"Darren" == Darren Sykes Darren.Sykes@csr.com writes:
We've done that, but when a single project out grows a volume, then we start needing to shuffle data... it's a pain.
If I could have more volumes, then I'd use them over qtrees, but then when an Aggr fills, I need to move volumes. It's a pain.
That's why I like the idea of the Acopia product. I wish NetApp would realize that and come out with their own storage virtualization product to put in front of backend NetApps. Would be really nice.
Course I'm a mostly NFS only shop.
Darren> Aren't you basically describing ONTAP GX (on the fly volume Darren> moves, 1000 volumes per pair of filers, up to 24 filers using Darren> a single namespace which can be used to stitch volumes Darren> together etc)?
But GX doesn't support SnapVault at all, and we need (maybe?) it for our DR work across our WAN. Maybe if we consolidated down to just a couple of sites and mirrored them across the country GX would work. I doubt it though.
John