Yael Hellmann wrote:
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.
We have networked configurations of filers and workstations that outperforms the onboard SCSI speeds of the workstations. It depends on what your local storage bus is, what your network is, what your application is, what your average filesize is, etc, etc, etc.
If someone gives you a blanket statement that it's not possible, they don't know what they are talking about. Of course it's possible. If it's the best solution for your application requires some serious analysis.
Graham