Seems a lot of people are going to 7G quite early.
Are there other environments like mine out there where you have been burnt badly by a minor release?
We have, more than once and are extremely reluctant to recommend an upgrade before this OS has been seen in the wild for at least 6-12 months.
Don't get me wrong, I am 100% confident in the quality control and testing completed by NetApp. My fledgling wisdom tells me to take things very slowly because this story has only just begun.
So to all you pioneers that are taking the plunge early........ Strap on you six-shooters and cowhide boots...... Yeeha Cowboys! And thank you. May all your bits be randomnly distributed :P
-----Original Message----- From: Skottie Miller [mailto:skottie@anim.dreamworks.com] Sent: Friday, 4 February 2005 10:03 AM To: Hill, Aaron Cc: Holland, William L; John Stoffel; 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: Re: OnTap 7 Aggregates
Hill, Aaron wrote:
I have not read anything yet on a transition method from standalone
volumes
so they can be placed into an aggregate as flexvols? i.e. Without adding more disk and doing some snapmirror (volume or qtree). I guees I am
talking
about a conversion(transmutation?) into the aggregate rather than a migration.
Please interrupt me right now if there is a way to do this.
It's going to be a pain. buy or borrow some extra shelves if possible, so you have a "peg" to use for the shuffle.
long ago, in early discussions about the OnTap version that became 7G, I could swear that you could convert a traditional volume into a FlexVol, and its underlying spindles into an aggregate. but, that feature appears to have been removed, or never made it.
We added R200 shelves, and have been emptying ds14's where possible to get enough spindles to start the migration adventure. 56 volumes and 500 qtrees, with no production interruption, is going to take awhile ;-)
-skottie
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