Re: Anyone here using products from this company?

From: John Smith (a_at_nonymous.com)
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:53:30 -0400

"David R. Beatty" <QWDavidER.TYBeattyUI@sas.com> wrote in message
news:hv97a0l2a0g9kcqu02b7922mr7r43nv813@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 13 May 2004 11:33:54 -0400, "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com>
> wrote:
>
> >http://www.netapp.com
> >
> >Opinions?
> >
> >
>
> 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.

Thanks for the info.

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