Nuview is not in the data path, it merely manages the DFS links. When the Nuview server goes down, the links are still in place on the filer(s), and the data is still available.

Alan

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-----Original Message----- From: James Brigman [mailto:jbrigman@nc.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:35 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Cc: jbrigman@nc.rr.com Subject: Re: HSM and NetApp

For CIFS data, Microsoft's DFS might also be a usable solution for what the poster had in mind, being able to move data around a bit.

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Are people seeing good results with NuView?

I'd heard it runs on the "mini-SQL" database that vendors now ship with products (a subset of Microsoft SQL) and it's not clusterable or configurable in any highly available manner.

I understand that if you lose the server running NuView, you lose access to all the migrated data?

I'm not trying to lay flamebait, I just want to hear some "5000 mile reports" from people running NuView in the field.

JKB