Re: Whats better: several narrow or one wide

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Richard L. Rhodes wrote:

1. In setting up a NetApp, is it better to use one big/wide

connection as opposed to a bunch of narrow connections []. (Note that for this discussion I'm ignoring the redundancy in a etherchannel.)

This depends on the

2. On a Unix system that will be doing heavy NFS work to a NetApp,

is it better to use separate mounts on separate but smaller ethernet connections (100mbps ethernet), or, run all mounts through one wide ethernet connection (gigabit ethernet)?

Specifically, I'm going to be setting up an Oracle DB on a NetApp. I'm looking at whether I would be better off using multiple 100mbps ethernets or one gigabit ethernet connection.

Thanks in advance for all opinions!!!!!!!!!

rick

Richard L. Rhodes e: rhodesr@firstenergycorp.com Ohio Edison Co. p: 330-384-4904 f: 330-384-2514