Well, I am...sort of... I have a loaded memory F330 along with a Sparc 5. I have *all* my data on my F330, and I am running the Netcache software for Solaris using a *private* 100BaseT network with the Filer. Works great! PC's have access to home dir's via CIFS, UN*X machines can access via NFS, and NetCache running over an NFS mount on the F330. (granted I only have a 2 B-Channel ISDN, but it makes the Cache look REAL GOOD!)
Jaye Mathisen wrote:
Well, not to be too critical of somebody's situation, but given that the netapp is already a relatively pricey solution, I would guess that anybody that scraped the bucks to buy one, can swing a few hundred more for 64MB's.
We bought ours from Kingston, works just fine.
Anybody actually running gigabit ethernet on their filer? I'm thinking about it...
Too bad you can't use the filer as both a filer and low end netcache.
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Mike Horwath wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 12:00:51PM -0800, Dave Hitz wrote:
Important: Data ONTAP 5.0 requires 128MB of memory on the filer to run properly. If you do not currently have 128MB of memory, contact our Installed Base Group either by e-mail or by phone at 1-888-2NETAPP.
Ouch. 128MB? Why is that? Will filers be sold with a minimumconfiguration of 128MB in the future?
This is a combinations new features and better testing.
Better testing? Well, we've discovered some rare but real situations where low memory can cause deadlocks or panics. We did change some algorithms, but it also seemed sensible to increase the memory requirement. We checked our manufacturing database, and we believe that of the four-thousand-plus filers in the field, fewer than 100 currently have less than 128 MB of memory.
So now we are being 'forced' to buy another 64MB...if we wanna continue to upgrade.
(yep - we are one of those < 100 people with a small filer and 64MB)
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