> The storevault is running a somewhat tweaked ontap. The version we > had, we could ssh into and run the normal ontap commands. But this > was *unsupported* and they weren't very happy with us for it. > > Though it worked, I probably wouldn't buy one again. It felt like > netapp hamstrung it to encourage people to buy up market.
Several people have essentially alluded to the storevault as sort of a teaser for up market netapp products. I'm not sure I agree - I think that Data ONTAP is, or was, a software product available to purchase, if you could get it to run on some other hardware. I think that storevault as a company made their business by building sata systems, cheaper than the regular netapp products, and out-compete netapp at their own game, in the SMB market. So netapp boughtout storevault. The things that attract me to this product are - low cost (sata disks, 12 slots) - snapshotting - dual parity - expand on the fly. I think you can get snapshotting from sun, but can you do dualparity or expand on the fly? I would be totally happy with the product, if only they had delivered my replacement parts within the 4 hour window I paid for. I wonder - is anyone in the same category as me? Totally happy with it, except for the failure of support to get the system back up promptly after failure? _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
