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