Not exactly true. 7-mode in ONTAP 8 does have larger than 16T aggregates, although it is for new aggregates. How large depends on your model, but it can be as high as 100T out of the gate with future increases to come in future releases.
-- Adam Fox Systems Engineer adamfox@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Bert Kiers [mailto:kiersb@xs4all.net] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:09 PM To: lists@up-south.com Cc: Toasters Subject: Re: max aggr size of 16TB
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 08:52:48PM +0000, lists@up-south.com wrote:
Aside from goin up in ontap version to 8 (currently at 726 and going to 733) and upgrading hardware (currently a 3070) is the 16tb aggr size a hard limit ?
It is my understandign that 8 has two modes: 8-in-7 mode, which still has the annoying 16 TB limit, and 'native' 8-mode which does not have that limit. Also, keep in mind that to move to >16 TB aggr, you have to recreate aggr and reinitialize snapmirror, which is really not funny to do.
Do you think 8 is ready for production use? (I mean that as a neutral question)
Grtnx,