On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Ryan Dorman wrote: > Guilty as charged. > > You're right, swapping trays is no fun... and it a part that doesn't > just work. I suppose my comment should have been "once its up and > running, i generally dont have to mess with it" > > Certainly not taken to be argumentative.. i'd hate to get a nasty email > from someone who bought a NetApp and then cursed that idiot from > Lopsa-tech who said it was perfect :)
Oh, come on, this is the *Internet* -- nobody curses people out on here! :) Seriously, there are a lot of things about NetApp that "just work", and I think in general there's a longer list of "just works" for them than for many other vendors. I think there are ways that shelves could be upgraded non-disruptively, but it's certainly not as easy as plugging new ones in and unplugging old ones. However, I'm not sure there are a lot of cases for doing that. The shelf shouldn't "run out of warranty" before the system -- it's sold as a whole unit, and unless you're changing the connectivity in the ESH modules (for example), the *shelf* wouldn't need to be changed out anyway. I don't think NetApp has approved hot-adding shelves to a loop yet, which is a shame. It does work, but last I saw (a couple of years ago) it was unsupported. -Adam _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
