Rob,
 
I have a customer that is running Oracle on 12 v480's connected to a NearStore R100 and another 4 v480's to a FAS940.  I have a single Gig Card from each server connected to two Cisco 3750 switches with a dual connection on the back-plane.  The NearStore has 2 dual-port gig cards that have been set in a four port multi-vif and the Filer has three quad-port gig cards set into four multi-vif's with a second level multi-vif combining the two of them.
 
It is important to remember that when setting up a vif you'll need to configure etherchannelling on the switches to support it.  Cisco currently only support 16 ports in an etherchannel (just like NetApp) but only eight are active and the remaining are backup.  Cisco will handle all of the load balancing.
 
Bench marks at the customer revealed at 35% increase in performance with the NearStore and 50% increase from the Filer.  Before NetApp they had all A1000 direct SCSI attached to each host.
 
This is more than what yo uare looking at but I hop ethat it shows what the Appliances are capable of handling.  Remember also that 99% of Oracle Corp, runs on NetApp Storage.
 
Good-Luck,
 
Alan

From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Robert Borowicz
Sent: Fri 4/16/2004 4:37 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Private Gig Switch for Oracle mounts

My boss bought two Cisco 3650 Gig switches of which he will expect me to interconnect our Filer ( FAS 940 ), 3 SunFire 880's, 3 Sun E450's and 6 Gateway 975 Twin Xeon SuSe boxes to. The 880's and the SuSe boxes will all run Oracle over the switch back to separate Volumes on the Filer. The filer's Gig card is a "X1025C-D" Gbit, NIC Fiber card. I've asked that we purchase another Gbit card on the Filer so that I can do a failover VIF. I'm concerned about utilization on the Gbit interface on the Filer.
 
Anybody have a similar environment and been there already? I'd like to trade notes if so.
 
Thanks
 
-Rob
 
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