It is not terribly bad, but the filesystems are not compatible at all. ALL data is wiped/disks are zero'd
Plus you need to get license keys from NetApp for cluster mode. Set some environment variables.
Make sure you have proper networking... i.e. 2 x Cisco 5010 switches solely for the cluster backend and 2 x Cisco 2960 switches for the administration network and then whatever networking you want to add on top of that for your data network(s).
Make sure you have multi-path storage properly configured.
You are best off getting the simulator and playing with that for a while to see how it goes. The downside to the simulator is that it now longer supports ha mode (it did way back in 7.x days, but not not so much) so you end up with two single nodes with now sfo/cfo capability.
--tmac Tim McCarthy Principal Consultant
RedHat Certified Engineer 804006984323821 (RHEL4) 805007643429572 (RHEL5)
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Dan Olson dolson@mcs.anl.gov wrote:
Hi all, Is it trivial to switch between cluster mode and 7 mode? I understand that the data on the array will be wiped, but are there other caveats to be aware of? Are there any licensing or cost issues to be aware of?
Does anyone know what additional hardware is included in the FAS 2240 Cluster mode configuration? I understand there is a switch, potentially multiple switches included in cluster mode configurations.
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Daniel Murphy-Olson Systems Administrator Mathematics & Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory 630-252-0055
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