Compression is generally available with Data ONTAL 8.1.

________________________________ From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Milazzo Giacomo [G.Milazzo@sinergy.it] Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 23:18 To: Fred Grieco; jon-bousselot@pacbell.net; johnpc@xs4all.nl; jeff.cleverley@avagotech.com Cc: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: R: R: 8.1 64 bit upgrades.

For what I know this is true for all revision and fas. I don’t have further news on that.

Bye

Da: Fred Grieco [mailto:fredgrieco@yahoo.com] Inviato: sabato 22 ottobre 2011 20:04 A: jon-bousselot@pacbell.net; johnpc@xs4all.nl; jeff.cleverley@avagotech.com; Milazzo Giacomo Cc: toasters@teaparty.net Oggetto: Re: R: 8.1 64 bit upgrades.

Is this true for any box or rev level?

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________________________________ From: Milazzo Giacomo <G.Milazzo@sinergy.itmailto:G.Milazzo@sinergy.it>; To: Jon Bousselot <jon-bousselot@pacbell.netmailto:jon-bousselot@pacbell.net>; Jan-Pieter Cornet <johnpc@xs4all.nlmailto:johnpc@xs4all.nl>; Jeff Cleverley <jeff.cleverley@avagotech.commailto:jeff.cleverley@avagotech.com>; Cc: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net>; Subject: R: 8.1 64 bit upgrades. Sent: Sat, Oct 22, 2011 3:32:36 PM Hi all,

compression is still available only requesting a PVR. Compression feature is not yet perfectly fixed.

Regards.

Da: toasters-bounces@teaparty.netmailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net]mailto:[mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] Per conto di Jon Bousselot Inviato: giovedì 20 ottobre 2011 00:32 A: Jan-Pieter Cornet; Jeff Cleverley Cc: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net Oggetto: Re: 8.1 64 bit upgrades.

8.1 RC1 docs say that compression is only available for flexvols within 64 bit aggregates. Storage Management Guide pdf, page 242

________________________________ From: Jan-Pieter Cornet <johnpc@xs4all.nlhttps://webmail.ts.fujitsu.com/OWA/UrlBlockedError.aspx> To: Jeff Cleverley <jeff.cleverley@avagotech.comhttps://webmail.ts.fujitsu.com/OWA/UrlBlockedError.aspx> Cc: "toasters@teaparty.nethttps://webmail.ts.fujitsu.com/OWA/UrlBlockedError.aspx" <toasters@teaparty.nethttps://webmail.ts.fujitsu.com/OWA/UrlBlockedError.aspx> Sent: Wed, October 19, 2011 3:16:13 PM Subject: Re: 8.1 64 bit upgrades.

On 2011 Oct 19, at 20:36 , Jeff Cleverley wrote:

Thanks for the reply. Does anyone know if NetApp plans to change the process anytime in the future? An "aggr modify 64bit-upgrade" would be really nice :-)

What exactly does a 64 bit aggr buy you if it also fits in a 32 bits aggr (as it obviously currently does)? (Besides wasting more space for metadata).

I think the whole point of 64 bit aggrs is to be able to be able to expand beyond 16T/aggr. If your current aggr is smaller than that... what's the benefit of going to 64 bit?

...

I've starting playing around with the 8.1 RC1 release. I want to upgrade some aggregates from 32 bit to 64 bit. From what I can tell, the only way to do this is to add additional disks to an existing aggregate. Is that correct?

I've got one filer with limited disks and don't want to add 1 additional disk to a raid group. I don't want to do all the associated reallocates to smooth out the data allocation.

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