Hi all

I've recently moved jobs, and one of my new projects is being involved in a major email overhaul for my new employer. We're currently evaluating a whole heap of different aspects (desktop client, web client, clients for unsupported operating systems, diary/calendar, server software etc etc), two of which are Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS) and MS Exchange. Both of these require block-level access to disk resources, whether direct attach, across a network using iSCSI, or directly into an FC SAN.

Does anyone on the list have any stories - good, bad, or indifferent - about running the above pieces of software using a filer backend, generally over iSCSI *or* by breaking into the FC backend and hooking the filer into a SAN environment? If you do, I'd be pleased to hear them - offlist if necessary. If you're running either of them with a SAN backend which isn't NetApp, that's just as useful a data point.

There's a lot of views being expressed in my direction at present which appear to be without foundation, so I'm very interested in any "real world" tales :)

Thanks

Graeme