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1. Summary
This
product bulletin announces the availability of Virtual File Manager™ 6.0 for the
Enterprise Edition and Migration Edition. 2.
What’s New VFM 6.0
is a major release that adds the following new features: Phased
migration—This feature enables customers to stage the data migration
operation. Customers can run automatically repeated data copy operations
before running the final copy and cutover, and control when the migration
operation moves from one phase to another. This feature is available for the
archival migration, migration, and storage load-balancing policies. Quick
addition of multiple targets to a link—This feature enables customers to
clone an existing link target to quickly multiply the number of targets
linked: for example, cloning a WAFS edge device can quickly increase the
number of such devices linked to a WAFS core. Agent
management—This feature enhances the management of replication and monitoring
agents and the VFM® server, including deployment credentials. Replication
agent groups—This feature enables customers to add multiple replication
agents to an agent group and assign the group to a policy to distribute the
data migration workload. This improves flexibility and performance in
many-to-one replication scenarios. DFS
attributes supported for namespace backup and restore—This feature enables
you to use the new DFS attributes introduced in the Windows® Server 2003
release NFS
migration performance improvement—NFS migration performance has increased
20%– 30% under the same conditions. NFS platform coverage—Customers can now replicate data from Solaris™ 10, Red Hat 4, EMC Celerra, HP, and AIX platforms to NetApp storage appliances. For the complete compatibility matrix, please check the NOW™ site. 3.
Sales Tools (Sales Guides, Training Presentations,
SE Presentations) · NetApp Partners -- Check the VFM page on PartnerCenter. 4.
Customer-Ready Tools (Customer Presentations,
Datasheets) · NetApp Partners -- Check the VFM
page on PartnerCenter Before installing
VFM, ensure that the system in which the VFM components are installed meets
the following requirements: ·
Microsoft®
Windows 2000 SP 2 or later or Windows XP Professional, to manage roots on
Windows NT® 4 or Windows 2000 servers ·
Microsoft
Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003, to manage multiple roots on a
single Windows Server 2003 ·
Microsoft
SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) Service Pack 3 or later, SQL Server
2000 Standard or Enterprise Edition Service Pack 3 or later, or Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 Express Standard or Enterprise Edition, to install the VFM
database and monitoring agents ·
Microsoft.NET
Framework 2.0 ·
Internet
Explorer™ 5.5 or later ·
Windows
Script Host 5.6 or later ·
At least
2GB of RAM ·
At least
2GHz or faster processor ·
500MB of
free disk space ·
Local
fixed NTFS disks, to install the VFM components ·
32-bit
operating system (64-bit not supported) ·
Minimum
video display of 1,024 by 768 pixels with 256 colors (more than 256 colors
recommended for best display) ·
Remote
Desktop Protocol (RDP) strongly recommended, to connect to remote machines
(other products providing remote desktop access, such as VNC, have exhibited
screen rendering problems with VFM) There
are no licensing, pricing, and CE changes for this release of VFM. The standard client software
warranty will apply. Contact Information: Please contact your
Network Appliance sales or channel partner representative with questions
about this bulletin. © 2007 Network Appliance, Inc. All rights
reserved. Specifications
subject to change without notice. NetApp, the Network Appliance logo, and VFM
are registered trademarks and Network Appliance, NOW, and Virtual File
Manager are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in
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