On 6 Nov 1998 15:00:16 -0800, Brian Atkins brian@posthuman.com wrote:
hope you all can help us out with. (I'll ask Netapp too whenever they return my voice mail..)
Eh, it's friday :-)
Can you add drives to a file without shutting down?
Yes.
How would you add shelves/adapters?
You'd have to shut down for that.
Is the filer OS considered secure? Y2K compliant?
It's not a Unix system with lots of daemons that you don't need and that are just waiting to be exploited, it's a custom designed OS which is as far as I can tell very secure (unless you configure it not to be (hosts.equiv)). The latests 5.x.y releases are supposed to be Y2K compliant.
Would you feel safe running your filer attached to potentially hostile web servers running user-uploaded CGI programs?
Er? I mean the filer just holds data. If you allow some Unix server to mount the filer as root, and the Unix server gets broken into, then your data is vulnerable. The same goes for NT of course, but who'd want to run a web server with CGIs on NT? :-)
Can we use third party drives/shelves/canisters/mem?
You're not supposed to.
Works with these systems over nfs: http(apache), news(inn and dnews), dns(bind), mail(qmail), ftp(NcFTPd), Frontpage ?
As far as I know yes. I haven't tried qmail, but I've seen sendmail work (With locking) on filers.
Does Netapp charge for OS upgrades beyond a certain time period?
You get 3 months of upgrade and then you have to be under software subscription to be eligible for software upgrades. You may also be able to purchase them separatly.
Finally, do you feel there are any serious contenders to Netapp that we should check out?
No :-) but then, like everything else, it depends on your requirements.
Marc