Debbie:
Your concern regarding the usability of your NetApp disk drives on other systems notwithstanding, your best investment protection on your NetApp system would be to ask your NetApp salesperson for software license transferability before you buy your next machine (NFS, CIFS, Snap products, etc.) Further, in the event you decide to lease a filer, you might want to select a leasing company that has NetApp's permission to freely transfer software licenses on the resale of used NetApp systems -- they should be able to provide you significantly better rates.
Regards,
Scott Fischmann Union Computer Exchange, Inc. 6233 Idylwood Lane Minneapolis, MN 55436 Phone: 952 935 7282 FAX: 952 935 5056 scott@unioncomputer.com
In a message dated 7/3/01 12:49:37 PM Central Daylight Time, Debbie.Lane@intermec.com writes:
Can a 36F Fibre Channel disk be used in a system that is not NetApp? I am asking because the decision to buy or lease was based on the belief that if at some point we wanted to discontinue using NetApp the disks could be used elsewhere.
Thanks for your help.
--Debbie