Hi John & Adam,
Thanks very much for the tidbits and assistance.
I understand pretty much about what you mean on support/upgrade, that is why we need to know the status and the options that we have for our issue.
I already initiated contact w/ support and I was informed that the appliance was owned/licensed by someone else and their agreement has already expired. That is why i raised this inquiry in the first place beacuse they (support) just stop there.
We need to know what we really have (previous licenses, agreement, etc) and what we can do for these machines at the moment.
As I have mentioned earlier, I have my rerasons to believed that these machines were never used here and was just sitting in one place.
Like for example, as what I previously provided thru the output file, it suggested that an NFS License is availabe or was pushed on the machine. And if my understanding is correct that NFS setup or license is for UNIX based clients, then obviously as far as this organization is concern it was never used, becuase this is a 95 to 99 percent windows environment......maybe even 100% coz I haven't done a full assessment yet.
Anyways, ill be looking forward and be able to talk to the right channel and hope they can help us iron this thing out.
Oh by the way, I forgot to mention that this is (or I am are here in) Afghanistan, so there's no other way but to contact directly the vendor. I have no idea if there exist a Net App partner nearby.
Many thanks once again for all the assistance that you have extended.
All the best,
El