Hi,
I wonder if anyone here knows if its possible to install the NetApp ONTAP software on my own hardware?
I know you can buy a NetApp DS and hook it up to anything via SAS, but I would like to try out the ONTAP solution to see how it works/performs compared to e.g. FreeNAS, which is a mixed bag of pleasure.
I mean I like FreeNAS, but I think its too much of a consumer product to my taste, since i mostly use my "nas" for VM storage and backup - I don't use any of the other features FreeNAS offers and I would like to sample a "real" SAS/NAS system with nothing of the consumer stuff that FreeNAS has.
I would like to try a good ISCSi implementation and NFS 4.1 - and NFS 4.1 is not yet in FreeNAS as far as I know - and the ISCSi I haven't had that great experience with.
I know NetApp provides a VSA, but its a different beast than ONTAP.
Thanks
I wonder if anyone here knows if its possible to install the NetApp ONTAP software on my own hardware?
I know you can buy a NetApp DS and hook it up to anything via SAS, but I would like to try out the ONTAP solution to see how it works/performs compared to e.g. FreeNAS, which is a mixed bag of pleasure.
I mean I like FreeNAS, but I think its too much of a consumer product to my taste, since i mostly use my "nas" for VM storage and backup - I don't use any of the other features FreeNAS offers and I would like to sample a "real" SAS/NAS system with nothing of the consumer stuff that FreeNAS has.
I would like to try a good ISCSi implementation and NFS 4.1 - and NFS 4.1 is not yet in FreeNAS as far as I know - and the ISCSi I haven't had that great experience with.
I know NetApp provides a VSA, but its a different beast than ONTAP.
Thanks