30 Oct
2014
30 Oct
'14
8:24 p.m.
Mike> It looks like the ontap 8.3 release is out. Does anyone have Mike> any information about the upgrade process from 8.2.2 c-mode? My Mike> NetApp SE informed me that with 8.3 they are doing away with the Mike> required 6 dedicated disks for the cluster storage... i'm Mike> curious if this upgrade path is minimally disruptive.
Interesting, I don't know how they're going to do this when you do failovers between heads, since if you have data on the same aggregate that vol0 of the head is on, when the aggregate fails back, it's going to kill access to those volume(s) until the head boots. Whcih could be a long time.
John