Old spaghettis with a lovely sauce

ok, let's face it, Netapp boxes are ugly: spaghettis, daisy chain connections, 32bits snmp..yuk

but Ontap is really great, no wonder why some companies want to copy it using commodity hardware/OS (check nexenta or opensolaris with Fishworks project)..OnTap is a success and by far.
I really appreciate how easy it is to configure (once you managed to untangle cabling):

• create a trunk (called vif) of four Gigabit Ethernet links is very easy and it works
• clustering is straitghforward...and it works
• GUI interface allows to do 99% of the tasks (ok the interface is ungly..no ajax or anything dynamic)
• snapshot, ndmp backup, snapmirror works first time
• netapp simulator is great as it helps testing configurations
  

so, although spaghettis are old..the sauce is really good!