I haven't personally seen it but here's some information about it:<br><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">***Note - The S500 is only sold through NetApp's resellers
(cannot be sold direct).<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hardware:</span><br></span><br>

<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Single controller design – no clustering
     available</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The S500 is a 2U in height and can house up to
     12 hot-swappable SATA disks</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Disks can be 250 or 500GB in size </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
RAID-DP is supported</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Unit is scalable from 1TB to 6TB (raw), adding
     disk is a non-disruptive task.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Global hot spare </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
Hot swap fans/power supplies</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Dual ethernet ports</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
Supports NFS, CIFS, iSCSI (all included)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">NO external
     storage supported</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">FC support
     available in the Fall/2006</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Software:</span><br><br><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
Data ONTAP SVE (StoreVault Edition) – tuned for
     the SMB environment</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Windows based GUI for management (this is NOT
     FilerView)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Snapshots (included) are supported up to 250</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
SnapRestore (included) is supported (single
     click data recovery)</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Things NOT </span>supported: (if need, use the FAS200 line)</span><br><br>

<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">SnapMirror (cannot do remote backup/mirroring)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
SnapVault</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Remote manageability (including DFM)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
SupportConsole </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Integration with Enterprise management tools (i.e. HP
     OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter, etc.)</span></li></ul>

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Tim Kazsuk<br>Sr. Systems Engineer<br>Trace|3<br><br><a href="http://www.trace3.com" title="http://www.trace3.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.trace3.com</a><br>

<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Linux Admin</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:sysadmin.linux@gmail.com" title="mailto:sysadmin.linux@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sysadmin.linux@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Has anyone seen this device?<br>Any thoughts?<br>What are the limitations as compared to &quot;regular&quot; filer?<br>Thanks<br>

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