Excuse me. Maybe that has changed since the last time I worked with a ARX box.

-----Original Message----- From: Kirby Wadsworth [mailto:kirbyw@F5.com] Sent: 08 June 2009 09:53 To: Funke, Stefan; Babar Haq; Bob Blair; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: HSM/ILM for Netapp

Patently incorrect, Stefan.

ARX coordinates snapshots from multiple vendors including NTAP and creates a virtual snapshot across different arrays - a function that no other technology can provide.

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Funke, Stefan Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 3:42 AM To: Babar Haq; Bob Blair; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: HSM/ILM for Netapp

In a typical setup you will configure the ARX to ignore .snapshot directories. F5 doesn't know anything about NetApp snapshots nor does it manage any NetApp functionality like snapshots.

Stefan Funke Systems Engineer NetApp Deutschland GmbH

-----Original Message----- From: Babar Haq [mailto:babarhaq@email.com] Sent: 07 June 2009 07:52 To: Bob Blair; 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: RE: HSM/ILM for Netapp

The F5 ARX (Acopia) does support managing NetApp Snapshots.

What the customers means from snapshot support is that once a file moves to other storage it also clears the blocks which are being held by previous snapshots for that specific file. Is that what Acopia does?

Appreciate your response.

Regards, Babar Haq

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