All of our Oracle installations run over NFS. Netapp+NFS+Oracle has been a very reliable and stable solution for us.
Not having to deal with the lun overhead on netapps is also a huge plus (lun space reserve vs wafl).
-- Daniel Leeds Manager, Storage Operations Edmunds.com
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Jason Herring Sent: Thu 9/27/2007 8:43 AM To: Mcdonald, Alex; Doucet, Hugo; jeremy.page@gilbarco.com; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: NFS and VMware
With Oracle bundling an NFS client in their database release there's a statement in itself.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Mcdonald, Alex Sent: Thu 9/27/2007 8:07 AM To: Doucet, Hugo; jeremy.page@gilbarco.com; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: NFS and VMware
Jeremy;
http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2007_09_09_archive.html http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2007_09_09_archive.html (backup & recovery stuff under NFS) and http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2007/09/vmware-over-nfs.html http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2007/09/vmware-over-nfs.html , both from Nick Triantos' blog (a NetApp employee). Quote: "People may find this hard to believe, but the performance over NFS is actually better than FC or iSCSI not only in terms of throughtput but also in terms of latency."
Plus he has another entry http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2007/09/demos-from-vmworld.html that points at a VMware over NFS demo from VMworld.
alex mcdonald | netapp
vm: +44 7795 046686 | em: alexmc@netapp.com |
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From: Doucet, Hugo Sent: 27 September 2007 15:37 To: jeremy.page@gilbarco.com; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: NFS and VMware
Jeremy
I suggest you consult this weeks posts on Dave Hitz blog (NetApp founder) and people's comments.
The blog can be found via a link right pane on www.netapp.com
Hugo (NetApp employee)
-----Original Message----- From: Page, Jeremy jeremy.page@gilbarco.com To: toasters@mathworks.com toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Thu Sep 27 14:26:47 2007 Subject: NFS and VMware
Are any of the toaster folks using NFS for VMware in a production environment? We have about 150 VMs across 12 servers at the moment sitting on an IBM DS4500, but I just got my budget approved to buy a nice 3040 cluster. For ease of backup/restore/DR I really would like to use NFS instead of FCP/iSCSI but I don't know what the performance impact will be. Any comments/experiences?
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