Some applications CAN get you better... especially when dealing with UFS locally vs WAFL remote... Under other situations, (Expecially NEWS) the performance is not on par... but you need A LOT of spindles to handle usenet more so than bus bandwidth, etc...
The Netapps are EXCELLENT in certain areas, and not the BEST solution in others (News being one of them)...the same basically applies to any hardware/software...
-Christopher L. Kotacka
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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