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posted on 19 June 2008 09:52

NetApp has boosted the features of its clustered storage version of its Data ONTAP operating system - ONTAP GX.

With ONTAP GX, NetApp storage arrays become nodes in a cluster which is presented as a single super storage resource. The new release of GX adds:-

- Broader 10Gbit/s Ethernet support
- Support for 1TB disks
- Maximum capacity more than doubled to 14PB
- Support for NetApp FAS3040, FAS3070, FAS6070, and FAS6080 platforms
- Support for the Storage Acceleration Appliance which offers an NFS caching function in front of a GX cluster.

ONTAP GX, with its multinode scaling, global namespace and transparent data movement, offers scalable performance for a range of application workloads such as SPEC SFS97_R1 V3.0, sequential I/O, random I/O, and others. Its data protection features include RAID-DP Snapshot and restore, NDMP backup/restore, and asynchronous mirroring.

The new GX features are available immediately. NetApp has said it will converge ONTAP 7G and ONTAP GX and this is expected in the 2008/2009 time frame.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}