Gil,
The F720 is not supported hardware for Ontap 7.
Extract from Data ONTAP 7.0RC4 Release notes:
Requirements for Running Data ONTAP 7.0RC4 Supported systems The following storage systems are supported: FAS900 series FAS200 series NearStore R200 NearStore R150 NearStore R100 F800 series F87
Note: Starting with this release the F700 series and the F85 are no longer
supported.
Chris Worby Storage Management, Information Systems, Vodafone UK
Vodafone Limited Site Address: Maxwell House, Newbury Business Park, London Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2PZ Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No 1471587
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Gil Freund Sent: 28 January 2005 11:59 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: iSCSI and OnTap 7 on F720
Hi,
I have an F720 used for CIFS and NFS on a site with about 30 users and a
4 port VIF (100Mbit/s x 4). The filer in constant use, but is not under heavy load.
We would like to move data which is in DAS (mainly our mail store, which
is a Cyrus IMAP server on Linux), which we would like to move to the filer.
Since I don't want to use NFS for this, and the virtual volumes would be
very handy in NDMP backups I was wondering whether it made sense to use those on an F720.
Any thoughts / field notes welcome
Gil
The F700 series is not supported hardware for ONTAP 7, but iSCSI is available in previous releases of ONTAP (such as 6.5). Of course, you lose features like the virtual volumes, and iSCSI limits the effectiveness of snapshots (the LUN is one big file, so the snapshot is of one big file), so it's very much your call on how you want to proceed. My understanding with the NDMP backups is that you would back up the entire LUN as a single file; alternatively, you could backup up the LUN as a filesystem from the client's perspective.
From my personal experience with iSCSI on an F760C, the initial configuration was a bit hairy, but once it was up and available, the Windows clients were able to mount it up and I saw performance that actually better than CIFS (using the IOZone benchmark).
Geoff Hardin UNIX System Administrator / Team Lead Dallas Semiconductor / Maxim Integrated Products geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com Love is deaf as well as blind, and walks with a limp.
Worby, Chris, VF UK wrote:
Gil,
The F720 is not supported hardware for Ontap 7.
Extract from Data ONTAP 7.0RC4 Release notes:
Requirements for Running Data ONTAP 7.0RC4 Supported systems The following storage systems are supported: FAS900 series FAS200 series NearStore R200 NearStore R150 NearStore R100 F800 series F87
Note: Starting with this release the F700 series and the F85 are no longer
supported.
Chris Worby Storage Management, Information Systems, Vodafone UK
Vodafone Limited Site Address: Maxwell House, Newbury Business Park, London Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2PZ Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No 1471587
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Gil Freund Sent: 28 January 2005 11:59 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: iSCSI and OnTap 7 on F720
Hi,
I have an F720 used for CIFS and NFS on a site with about 30 users and a
4 port VIF (100Mbit/s x 4). The filer in constant use, but is not under heavy load.
We would like to move data which is in DAS (mainly our mail store, which
is a Cyrus IMAP server on Linux), which we would like to move to the filer.
Since I don't want to use NFS for this, and the virtual volumes would be
very handy in NDMP backups I was wondering whether it made sense to use those on an F720.
Any thoughts / field notes welcome
Gil
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Geoff Hardin -
Worby, Chris, VF UK