Product Bulletin: NearStore® Personality License (NSPL) Support with V-Series

Revision History

Summary of Changes

01 May 2007

Initial Version

 

This Product Bulletin informs NetApp sales and NetApp partners about new or changed Network Appliance™ products or services.

CONFIDENTIAL Restricted to NetApp employees & channel partners under NDA copyright © 2007 Network Appliance Inc. All rights reserved.

  1. Summary
  2. What's New?
  3. Sales Tools
  4. Customer-Ready Tools 
  5. System Requirements
  6. Product Information
  7. Warranty and Service

 

1.   Summary

 

This product bulletin announces support for NearStore personality license with NetApp V-Series Virtualization Controllers.

 

2.   What’s New

 

NearStore personality license (NSPL) support with V-Series has been added to Data ONTAP® 7.2.2. This will scale the number of concurrent SnapMirror® and /SnapVault® replication streams of V-Series to the same level as the equivalent FAS model. ASIS support with V-Series is not included, but will be added in a later Data ONTAP release.

 

3.   Sales Tools (Sales Guides, Training Presentations, SE Presentations)

 

NetApp Sales 

NetApp Partners

 

4.   Customer-Ready Tools (Customer Presentations, Datasheets)

 

NetApp Sales 

NetApp Partners

 

 

5.   System Requirements

 

Please refer to the V-Series support matrix on the NOW™ site for the most current information and full details on supported configurations:

 http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/V-Series/supportmatrix/

 

6.   Product Information

 

V-Series models supported are:

·         V3020, V3040, V3050, V3070

·         V6030, V6070

 

Data ONTAP versions supported are:

·         Data ONTAP 7.2.2 and later

 

Part Number

Description

Discount Category Code

SW-Tx-NEARSTORE

Nearstore Software,Tx

J

SW-Tx-NEARSTORE-C

Nearstore Software,Tx,-C

J

 

      Software Subscription Plans

 

It is highly recommended that customers purchase an SSP for the NearStore personality license. The NearStore personality license is part of the NetApp SupportEdge Services program.  

 

Quoting  

NearStore personality license for V-Series is a selectable option on the applicable V-Series platform software tab. 

Product Availability

 

NearStore personality license for V-Series will be available to quote with the May 2007 Quote Tool release.

 

 

 

7.   Warranty and Service

 

 Standard software warranty and services apply.

 

 

Contact Information: Please contact your Network Appliance sales or channel partner representative with questions concerning this bulletin.

 

© 2007 Network Appliance, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications subject to change without notice. NetApp, the Network Appliance logo, Data ONTAP, NearStore, SnapMirror, and SnapVault are registered trademarks and Network Appliance and NOW are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.