An interesting article today on NetApp buying DataDomain. I sent this to my coworkers and it’s intersting they are buying a dedupe company when they were just touting their recent success with the penetration of ASIS. Questions now surround, where does ASIS go from here? Will it be the “cheap” version or are they no longer going to give away ASIS with their bundles.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/20/netapp-buys-data-domain-for-15b/
I’m awaiting the release of OnTap 8.0, but there are several things I’m waiting for that will come after 8.0.
Jeff O’Neal, NetApp’s senior director of Data Center Solutions, said Data OnTap 8.0 — which will merge Data OnTap 7G with the Data OnTap GX cluster platform — will be released later this year. “NetApp remains on track to release our first converged operating system in calendar ‘09,” O’Neal told Enterprise Storage Forum.
This is exciting if they can get 8.0 released this year. That means we might be able to look forward to 8.1 coming out sometime 2010. 8.1 should be an even more exciting release from what I’ve heard through the grape vine. I’m hoping still that 8.0 might have some of the advancements that GX had in the core OS. I’m hoping for tab-complete, a more GX light na-admin, and quite a few other GX like enhancements.
What do you guys think? What have you heard about 8.0?
DFSUTIL Backup
dfsutil /root:\\yourroot.local\DFS /export:c:\DFSbackup.txt
DFSUTIL Restore
dfsutil /root:\\yourroot.local\DFS /import:c:\DFSBackup.txt /set
http://metalsushi.blogspot.com/2008/07/dfs-backup-and-restore-using-dfsutil.html
well, quite a long time after I wrote this I’m finally releasing it. Let me know if you have any problems with it, I wanted to do a more detailed write-up but for now, at least I’ll get it out there ;). Click read-more if you’re interested in the link to the download.
I’ve gotten a little further. I’ve refined my perl script so that it gets data from various more reliable sources within GX. It’s been crazy busy at work but I should have the solution posted this week. 
Read on for some screenshots.
I’ve created a new site where I’m posting my various photos that I’ve taken. Most are city scenes and the like but for your viewing pleasure:
Recently this site was featured as #8 on the Storage Monkey’s Top 10 Storage Blogs (non-vendor) site. Please if you’re a storage engineer, work in the storage industry, this is a must join site!
http://blogs.storagemonkeys.com/index.php/2008/09/top-10-storage-blogs-non-vendor/
Here’s a sneak peak at what I’ve been up to. Once I’ve got everything done I’ll post the code and a how-to guide.
