I have a couple of questions regarding CIFS and HTTP performance on NAC filers. Appreciate any answers regarding these.
In reviewing the CIFs performance white paper on the NAC website (http://www.netapp.com/technology/level3/3015.html), I'm unclear on what type of NetBench test is being run. Specifically, I'm not sure if the paper describes NetBench Disk Mix or Random Read/Write tests. I'd thought that the graphs pertained to the Disk Mix test but block size variation test (section 3.1 in above paper) made me think that perhaps Random Read/Write test was being described (Disk Mix does not allow the I/O block size to be varied? If the Read/Write test is being used, I would be very interested in knowing the file sizes that are being used in these tests.
Second, I'm wondering if there is any info or experiences regarding how many http op/s can a Netapp Web filer support?
Thanks!
Aamer
a.latif@ieee.org