Can NetApp provide some more details on this DELL <->NetApp announcement? http://www.dell.com/corporate/media/newsreleases/98/9811/04.htm http://www.netapp.com/news/level3b/news_rel_981104.html (a) Are they going to take say, a 740 stick Dell label on it and sell? (b) Is this going to replace Dell's disk subsystem? In which case the NetApp/disks are no longer a "network attached" system. Am I right? (c) Will this NetApp disk system from Dell loose any of NetApp's features, namely '.snapshot'.? (d) I would assume Dell system; no speak NFS??
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(d) I would assume Dell system; no speak NFS??
Not necessarily; I could imagine Dell wanting to sell the OEMed NetApp boxes into a mixed Windows/UNIX environment.
I wouldn't expect the boxes to be incapable of supporting NFS; whether Dell will support them as NFS servers, and sell NFS licenses for them, is another matter.
However, they may want it to be *possible* to use the boxes in a Windows-only environemtn.
(I don't know one way or the other; the above is speculation, but it does note that one could speculate that not all of them would be NFS-only.)
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