Mike: You can also upgrade to the newer quad ethernet card, a single port is about a 1.5x speed increase, and a four port VIF will bump you about 1.7x performance. That should help a lot of your bottleneck issues.

Sean has some data I sent him..that you can grab.

Sorry..but when I bought the 760's you have there, thats the only card they offered.

-----Original Message----- From: Michael S. Keller [mailto:mkeller@mail.wcg.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 2:26 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: nas storage

Lewis,

Necessary to yell?

I use what I received. I am required to stick with it for a while yet.

Solaris 2.6 run against F760s with ONTAP 5.3.4 performs more slowly local storage would. If you can refute this, then tell me how to fix my installation.

I _must_ run NFSv2 to get decent performance, and ONTAP limits NFSv2 packets to 8K. So I must suffer with small transfers. I don't yet have enough storage on these filers to build another test system with Solaris 7 that can handle the load. I'm stuck in the middle without resources to test adequately that Solaris 7 would handle the load better.

You make a blanket statement without supporting facts.

"Kirschner, Lewis" wrote:

ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE DESPITE WHAT THE GENTLEMAN SAYS BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE'VE GOT SEVERAL THOUSAND CUSTOMER WHO WILL TELL YOU OTHERWISE!!!

-----Original Message----- From: Yael Hellmann [mailto:yael_hellmann@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 2:59 PM To: michael.alvarado@netapp.com; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: nas storage

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?