In the immortal words of Kendall Libby (fubar@mathworks.com):
jss> - the clustering did not work. Paid for cluster and the failover jss> did not work as advertised.
Heh. I think this is Nathan's cue.
Eh. I don't really feel like joining in the pile-on here. By and large, I've liked Netapp's products, and their support has generally ranged from the top-notch to the purple-heart territory. (Hi Puneet!) I did my ranting at the time to our sales reps and my beer buddies. :-)
A couple people did ask me for clarification on my earlier, cryptic comments about failover, so here's the reader's digest version: I got bit by the bad FCAL controller problem on the early F760 motherboards. The controller failed during the reconstruction of a failed disk, and the partner head disabled cf takeover. Bad scene, lots of downtime, hovering executives, swarming EMC salesdroids, the works. Moving from the onboard db9 controller to one of the qlogic (?) pci card controllers resolved the issue.
-n
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