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Andrew,
I am
proud to say - we are listening!!
While
you did have the link to the brocade page in your email - you did not have
the link to the high level page for our tapesan solutions.
That
can be found here:
I'm not
sure which library you wanted to connect - but if you click on the Adic
lib under brocade (as an example) - you will get here:
And this
page shows all of the ADIC libs that are supported in a tapesan.
Assuming
further you were interested in the Scalar 10k from ADIC - you can scroll
down - and see not only supported fw config info - but a docs link - which
will get you to the jointly created (ADIC and Netapp) solution doc
and also
links at ADIC to help describe/help with configuring.
For the
oem'd san switch - our stance is if you are dealing with an oem switch
which is not changed by that oem vendor (firmware or hardware) then you
are really using the switch vendors switch - and we support as documented.
We only
ask that if you make this determination you also check any service contracts
with the oem to ensure they would not be violated - to our surprise some
oems have somewhat restrictive clauses.
Of course
- If the oem changes the switch in any functional way (firmware or hardware)
then we need them to certify their changes are valid.
I do
hope this helps and would ask that if you (or Graeme) are still having concerns
- please let me know.
Dave
Manager,
Certification and Operations
Technical
Marketing
Network
Appliance, Inc.