You can’t ‘configure’ engines
and suspensions very easily, the only variables you have there are pretty much
the gas you put it in and the oil you use. And how much you weigh. ;-)
With Storage devices, servers,
and other IT stuff, there are so many ways to use it and so many configurations
that it doesn’t make sense to publish benchmarks because they won’t even come
close to representing a real-world experience. I have never put together a
Netapp solution that max’d out the configuration specs, and never had a design
requirement to do so. IMHO, your performance design should first look at IOPS,
put in enough spindles for that, and then see which Netapp model fits that
design given configurability and memory. It’s the feature set that wins every
time, theoretical performance differences should not be the major decision
factor, as long as there isn’t a specific documented need to hit a performance number.
From: Milazzo Giacomo
[mailto:G.Milazzo@sinergy.it]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:21 AM
To: Uddhav Regmi; Glenn Walker; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: R: Where to get more tech specs?
And last, since years and years there’s always
been “secrets” and “nda” on detailed tech specs of computers, appliances or,
generally, IT relatad hardware!...
Could this be the proof that IT is not
science? J
After all when I compare two cars I can have
exact data from the two vendors… ;-)
Da: Uddhav Regmi
[mailto:uddhav.regmi@worldnet.att.net]
Inviato: venerd́ 6 giugno 2008 15.12
A: 'Glenn Walker'; Milazzo Giacomo; toasters@mathworks.com
Oggetto: RE: Where to get more tech specs?
Performance is not something
which cannot be compared vis-a-vis with other platform/hardware.....
In real life there could be so
many variables ........
OnTAP tuning and hardwares can
play the role
Switching, paths ,
routing.....can play the role
then finally your front end
Server Platform, hardware and application can play the role......
All these are very tightly
related.....
-uddhav
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
[mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Walker
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 8:46 AM
To: Milazzo Giacomo; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Where to get more tech specs?
You could look at specfs numbers (there’s an organization that
publishes this), and you can get the docs you’ve already seen from your sales
team. It’s not something that is typically given to customers.
Check with your sales team (Channel perhaps?).
Glenn
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]
On Behalf Of Milazzo Giacomo
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 3:02 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Where to get more tech specs?
Hi all
Long times ago I was able to obtain from some
NetApp guys documentation that regarded detailed tech specs of filer appliances
with data on performances such us iops, throughput and so on with also
comparison between models both from NetApp and competitor too. The data
regarded NAS ans SAN (iSCSI and FCP) aspects.
Do you know if there are available docs on new
filers?
Sometime it happens that customers ask us for
comparison charts (i.e. now we could need data for IBM DS8000 storage and
FAS3xxx and/or 6xxx filers regarding SAN FCP performances)
regards