Re: Anyone here using products from this company?
From: David R. Beatty (QWDavidER.TYBeattyUI_at_sas.com)
Date: 05/13/04
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Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:06:42 -0400
On Thu, 13 May 2004 11:33:54 -0400, "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com>
wrote:
>http://www.netapp.com
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>Opinions?
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We use extensively. If you have an environment that requires
shared access between Unix and Windows, they work extremely
well. If the usernames are the same, I think the Netapp will
map from Unix to Windows automatically by default. They aren't
terribly hard to manage, either. Adding disks to an existing volume
is very easy because of how their file system works; parity is always
on a single drive in a RAID set.
It takes some work to get VMS to talk to them, but it's possible
to do. For Multinet, you have to create VMS username to UID/GID
mappings. It defaults to any host, but you can restrict it to
specific hosts if you want to. The one problem on Multinet is the NFS
client through V4.4 supports ODS-2 only, so you see some very
strange filenames using Multinet. I'm not sure about Multinet V5.0.
According to Process, the NFS server supports ODS-5, but I'm
not sure about the client.
For TCP/IP Services, the best implementation is to create an NFS
proxy from the VMS username to the appropriate UID/GID pair with a
host of *, then define any hosts you want to connect to in the local
hosts table.
One of the issues you may run into is using mixed security for a
quota tree. Whatever sets the security last wins. The big issue
is if you have Windows ACLS and then perform a chmod from
Unix, you'll lose your ACLS.
I would probably not use a Netapp in a High Availability or a high
performance environment, but for general purpose NFS serving it
does it's job admirably.
David R. Beatty
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