We recently became caretaker of a new to us F630. This unit has 6 disk shelves, each shelf loaded with 9GB drives. We had NetApps come in and set it up (recertify it) after it was shipped to us from GB (we are in Ohio). Everything went fine except we had a couple of bad power supplies and a bad SCSI cable to one of the shelves.
We are now looking at maintaining the hardware ourselves. We are planning on securing some spare parts and build a small hot spare system from which we can pull parts as needed.
Anyone have any suggestions as new owners of a F630? We have lots of Unix and PC experience, but this is the first hands on with a NetApps.
(BTW: why is NetApps so secretive with info on their web site? Docs, manuals, specs, are all highly guarded with logins, passwords, etc.)
Cheers,
Dan O'Brien, dmobrien@lcsi.net Cell: 614-783-4859 Work: 614-476-8473 Home: 740-927-2178 Pataskala, OH