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NeuroPsyche

I purchased some NetApp filers and found that NetApp does not allow for the
transfer of the licenses to filer appliances.

does anyone know if there is a FreeBSD image for working as a filer? Such as a NetApp R200 filer?

The filers I purchased were NetApp. Their boot is based upon a special build of FreeBSD. The FreeBSD custome build from OnTap/NetApp requires licensing.

I'm sure that this hardware is not just a paperweight. There has to be a build of FreeBSD that would work as a filer on the NetApp based hardware, such as an R200.

If anyone knows or if this would be a new project I'd be open to help constructing a build that would work on the filer hardware.

Thanks,
Dave.
 
OnTap is not just a "custom build" of FreeBSD. While it's true that the latest version, OnTap8, boots a FreeBSD kernel, that's mostly used to kick-start the 99% of the system that is NetApp proprietary (raidmanager, wafl filesystem, etc).

Having said that, the R200 never booted a FreeBSD kernel as the latest release to run on that hardware was 7.x
 
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