In my 10+ years of dealing with Netapp, I have never known them to remove a feature from OnTAP, and can't imagine them starting now- especially one used by thousands of installations today.  Perhaps your users misunderstood what they heard in training?  A trainer would also never disclose that kind of information in that forum as presumably not everyone in the room would be under NDA, and that kind of information, if true (and I suspect not) would be confidential.
 
 

From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of JONES P.S.
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:13 AM
To: Tracy Russell; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Mixed Mode

I trust this is an individual's surmise and no more. I have not heard of this remote possibility
in any shape or form. We rely absolutely on mixed mode presentation to our users; its one of
the keystone elements of our single authentication, single filestore architecture. Losing this would be
too much to contemplate.
 
Paul Jones,  B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D. - Head of Systems Services,
Information Technology Service, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE
Email:      p.s.jones@durham.ac.uk      Phone/Fax:  0191 334 2749/2701

From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Tracy Russell
Sent: Wed 3/15/2006 2:19 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Mixed Mode

Does anyone know the future of the security mode -- "mixed mode"?
Several co-workers returned from NetApp training stating that this
particular mode is not encouraged and may be dropped in the not too
distant future from NetApp support.

Has anyone else heard this or can confirm this to any degree? We are
about to set up a new Filer and I'm trying to decide what to do with a
volume that is currently configured for mixed mode security on an old Filer.

If anyone has experiences changes from mixed mode to either all CIFS or
NFS, I'd appreciate their inputs as well.

Thanks.

Tracy