Ok, I'm sure this has been covered somewhere during the years, and I'm well aware that this is taboo in terms of the NetApp IBM partnership, but I would like to attempt or rather investigate the following:
1. Reconfigure an IBM N3700 to FAS270, initializing the disks and deploying NetApp Data ONTAP, does anyone know if the underlying hardware (firmware) will accept this.
2. Add NetApp disks and shelves to the system, ie grow with NetApp directly and not neccessarily IBM.
Anyone attempted this your info would be helpful.
We are not concerned about the support agreements, financially NetApp is cheaper and easier, so in this day and age it all about the MONEY:).
Pardon me, but what's the point of doing that?
-Blake
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:58 PM, ifstat hockey@spidernet.net wrote:
Ok, I'm sure this has been covered somewhere during the years, and I'm well aware that this is taboo in terms of the NetApp IBM partnership, but I would like to attempt or rather investigate the following:
- Reconfigure an IBM N3700 to FAS270, initializing the disks and deploying
NetApp Data ONTAP, does anyone know if the underlying hardware (firmware) will accept this.
- Add NetApp disks and shelves to the system, ie grow with NetApp directly
and not neccessarily IBM.
Anyone attempted this your info would be helpful.
We are not concerned about the support agreements, financially NetApp is cheaper and easier, so in this day and age it all about the MONEY:).
-- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Covert-IBM-N-Series-to-NetApp-Solution-tp26690019p2669... Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
We were talking about this off-the-cuff and believe you'd have to push the NetApp flash firmware to the controller to make it NetApp DOT friendly. I have heard reports of trying to load DOT on N-series and it won't boot... apparently IBM has modified (booby-trapped?) the firmware to refuse to accept generic NetApp DOT.
This is all speculation, so YMMV! But I'd be interested to know how your science project works out ;-)
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Blake Golliher Sent: Tue 12/8/2009 12:56 AM To: ifstat Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Covert IBM N Series to NetApp Solution
Pardon me, but what's the point of doing that?
-Blake
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:58 PM, ifstat hockey@spidernet.net wrote:
Ok, I'm sure this has been covered somewhere during the years, and I'm well aware that this is taboo in terms of the NetApp IBM partnership, but I would like to attempt or rather investigate the following:
- Reconfigure an IBM N3700 to FAS270, initializing the disks and deploying
NetApp Data ONTAP, does anyone know if the underlying hardware (firmware) will accept this.
- Add NetApp disks and shelves to the system, ie grow with NetApp directly
and not neccessarily IBM.
Anyone attempted this your info would be helpful.
We are not concerned about the support agreements, financially NetApp is cheaper and easier, so in this day and age it all about the MONEY:).
-- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Covert-IBM-N-Series-to-NetApp-Solution-tp26690019p2669... Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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