I was curious if anyone knew if the following config is supported.
Our 'main' filer has a volume that we make available in remote offices using flexcache. All of our filers are still running 7-Mode and we are about to do a forklift upgrade of our main filer.
It is tempting to go to Clustered OnTap but its not clear if I would also have to upgrade all the filers in remote offices to Clustered OnTap at the same time as well or if I can continue to use 7-Mode and still be able to access the volume on the main filer via flexcache.
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Steven Kreuzer skreuzer@freebsd.org wrote:
I was curious if anyone knew if the following config is supported.
Our 'main' filer has a volume that we make available in remote offices using flexcache. All of our filers are still running 7-Mode and we are about to do a forklift upgrade of our main filer.
It is tempting to go to Clustered OnTap but its not clear if I would also have to upgrade all the filers in remote offices to Clustered OnTap at the same time as well or if I can continue to use 7-Mode and still be able to access the volume on the main filer via flexcache.
7m nodes can be Flexcache clients using a CDOT flexcache server.
CDOT *can't* be a flexcache client of another CDOT cluster, so you don't want to upgrade the remote office systems.
-skottie
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Yes, you can do this. I have a cluster mode install at one site with caches (7mode) at other sites.
--rdp
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I was curious if anyone knew if the following config is supported.
Our 'main' filer has a volume that we make available in remote offices using flexcache. All of our filers are still running 7-Mode and we are about to do a forklift upgrade of our main filer.
It is tempting to go to Clustered OnTap but its not clear if I would also have to upgrade all the filers in remote offices to Clustered OnTap at the same time as well or if I can continue to use 7-Mode and still be able to access the volume on the main filer via flexcache.
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Thanks for the replies. It sounds like it might be time to bite the bullet and move to cdot.
Out of curiosity, since NetApp is no longer developing 7-Mode is the plan to eventually sunset flexcache and is there some other way to get flexcache like capability in cdot?
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Payne, Richard richard.payne@amd.com wrote:
Yes, you can do this. I have a cluster mode install at one site with caches (7mode) at other sites.
--rdp
-----Original Message----- From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Steven Kreuzer Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 3:38 PM To: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Flexcache w/ Clustered OnTap
I was curious if anyone knew if the following config is supported.
Our 'main' filer has a volume that we make available in remote offices using flexcache. All of our filers are still running 7-Mode and we are about to do a forklift upgrade of our main filer.
It is tempting to go to Clustered OnTap but its not clear if I would also have to upgrade all the filers in remote offices to Clustered OnTap at the same time as well or if I can continue to use 7-Mode and still be able to access the volume on the main filer via flexcache.
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There is no plan to support FlexCache in CDOT as far as I know. The Avere Systems caching product has been qualified by NetApp to provide FlexCache capability (and more) in all-CDOT environments. See the below TR-4443 for more information.
http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4443.pdf
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