22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
8:37 p.m.
Of those who run Oracle on Netapp, how do you feel about it? I recently received an e-mail in which a Sun rep stated they gave up running Oracle on NetApp over a year ago. "Gave up" implies there were issues that were not easily overcome.
According to NetApp, Ontap is "really a database file system". The technical specs on Ontap seem to back this up, but many people shy away from the idea. Granted, most of the people knocking the idea are other storage vendors or VAR's but some concern in the admin community I've spoken with revolve around NetApp being NAS and not DAFS or SAN.
I'm looking for experiences, both positive and negative, from anyone doing this.
Thanks.
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Jeff Kennedy
Unix Administrator
AMCC
jlkennedy@amcc.com