> I'd appreciate if anyone could share your experience
> in configuring things on the filer for optimal
> performance or any recomendataion that i should be
> aware of.
Netapps are great things. Just beware that you'll be using NFS, and NFS
drivers on many operating systems have been known to be buggy in some
way or another which may cause dataloss or corruption during extreme
conditions (power failure, network interruption, etc.)
If you can configure it as a SAN, you may find it works out better.