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ONTAP 8.0.1 RC1 Available

September 3, 2010 By 8 Comments

The NOW site shows ONTAP 8.0.1 RC1 available for download as of today: https://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/ontap/8.0.1RC1/

At the time of this post all the links for release notes show a page not found, hopefully more information will be available shortly.

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  • http://twitter.com/mohit96 Mohit

    Release notes are available now, the best thing i see over there is support for PAM-II cards other than few small things however all the information is only for 7-mode, no news for cluster node except a mail link which asks you to send a mail to them and then one of their guys will contact you for information.

  • http://mtellin.com mtellin

    Good point, the other thing I was looking forward to is I believe 8.0.1 brings VAAI support for VMware environments. Hopefully the 8.0.1 simulator is out soon so I can test it out with iSCSI

  • Dejan Ilic

    I see a few quite important (for us a least) steps forward.
    *) 64bit root now possible, you can scrap all 32bit aggregates if you wish to
    *) CIFS SMB2.0 is back, we are increasingly moving over to Windows 7 and have users far away (45km)
    *) TSO support, although I don’t understand why TOE is scrapped especially in modern cards.
    *) Unified Target adapter support (NFS/CIFS, ISCSI, FCoE in the same card) for us with limited number of available expansion slots (netapp 3140 metrocluster).
    *) Vmware VAAI support, for offloading certain tasks to the storage from vSphere virtual system.

    And as a small bonus, you have SSD-disk support. But support for compression (not dedupe) is not mentioned so it will probably be there in the next release.

    There is actualy on huge obstacle that is a showstopper for us to move from 7.3.4 to 8.0.1:
    *) There is still no (easy) way of converting 32bit aggregate to 64bit aggregates, preferably online.

    Without it we would have a huge downtime while copying data from our incredilbly slow SATA aggregates (14x1TB disk aggrs).

  • http://mtellin.com mtellin

    From what I have heard 8.1 will bring the ability to convert 32 bit aggregates to 64 bit aggregates. I was told by a local SE that NetApp PS can be involved to do this prior to 8.1 but I suspect what they meant was simply doing QSM’s.

  • Cyril_vieville

    Hi Mike,
    I contacted you few months ago because i was and i’m still looking for a simulator (version 8.0.1 would be perfect) to learn and practice. I would like to work as a NETAPP specialist but i don’t have any opportunity to reach my goal without getting a simulator and practicing as much and as long as i wish.

    So how could i get a simulator or kind of please ?

  • http://mtellin.com mtellin

    Unfortunately the 8.0.1 simulator isn’t even available yet

  • cyril vieville

    Hi MIke,

    Thank you for the answer.
    I finally found a rapidshare version of 8.0 simulator. What a shame to download it like that but as Netapp is so stupid to prevent me from downloading it… because i’m ONLY a customer through IBM rebrand products. I still don’t understand this policy because it’s still NetApp products behind. If you’re aware of a way to be able to get a legal access by being an IBM customer, please tell me.
    Thank you

  • http://storagebuddhist.wordpress.com/ StorageBuddhist

    You should be able to get the simulator from your IBM BP, who can get it from their local IBM office.