We went through an evaluation that looked at several AFP servers compared to the Mac OS with DAVE and NetApp.
Except for a really high end Sun solution, NetApp with Dave for the Mac was the fast solution and the easiest to use.
Let me know offline if you want to talk some more about this solution
Daniel Brown wrote:
I've read TR 3472 "Integrating Mac® OS and NetApp Storage http://www.netapp.com/library/tr/3472.pdf "
http://www.netapp.com/library/tr/3472.pdf
and am aware of Thursby Software's DAVE: http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html, which is of course
$100/seat, depending on number of seats purchased.
I would like to know if there is any plans to support AFP natively in Ontap?
Has anyone found any other solution to allow for multiplatform (for example PC's and Macs) use of the filer without having to worry about the data fork/resource fork issues? Yes, the macs can talk both CIFS and NFS, the problem is that all files touched by the macs look like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 foo 82 Jun 6 16:55 ._NTAP AAPL3472.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 501 foo 699229 Jun 1 15:45 NTAP AAPL3472.pdf