Archive for August 2nd, 2007

Bodies: The Exhibition

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

This past weekend, Rebecca and I went to one of the malls in Durham, The Streets at Southpoint. While there, we went to BODIES: The Exhibition. What is it? Their website describes it as:

BODIES…The Exhibition

Celebrate the wonder of the human form in the World Premier
of BODIES … The Exhibition—a phenomenal look at the phenomena
we call the human body.

With educational relevance for all ages, this exhibition
of real human specimens immerses visitors in the complexities
of the human body, telling us the amazing story of ourselves
with reverence and understanding.

Apparently they go all over the U.S. If you get an opportunity to check it out, I highly recommend it. I found the exhibits to be amazing! Prior to going, I thought it would be kind of disgusting, but they were just presented in such a perfect way. It was very educational!

Data ONTAP DSM 3.1 posted to NOW

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Data ONTAP(R) DSM 3.1 for Windows(R) MPIO has been posted to the NetApp NOW website. Last week, we finalized the product and it is now available for download. This release includes the following new features:

  • New load balance policies that offer multiple active paths to a LUN (also known as active/active policies). The new policies are: Round Robin, which uses all optimized paths, and Round Robin with Subset, which enables you to specify the combination of active and passive paths used.
    The Round Robin and Round Robin with Subset load balance policies work only with storage systems running Data ONTAP 7.2.2 and higher that use the single_image cfmode setting.
  • Support for Microsoft clusters (also known as MSCS) on Windows 2000 Server. This configuration supports only the active/passive Auto Assigned load balance policy.
  • Coexistence with the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 2.03 and higher on the same Windows host. You cannot, however, access the same LUN using both iSCSI and FCP.

Download: NetApp on the Web (NOW, requires license key)