Netapp Clustermode

Netapp Clustermode has really got me excited about the new features available with the new Dataontap OS. The OS offers tab completion, history and offers several linux type commands.  I found in my years of working with Netapp technologies customers always complained about not having any of these features.

Netapp Clustermode allows customers to have 24 nodes added to a Netapp cluster, if you are using NAS protocols such as CIFS and NFS. You have the ability to have 6 nodes if you are using SAN (FCP).

I think this is a step in the right direction for Netapp. However, alot of customers are not ready to make the leap from 7mode to Clustermode. In my opinion most customers are probably waiting on version 8.2.

Here is list of some of the new features in version 8.2

• Support for SnapVault on systems running Clustered Data ONTAP
• Support for Single Node cDOT Clusters – This has big use case for customers who want to save some cost on their SnapMirror or SnapVault destinations.
• The ability to have Switchless, 2 node cDOT clusters. This takes away the need for having Cluster Interconnect switches for 2 node clusters
• Support for 8 Nodes in a SAN or Unified Cluster

I look forward to working with Dataontap cDOT clusters in the new future.