On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:00:09AM -0500, Todd C. Merrill wrote:
I'm all for that. As a previous post again showed, I need more cache in my environment (amount of NVRAM seems sufficient). The F740 has 1/2 GB, no more, no less. A write-intensive development environment is apparently not the optimally-tuned "typical" configuration that NetApp uses to configure their one-size-fits-all filers.
Perhaps in the future NetApp could be a bit more flexible in the configurations available, and maybe offer "professional services" to monitor and tune a filer for a specific application.
on the other hand, i can appreciate what they were trying to do with the F700 series. you slap those banks full of ram and ship it. this way you avoid someone in say idaho ( random state, no offense if anyone actually is reading this from idaho ) buying a 760 with 128M of RAM and wondering why he is getting such terrible numbers when the advertised figures were so much higher. it eliminates that as an issue when dealing with phone support. so while not perfect for everyone, it does at least make some kind of sense.
-s