We took the leap in a big way and we still can't transition the first system to prod because of essentially bugs in the FC setup- the interop matrix doesn't mesh with that of HP. It's not just semantics, maturity of a platform has a measurable effect on risk.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Peter D. Gray <pdg@uow.edu.au> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 08:34:09PM -0400, Basil wrote:
> In my mind, CDOT has lots of promise on paper, but where it falls flat
> against 7-mode is maturity. The maturity of a platform is hard to quantify,
> but generally more mature platforms will have seen and fixed more bugs.
> CDOT is still ironing some of these out, compared to 7-mode which just
> works.
>

We are just about to go to cluster mode and I cannot wait.
I cannot see any reason to stay on 7-mode other than inertia.

As for maturity, there is some merit on your statement, but I see a much
bigger issue is how much you trust your vendor. The biggest reason
I like netapp is that they take data protection seriously.

"Just works" is why people are still using DOS. If you want new features
you have to move forward with releases. Its unreasonable for any company
to support old code past its use by date. IMHO, 7-mode is past its use by date.

Regards,
pdg

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