Re: StoreVault 500

Eric,

To answer your question, the S500 is not yet Oracle certified but NetApp is working on this.

Regards,

Tim

On 7/16/06, Eric Grancher Eric.Grancher@cern.ch wrote:

good morning,

Thank you for this information,

do you (or somebody else on the list) know whether the StoreVault product(s) are or will be certified for usage with Oracle database as described in http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/vendors.html ("Network Appliance" is mentioned, not Data ONTAP).

regards, eric

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    From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com

[mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kazsuk Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 7:06 AM To: Linux Admin Cc: NetApp Toasters List Subject: Re: StoreVault 500

    OK, one more time. Sorry.

    *       Software support is 9x5 or 24x7
    *       No SupportEdge, no customer-specific custom patches,

SAM, Quarterly audits * No Software subscription plan support available * No "investment protection" to enterprise customers such as upgradeability * No GSC support (call in to a different center) * Limited express parts replacement (Next business day shipment is standard with 4 hour onsite only in big ("NFL") cities , and may require a chassis swap)

     On 7/14/06, Tim Kazsuk <tdk.sysadmin@gmail.com> wrote:

                    Toasters,

            I have an amendment to send out regarding the StoreVault

product. I left off some important information that has to deal with the service and support differences between the StoreVault product and, for example, a regular filer.

            StoreVault Support:


            *       Software support is 9x5 or 24x7
            *       No SupportEdge, SAM, Quarterly audits
            *       No Software subscription plan support available
            *       No "investment protection" to enterprise

customers such as upgradeability * No GSC support (call in to a different center) * No express parts replacement (24 hour ship, and may require a box swap)

            On 7/14/06, Tim Kazsuk < tdk.sysadmin@gmail.com

mailto:tdk.sysadmin@gmail.com > wrote:

                    I haven't personally seen it but here's some

information about it:

                    ***Note - The S500 is only sold through NetApp's

resellers (cannot be sold direct).

                    Hardware:



                    *       Single controller design - no clustering

available * The S500 is a 2U in height and can house up to 12 hot-swappable SATA disks * Disks can be 250 or 500GB in size * RAID-DP is supported * Unit is scalable from 1TB to 6TB (raw), adding disk is a non-disruptive task. * Global hot spare * Hot swap fans/power supplies * Dual ethernet ports * Supports NFS, CIFS, iSCSI (all included)

                    *       NO external storage supported
                    *       FC support available in the Fall/2006

                    Software:



                    *       Data ONTAP SVE (StoreVault Edition) -

tuned for the SMB environment * Windows based GUI for management (this is NOT FilerView) * Snapshots (included) are supported up to 250 * SnapRestore (included) is supported (single click data recovery)

                    Things NOT supported: (if need, use the FAS200

line)

                    *       SnapMirror (cannot do remote

backup/mirroring) * SnapVault * Remote manageability (including DFM) * SupportConsole * Integration with Enterprise management tools (i.e. HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter, etc.)

                    Tim Kazsuk
                    Sr. Systems Engineer
                    Trace|3

                    www.trace3.com




                    On 7/14/06, Linux Admin <

sysadmin.linux@gmail.com mailto:sysadmin.linux@gmail.com > wrote:

                            Has anyone seen this device?
                            Any thoughts?
                            What are the limitations as compared to

"regular" filer? Thanks