On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 08:34:09PM -0400, Basil wrote:
In my mind, CDOT has lots of promise on paper, but where it falls flat against 7-mode is maturity. The maturity of a platform is hard to quantify, but generally more mature platforms will have seen and fixed more bugs. CDOT is still ironing some of these out, compared to 7-mode which just works.
We are just about to go to cluster mode and I cannot wait. I cannot see any reason to stay on 7-mode other than inertia.
As for maturity, there is some merit on your statement, but I see a much bigger issue is how much you trust your vendor. The biggest reason I like netapp is that they take data protection seriously.
"Just works" is why people are still using DOS. If you want new features you have to move forward with releases. Its unreasonable for any company to support old code past its use by date. IMHO, 7-mode is past its use by date.
Regards, pdg
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