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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