I would agree.. I think I have moved the original bits 3 times now..
I think getting the data into some sort of data mover (vfilers, vservers, etc) is a step in the right direction. Each year, its about 400 hours of my time is dealing with upgrades, downtime, communication, blah blah.. If NA would have had an acopia like device a few years ago, this would have helped with multiple CIF migrations.. At least with the cluster mode, it can scale, and has a global name space.
Steve
From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Peter D. Gray [pdg@uow.edu.au] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 8:06 PM To: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: On cluster mode
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 03:35:12AM +0000, steve klise wrote:
WE aren't running it yet, but I think when CIFS 3.0 is supported, we will take serious look. One thing Netapp should be working on is a forklift option; maybe its not an option to upgrade (yet), so its going to be a pain to migrate for us. Any new project, we will take a look. The other problem is we snapmirror most of our stuff and as of now, 7mode and cluster mode are not compatible.. I think you will need different DFM versions to monitor your environment, but don't quote me on that.. We have been waiting for other apps to catch up, such as Varonis, NTP software, etc.
The driver for this for me is I am getting really really tired of moving data between volumes/aggrgates to manage space and performance. With our new cheap and slow sata drives, this is becoming a full time job (yes we have cache).
It would be so nice to move data without downtime.
It looks like it is ready for prime time, it the migration issues that will slow it all down.
Regards, pdg
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