So be worth speaking to your local NetApp partner about helping you to do that, the 270 is maybe not the best way of showing what the NetApp filer can do, as the 270 is long since dead!
Although it does run OnTap 7.3.3
Have you tried System Manager 1.1 or even 2.0 if you want to try the beta version of that, as really that is the way that NetApp will manage their filers going forward, filerview will be retired in the not too distant future I would suggest.
System Manager doesn’t rely on the filerview GUI, so maybe that could fix your problem, strictly speaking doesn’t support the 270, but can be “made” to work…
Not sure if that helps, but certainly rather than worry about filverview, see if you can get System Manager up and running and that may give you a better idea of NetApp functionality.
R
Paul.