Hello

On 14/06/2006 15:01, Johnson, James A wrote:

Does anyone know what limitations the NetApp simulator has? I know it looks and feels like a real filer, but there has to be some limitation, right?

It runs on "generic" hardware so it doesn't offer any of the cache or other hardware tweaks that a real filer does; it isn't as resilient as it's not providing disk management of any sort. Although it simulates a real filer, the underlying performance is only up to that of the "host" system and therefore simply will not compare in terms of throughput. It's only as robust as the "host" system.

I'm sure there are other limitations, but those are the principle ones I've come across in the past - YMMV, of course.

Graeme