I have two F760 Cluster systems (Four total heads).
It's been extremely stable, and I did have to perform one OS upgrade, and replace one MB due to a FC 'oddness'.
Ive always had hardware when I needed it, and tech support has been so solid for me too.
Your BEST tech support is with your SE if avialable, it seems that sometimes I can get better OS advice from my SE than from the 800#, but thats common with the guy in the field having the up-to-the-minute advice ahead of a database somewhere else.
You'll enjoy your system!
-----Original Message----- From: Russ Amidon [SMTP:amidon@pico.sps.mot.com] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 3:56 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Future Newbie Needs Advice
Hello Everyone,
I am about to purchase two F760's w/ Cluster Failover Software and Hardware because we need a system that is 100% available and rock solid. I was convinced after talking to other Net App users that this was the way to go. After a week of reading this mailing list, I am no longer convinced. Does anyone out there have the system I described? Are you happy with it? I am particularly concerned about the fiber channel problems and all of the OS upgrades and patches.
We are also considering the new Auspex NS2000. Does anyone know of an Auspex mailing list like this one?
Thank you in advance for any advise you can offer to the "future newbie".
Russ Amidon UNIX Sys Admin
If you monitor this mailing list you will get the impression that the NetApp products have nothing but problems. That's because people without problems don't need to post. It's sort of like going to an AA meeting and complaining, "Gosh, you're all alcoholics! Doesn't anyone here NOT have a drinking problem?"
Then again, a lot of the questions posted here are "how to"'s and "what if"'s.
If everyone without a NetApp problem posted a message every day, we'd be in serious trouble.
I used to be a big Auspex fan. Now I'm a big NetApp fan. (actually, I'm a fan of big NetApps :-) ). The CIFS/NFS integration is so tight its a thing of beauty. The RAID, wafl, and other features make it difficult to even evaluate any other box. Now re-evaluating BudTool on the other hand...
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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
|If you monitor this mailing list you will get the impression that the |NetApp products have nothing but problems. That's because people |without problems don't need to post. It's sort of like going to an AA |meeting and complaining, "Gosh, you're all alcoholics! Doesn't anyone |here NOT have a drinking problem?"
I agree with this as well. We have run into many bugs with our netapps, but never have had an outage longer than 5minutes, and NEVER have lost any data. That IMO is a strong statement for network attached storage.
We also are running NetApp Release 4.3.5D2 and refuse to upgrade. "If it aint broke, don't break it"
|I used to be a big Auspex fan. Now I'm a big NetApp fan. (actually, I'm |a fan of big NetApps :-) ). The CIFS/NFS integration is so tight its a |thing of beauty. The RAID, wafl, and other features make it difficult |to even evaluate any other box. Now re-evaluating BudTool on the other |hand...
Mmmm....if only a native legato client :-)
Jonah
Jonah Barron Yokubaitis http://www.texas.net <--- The ISP http://www.giganews.com <--- News Outsourcing
With hand on heart, I could say I've been guilty of some NetApps-bashing in the past, though not without good reason. However, I am myself a strong proponent of NetApps. I have a mixed environment (NT, WIndows 95/98, Solaris, Hp-Unix) and there is nothing else out there which comes even close in terms of speed , cost, simplicity of management and interoperability. The NetApps server is the only one I know which has the complete solution to a mixed environment in one box.
Raymond Brennan, Renoir Development Team, Mentor Graphics UK,
Tel: 01635 811 411; Fax: 01635 810 108; e-mail: ray_brennan@mentorg.com
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