We have to plan this years yearly maintenance for this, normaly done during our low-period (summer break, vacation time) and I'm looking at going straight to Ontap 8.1 if it is released.
I wish to upgrade the aggregates to 64bit inplace as we only have about 25% free space left and I'm hoping that Ontap 8.1 would let us do that.
This would give us compression and this release more space instead of investing into more disk (for a while more or until next budget).
Next maintenance period is during christmas/newyears break when we have low pressure on the system, but by then we will probably be forced to invest into more disk before that.
Is there any kind of indication of when Ontap 8.1 is due? At least what quarter 2011 (if at all during this year)?
