Just throwing out an option for those of you looking for a OnTap 6.x to
7.x migration strategy. I am not going to try to do a sales job. Just
offering a solution.
I have been told by a couple NetApp guys that if you upgrade your filers
from 6.x to 7.x, everything currently in place will work, you just won't
get flexvol support, right? Any new volumes you create could be a
flexvol.
RainStorage gives you the ability to perform transparent data moves from
CIFS or NFS source to a new destination, within the same filer or to a
new filer, while clients have full read-write access. We retain all
original date and time stamps, handle all open and locked files and, if
desired, can perform full SID/ACL translation if you want to move data
between Windows authentication or resource domains, such as an NT4 to
Active Directory migration.
We can integrate into your global name space (DFS for CIFS/Automount for
NFS if you have them) so that we can create, update or modify existing
resources. We can also tell you who all the users are accessing the
source and confirm that they have all been migrated over to the
destination. If you don't have a global name space, we can, if given the
ability to do so, interact with your clients and based upon configurable
idle time, force them to unmap/unmount and/or remap/remount to the new
destination, again reporting who is still using the source and who has
migrated to the destination.
We also automate the process of creating the destination qtrees, exports
and shares and perform those preparation steps, including assigning and
activating quotas on the destination as part of the move process.
We can eliminate the downtime and extended maintenance windows
associated with the migration as well as consolidations, capacity,
performance and tiered storage management.
This is a very small part of the functionality delivered by RainStorage.
See the website for more info. Or don't be afraid to ask me directly.
E.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
> [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of jeff.mery@ni.com
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 10:33 AM
> To: John Stoffel
> Cc: owner-toasters@mathworks.com; toasters@mathworks.com
> Subject: Re: OnTap 7.0.1 and Legato Network 7.2
>
> We're using Legato and NDMP to backup our filers. While we
> aren't on 7G yet, we do have a couple of "large, large,
> large" data volumes. To work around the DAR limitation of 1
> MM files, we use the qtree method you propose below. All
> data is stored in qtrees and each qtree is listed
> individually on the client in Legato. It creates a little
> more management overhead in that we have to be sure that all
> new top-level directories are added as qtrees (we've had a
> few sneak in that weren't) and add them to Legato, but it
> works well for us.
>
> We're looking forward to Legato 7.2 to allow us to do
> multiple NDMP streams to a single tape device. Our filers
> backup to an Overland Neo 4100 with 4 x LTO-2 drives and we
> can't push the drives as fast as we'd like to.
>
> Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP
> National Instruments
>
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> "Allow me to extol the virtues of the Net Fairy, and of all
> the fantastic dorks that make the nice packets go from here
> to there. Amen."
> TB - Penny Arcade
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>
>
>
> "John Stoffel"
john.stoffel@taec.toshiba.com Sent by:
> owner-toasters@mathworks.com
> 05/05/2005 03:52 PM
>
> To
> toasters@mathworks.com
> cc
>
> Subject
> OnTap 7.0.1 and Legato Network 7.2
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> We're about o refresh our Netapps and move to OnTap 7.0.1 and
> back them up with Legato Networker 7.2, and hopefully NDMP,
> though we currently do NFS mounts to the (Solaris 5.8, E450)
> backup server.
>
> We'd like to setup one large aggregate, with a small root
> FlexVol and a large large large data FlexVol, with a bunch of
> qtrees inside the flexvol.
>
> So what are others doing to make their backups run quicky,
> and their restores to run reliably? I've got the release
> notes for Networker
> 7.2 and I see the limitation of one (1) million files in DAR
> restores, and since I know our volumes have lots more files
> than that... it could be a problem.
>
> But maybe if we broke down our backups on a per-qtree basis,
> that would work?
>
> What are other people doing for backups? Any gotchas or
> performance tuning hints would be appreciaited.
>
> Thanks,
> John
> John Stoffel - Senior Staff Systems Administrator -
> System LSI Group
> Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. -
>
http://www.toshiba.com/taec
> john.stoffel@taec.toshiba.com - 508-486-1087
>
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