Thank you to all that took the time to answer my posting. It is nice to hear some positive responses when you are about to spend big bucks. I am particularlly interested in hearing the "conclusion" of Sam Schorr's Soap Opera about his experience with installation of cluster fail over.

Thanks again, Russ Amidon

Subject: Future Newbie Needs Advice To: toasters@mathworks.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Md5: gJvzv996YOYYC+QpWeuraQ==

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