On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 20:47, Adam Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, John Stoffel wrote: >> Fun! > > One of the better jobs I've had. :) > >> I like Netapp too, but I'm getting more and more pissed at their silly >> 16Tb limit on aggregates, it really starts killing you when you have >> 12 shelves, each with 14 1Tb drives in them. It makes carving up >> storage painful again. > > I agree -- it's been a longtime beef of mine that they insist on limiting > capacities based on what they think I want. I wish they would allow me to > exceed their limits with the understanding that it could affect > performance -- especially when I know I don't need performance in favor of > large archives and such.
The 16TB aggregate limit is a hard 32-bit addressing limit in Data ONTAP - version 8 has 64-bit aggregates but they still don't increase the aggregate limits all that much - maximum is 50 - 100TB depending on platform IIRC. (been bitten by the 16TB limit - now we use Bluearc for our big storage and Netapp for smaller stuff like /home and our software mount points) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
