While
this is true, one should also be aware that NetApp requires "gray market"
hardware to be recertified. If it is not recertified ($1000 minimum, $1500
for "non-business-hours") you will void your warrantee. The
recertification basically involved attaching the shelf, then creating a volume,
and running hammer.
At
least, that's what they made us do. YMMV.
Jordan
......We are maintaining NetApp support, so we would
need an
"approved" vendor,
etc.......
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Hi,
David:
You do not need to buy NetApp hardware from an "approved"
vendor, even if your filer is on NetApp hardware support.
Should
you choose to buy third-party-supplied NetApp hardware, you have the choice
of:
1) adding your third-party-supplied NetApp hardware to
your NetApp support contract,
2) utilizing, instead, any
hardware warranty provided by your third-party supplier, or
3)
going "bare."
Regards,
Scott
Scott Fischmann
Union
Computer Exchange, Inc.
6233 Idylwood Lane
Minneapolis, MN
55436
email: scott@unioncomputer.com
phone: 952 935 7282 | fax: 952 935
5056
"Helping our customers make each dollar go further -- since
1991!"
www.unioncomputer.com
Subj:Who to buy additional drives from?
Date:4/16/2003 4:36:55 PM Central Daylight Time
From:d.kindred@telesciences.com
To:toasters@mathworks.com
Sent
from the Internet
I need to add some drives to the DS14
on our F810, but had a couple of
questions.
Since the Filer has
performed so well, I haven't had much need to deal
with it, which is
good, but it also means I'm not as familiar with it as
I'd like. It
seems I only have time to learn about the things that
break :(
I
have been able to find answers to the technical questions on NOW, so
I
don't have to act stupid about those.
I do have one
non-technical questions left though:
When the time comes to buy the
drives should I go back to the VAR we
bought the system from, or direct
to NetApp, or should I consider some
other source? We are
maintaining NetApp support, so we would need an
"approved" vendor,
etc.
Thanks.
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<mailto:d.kindred@telesciences.com>
Unix Systems & Network
Administrator
Telesciences, Inc.
<http://www.telesciences.com>
Support:
<http://support.telesciences.com>
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