Since none of us have experience with NetApp around here I'm not sure we've 
thought that far yet.

The reason for getting it is that our primary file server is filling up and we 
need to add capacity and decided it was time to bite the bullet.

So this will be primarily for file serving and the size will be around 16 TB 
with 2 TB SATA drives (our current file server is about 3 TB on a full backup). 
 It will be served to our users through a DFS server.

I don't really have answers to your other questions at this point.

BTW, our current version of NetWorker is 7.6.1 but I expect to be on 7.6.2 when 
we install the NetApp.

Thanks, Dave

Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Eugene Vilensky
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:38 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] NetApp

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Werth, Dave <dave.werth AT garmin DOT com> 
wrote:
> So, what advice can people give about setting up the NetApp and backing it 
> up?  Anything will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Dave

Which protocols and applications will you be running?  If file
services, did you buy enough capacity to make snapshots your primary
means of backup with tape as a fail-back?

Ontap 8.1 is almost GA -- make sure you set up 64-bit aggregates if
you need > 16 TB per aggregate at some point in the future :)

What kind of disk mix did you acquire?  Any Flash Cache?

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