On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 05:20:17PM -0400, Fox, Adam wrote:
Not exactly true. 7-mode in ONTAP 8 does have larger than 16T aggregates, although it is for new aggregates. How large depends on your model, but it can be as high as 100T out of the gate with future increases to come in future releases.
That is good to hear. But then, what is the difference between 7-mode and native?
Any tips on how to migrate? We are thinking about breaking the sync- mirror relation in out FMC, the recreating one aggr on one side, do vol copy, then destroying the other side and reinitialize the sync mirror. The vol copy will however take too long as far as we know now. Now we have several aggr with 2 volumes each, close to 16 TB, with email and we cannot afford more than 1 or 2 hours downtime.
Even at 10 GbE (which interfaces we don't have), it will take minimum 4.5 hours that way :( And breaking the mirror makes me nervous.
Grtnx,