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 wrote:
Has anyone seen this device? Any thoughts? What are the limitations as compared to "regular" filer? Thanks