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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