NetApp OnTap 8.0rc2 Filerview
Take a look at filerview. Not much different here except the branding. I'll post some other screenies as I go along and explore the new version.
NetApp DS4243 Disk Shelves
Finally SAS disk shelves from NetApp. Also in a 24 drive configuration.
Update: Looks like these will ship with new systems only starting December (and by new systems, it seems maybe only the FAS-3170s). General availability will come a few months later.
DS4243
Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode RC released
31xx (3160
is not supported in RC1)
Exciting. I'm thinking about installing this on a FAS-3070 next week. Hopefully have some screenshots. Since it's generally available on the NOW site you should be able to find it.
NetApp VFM Email Alerts
I spent a few hours doddling around with how to do email alerting with the provided VFM scripts. I finally ended up rewriting things just a little, but below is the basics of how to configure VFM to use email alerting.
A quick note, this most likely applies for the Brocade StorageX product as NetApp rebrands StorageX to work with NetApp filers.
NetApp Buys Data Domain for $1.5B
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/
NetApp OnTap 8.0
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?
NetApp GX Monitoring and Cacti
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.
OnTap GX Monitoring: Update
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.
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