Hello,
 
You mention you believe it was GA at one point, and I don't believe that is correct.
It used to be the case, but at some point, they determined that if the base release was GD, then subsiqent released are auto-majically placed into GD status.
 
This has caused us problems and I hope others chime in to see if NetApp will go back to the old release cycle of every version being GA before going to GD.
 
Stephen Darragh
BAE Systems IT
Merrimack NH
 
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Sheen
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:04 PM
To: Jack Lyons; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Data OnTap 7.2.6

We upgraded a pair of clustered 3070's and a 3020 last Saturday.  We do a small amount of CIFS, more NFS and lots of LUNs.  We haven't had any issues.  All of the hosts connected to the clustered 3070's are multipathed except for one.

good luck with the issues, Kevin

At 07:17 PM 10/30/2008, Jack Lyons wrote:
Does NetApp still publish the number of appliances running different version of Data OnTap?

We just upgraded to 7.2.6 on Sunday and we have had two (and possibly a third) panics causing failover on 1 of the 4 filers.  Failover went smoothly for the most part (I bet the app team that didn't want to spend the money multipathing software / hba's will be singing another tune tomorrow) but both panics didn't create complete core dumps.  We are working on the case with NetApp support but want to see what other people were seeing about 7.2.6.

7.2.6 went GD recently and I assume it was GA for awhile before that, but I can't figure release dates or the number of appliances running the different versions of Data OnTap.

Thanks
Jack

p.s. why did we upgrade?
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=281669 is the bug we are hitting...in addition to:
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=253517
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=256975
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=271864