You can't 'configure' engines and suspensions very easily, the only variables you have there are pretty much the gas you put it in and the oil you use. And how much you weigh. ;-)

With Storage devices, servers, and other IT stuff, there are so many ways to use it and so many configurations that it doesn't make sense to publish benchmarks because they won't even come close to representing a real-world experience. I have never put together a Netapp solution that max'd out the configuration specs, and never had a design requirement to do so. IMHO, your performance design should first look at IOPS, put in enough spindles for that, and then see which Netapp model fits that design given configurability and memory. It's the feature set that wins every time, theoretical performance differences should not be the major decision factor, as long as there isn't a specific documented need to hit a performance number.

From: Milazzo Giacomo [mailto:G.Milazzo@sinergy.it] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:21 AM To: Uddhav Regmi; Glenn Walker; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: R: Where to get more tech specs?

And last, since years and years there's always been "secrets" and "nda" on detailed tech specs of computers, appliances or, generally, IT relatad hardware!...

Could this be the proof that IT is not science? J

After all when I compare two cars I can have exact data from the two vendors... ;-)

Da: Uddhav Regmi [mailto:uddhav.regmi@worldnet.att.net] Inviato: venerdì 6 giugno 2008 15.12 A: 'Glenn Walker'; Milazzo Giacomo; toasters@mathworks.com Oggetto: RE: Where to get more tech specs?

Performance is not something which cannot be compared vis-a-vis with other platform/hardware.....

In real life there could be so many variables ........

OnTAP tuning and hardwares can play the role

Switching, paths , routing.....can play the role

then finally your front end Server Platform, hardware and application can play the role......

All these are very tightly related.....

-uddhav

From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Walker Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 8:46 AM To: Milazzo Giacomo; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Where to get more tech specs?

You could look at specfs numbers (there's an organization that publishes this), and you can get the docs you've already seen from your sales team. It's not something that is typically given to customers. Check with your sales team (Channel perhaps?).

Glenn

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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Milazzo Giacomo Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 3:02 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Where to get more tech specs?

Hi all

Long times ago I was able to obtain from some NetApp guys documentation that regarded detailed tech specs of filer appliances with data on performances such us iops, throughput and so on with also comparison between models both from NetApp and competitor too. The data regarded NAS ans SAN (iSCSI and FCP) aspects.

Do you know if there are available docs on new filers?

Sometime it happens that customers ask us for comparison charts (i.e. now we could need data for IBM DS8000 storage and FAS3xxx and/or 6xxx filers regarding SAN FCP performances)

regards