Toasters,
I have an amendment to send out regarding the StoreVault product. I left off some important information that has to deal with the service and support differences between the StoreVault product and, for example, a regular filer.
StoreVault Support:
- Software support is 9x5 or 24x7 - No SupportEdge, SAM, Quarterly audits - No Software subscription plan support available - No "investment protection" to enterprise customers such as upgradeability - No GSC support (call in to a different center) - No express parts replacement (24 hour ship, and may require a box swap)
On 7/14/06, Tim Kazsuk tdk.sysadmin@gmail.com wrote:
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