You are still limitted by the network and netapp will not be able to compete with products which provide direct disk attachment. Products in mind are SANergy and CXFS. Below is a message from a user who supports my assumtion that you cannot get local performance over a network link.
"From: Michael S. Keller [mailto:mkeller@mail.wcg.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 10:56 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: nas storage
I do not get performance on par with my perception of local disk storage. Would you care to elaborate on what you mean by "on par with local disk storage"?
When I run Usenet news spools from Solaris 2.6 on a NetApp filer, I must throttle NFS to get it to work reliably. "
--- "Alvarado, Michael" michael.alvarado@netapp.com wrote:
Network Appliance's current customer experience is that they do get performance on par with local disk storage already.
Our current plans do not include any interoperation with the SANenergy products.
-----Original Message----- From: Yael Hellmann [mailto:yael_hellmann@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 6:02 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: nas storage
I am currently investigating the market for nas storage. What is netapp plans in providing a solution which will deliver local disk performance for nas storage? Does netapp have plans for products with SANergy functionality or performance?
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