"Norman, Paul" wrote:
Over the last couple days, there has been some discussion about on-board FC-AL in our filers. This summer, NetApp started shipping filers with an FC-AL adapter card rather than the on-board FC-AL to improve reliability and performance. We did this because we found errors which, though recoverable, potentially effect performance and loop stability. The problem effected a very small fraction, just a few percent, of the installed base.
Thank you for your reply. However, you didn't address the main concern/perception of many folks here: that NetApp apparently shipped many F700 series systems with onboard FC-AL controllers that had hard failures shortly after being put into production, after which NetApp apparently started sending out new filers with the PCI card pre-installed, to be used in place of the onboard controller. That's quite different from what you just described.
Can you elaborate on and clarify this issue for us, please?
TIA, -ste