Folks,

Does anyone have experience with running production workloads on FC-based LUNs on NetApp? Am curious to know how performance of hosting virtual machines (including Exchange, database environments) compares to more traditional block-based SANs (EMC, 3Par, Hitachi, etc), since what I’ve read is that NetApp’s LUNs feature still sits on top of WAFL?

We have some native FAS NetApps, along with many N-series rebranded NetApps, but all are run in 7-Mode and using NFS connections.

Also, how do you all implement data tiering in your NetApp environments? We are currently using IBM SAN (Storwize/V7000) and this has tiering capability. We’d consider moving some SAN workloads to NetApp if we could get as good SAN performance and also address the tiering capability.

Thanks,