We did some performance testing on HP K class boxes running HP-UX 10.20 and 11.0. We found that the Netapp over Gig-E was on average about 30% faster than the HP Mod-20 disk arrays (AKA CLARiiON 20 slot) configured in RAID 5 for our application queries. We are planning to wait for more testing on Sybase 12.5 to make the move to the filer because the move to 12.5 will be a dump and load of our existing databases anyway.

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Joe Luchtenberg joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com 10/13/00 03:40PM >>>

Is anybody using NetApp filers for backend storage in a high-transaction Sybase app environment? I have a customer considering this configuration and would appreciate any insight/lessons learned from the field. Thanks. Joe

Joe Luchtenberg Dataline, Inc. New number and email, please update: 757.858.0600 858.0606 fax joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com