Glenn,
Not sure QoS is the right terminology.  QoS implies some kind of service or performance guarantee, even NetApp disavows any guarantees with Flexshare.  But it is cool...
 
regards,
Bill
 


From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of "Glenn Walker" <ggwalker@mindspring.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 5:32 PM
To: "Blake Golliher" <thelastman@gmail.com>
Cc: <markallen@micron.com>; <toasters@mathworks.com>
Subject: RE: Data Ontap 7.2

Blake,

Flexshare - is this the 'guardrail' technology that enables QoS of
particular datasets? Or is that 'future' at the moment?

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Blake Golliher [mailto:thelastman@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 11:46 PM
To: Glenn Walker
Cc: markallen@micron.com; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Data Ontap 7.2

We are testing it as well. FlexShare looks to be some killer
technology we are excited to look at. But the mutliproc changes I
think are key to this release. Which almost makes me want to wait
until 7.2.2 or 7.2.3 before thinking about it seriously. Because if
it's good now, wait until they perfect it!

-Blake

On 8/11/06, Glenn Walker wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Not yet tested, but they did fix CIFS running on only 1 proc at a time
(now
> multithreaded and shouldn't be an issue with competing for resources
from
> WAFL anymore). Looking forward to that, especially with changenotify
and
> other issues that can cause problems on older systems!
>
>
>
> Glenn
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
>
> From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
[mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On
> Behalf Of markallen@micron.com
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 11:43 AM
> To: toasters@mathworks.com
> Subject: Data Ontap 7.2
>
>
>
>
> I noticed that Netapp GA'd 7.2 on the 3rd of August. I did a bug fix
report
> and noticed that a lot of CIFS bugs were fixed between the GD release
7.04
> and 7.2. I also noticed the same thing when I compared 7.1.1 and 7.2.
I've
> also heard that CIFS performs a lot better on multiproc systems with
this
> OS. Has anyone tested this out under a load and does the OS provide
better
> CIFS performance without any reliability side affects or impact to
other
> protocols such as NFS? I have it installed on a test system but I
don't
> really have a load on it yet.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Mark
>

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