You'll want to test the ability for the Compaq system to maintain NFS sessions across reboots and failover events (if you need failover). This is pretty important for databases and application that require continuous access to their data files. On several notable Unix operating systems used as NFS servers, you will create stale file handles on the client systems upon a reboot of the NFS server. It may be worth noting that network attached storage is a pretty new business for Compaq, and it is definitely not their major focus.

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Langborg Tom Tom.Langborg@smhi.se 10/02/00 08:57AM >>>

Hi I am a old netapp admin. I am wonder if there is someone how can help me with argument to choice netapp instead off compaqs tasksmart server. From my point it looks that the tasksmart version 2.0 witch should come next year should work well. We should have this server to access both nfs and cifs. Most off the client are pc but the major files traffics are in nfs. The volumes are for start 500gb to over 1 Tb next year. What about uptime? reboot time? snapshot mirror?

/Tom Langborg