I think this is the best idea. If you really need support for corporate policy reasons, there are plenty of 3rd-party companies that will provide hardware support for EOLed NetApps for a reasonable price.
--Ted On 5/20/2014 9:37 AM, John Stoffel wrote: > As for Windows as a file server for NFS, dunno, sorry. I like my > Netapps, they're rock solid and perform well. But they can/are > expensive to run. For your four year old Netapps, if they perform > just fine, and if you can sell it to management, why not just upgrade > them to the latest GA release, make sure it's stable then drop > support? Get some spare drives to keep on hand and go for it. Might > be quite cost effective and will let you also get the block storage > plan moving forward without having to switch all your eggs to a new > untested basket. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
