My group's looking to rollout a ClearCase implementation soon. We're a heavy NetApp house and most obviously want to use our filers in any implementation we come up with. However, I'm getting mixed stories as to the roll my filers can play in with ClearCase.

On one hand I have my Sun sales guy telling me all about Sun's drive solutions and how the filer "simply won't cut it". He's convinced that ClearCase won't work on an NFS box all together.

On the other hand I have confusion - PureAtria seems to be mixed if they can or can't (the instructor during the training class I was at had never heard of NetApp). NetApp, however, says their box does work and says that PureAtria uses filers inhouse too.

If I've gathered my facts correctly, three out of the four ClearCase pools can sit on a filer, with the db part remaining on local disk. It's unclear to me how large the db can get, so I'm not sure how much local disk space I truely need.

Does anyone have any metrics I can use? Local disk size per view, per vob? What type of setups have you deployed, using the filer and ClearCase? What class of hardware are you using for how many users?

Any help you can give me is great. Thanks.

- matthew

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