I’ve recently bumped into a couple painful limits of Data ONTAP. The first is the widely-known 16TB limit on aggregate size – with each day, it’s increasingly stunning to me that they haven’t increased this yet: 16TB is big, but it just isn’t that big any more. Just as painful is the much less discussed limits on A-SIS volume size – for the 2020 we just purchased, it’s 0.5TB, which caught us by surprise. Our reseller – who forgot to mention the A-SIS limit to us before we purchased the filer – claims that this limit will be at least doubled in ONTAP 7.3; 1TB is still lame.
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