NetApps are no different with respect to upgrading the OS. In the past, I had tried to keep current. This only led me to drink :). NetApps are a filer best left alone to serve data until the time you want a feature or a bug fix of the next release/patch.
I have also found that Auspices are best left alone. In either case, Auspex or NetApp, the part of the filer that fails most often is the disk drive and we have hot spares for both.
-gdg
Michael Salmon wrote:
+----- On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 07:48:28 CDT, Arvind K Aggarwal writes: | Maybe our Auspex sales people don't know what is going on with CIFS. | They have constantly pointed us to using SAMBA because of their | inability to support CIFS. Overall Auspex is HIGHLY unreliable as | compared to Network Appliances. At least that is OUR experience here.
I've worked with Auspices for over 5 years now and some of the machines that we have here are even older than that. My toaster experience is much less, about 18 months.
I find that Auspices are extremely reliable if you leave them alone, part of that is due to some of the OS releases that come out of Auspex, particularly the odd releases for some unknown reason. We have only rarely had any hardware problems with them and I don't recall that we ever had a big outage as a result.
/Michael