On Jan 30, 2006, at 3:28 PM, genO
wrote:
>
>
> great point...heard something about Oracle
using Netapp over NFS in
> one of
> their hosting centers? not
real sure if I got that right. we don't
> use
>
oracle.
You can generally run Oracle No problem over NFS. However,
generally
you often do get higher performance with
block level access, the
trade off until recently has been management
complexity and systems
scalability
(No Cluster File System.) There is no really good general
rule to
apply to the situation here.
These days customers should be
able to chose a single box that supports
whatever interconnect and data
protocol
they're used to using. IF the DBA's are crusty, old guys
they'll
probably insist on a block level transport.
And Netapp makes a
*great* SAN/NAS combo. The only weaknesses for a
consolidated
Netapp
might be more disk overhead for LUNs, RAID 4 or RAID DP only
(no
legacy raid levels... again something
ancient, haggard and crusty
DBA's insist on...)
In the event that the Netapp NAS/SAN doesn't work for
you, you can
Still use a Vfiler for your NAS needs... :) And if your
salty
DBA finally breaks down and begins to trust modern technology, you
can
migrate the databases to LUN that is being exported
by the
vfiler:)
Regards,
Max
> good question for
your guys tomorrow...
>
> good luck,
>
> g
>
-----Original Message-----
> From: Peter D. Gray [mailto:pdg@uow.edu.au]
> Sent: Monday,
January 30, 2006 6:01 PM
> To: Stewart, John
> Cc:
'toasters@mathworks.com'
> Subject: Re: Replacing our
NetApp
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 02:22:20PM -0800, Max
wrote:
>>>
>>
>> This box is probably something
that Sun put together after the Procom
>> buyout, and I've never been
impressed by most of the Procom kit.
>>
>
> We had no end
of problems with our procoms. We ended up replacing all
> of
> them
with netapps. Never looked back.
>
>
>> Another NAS head
option you may want to consider is a Netapp Vfiler..
>> that way you
can have the best of both worlds.
>>
>> What Model of Sun SAN
are you looking at?
>>
>
> Why do SAN at all? If you have
used NAS with netapp, why on earth
> would you
> move to a SAN? We
run everything on our netapps and could not be
> happier.
>
>
Regards,
> pdg
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