RE: Anybody using Network Appliance Storage boxes with Oracle?

From: Weaver, Walt <wweaver_at_rightnow.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:34:51 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002D32DF.20010321073553@fatcity.com>

We use NetApp for our NFS file servers and they are very fast and reliable. The NetApp sales 'droid also tried to sell us their Oracle solution, as they are one of the few vendors that is certified by Oracle to run the RDBMS over NFS. EMC is also certified by Oracle to run on NFS (or so they told me) but their tech guys strongly recommended against doing so due to performance considerations.

I've also read and/or heard that performance can be a problem on NetApp. I believe there was a related thread on this list a few months ago.

We're going with EMC. Dick Goulet just posted, stating that he's going to start using NetApp. It'll be interesting to see how it works.

--Walt Weaver

Bozeman, Montana, USA

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Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:06 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I'll try and share some of what I've been told by the NetApp reps. This info is a year old. The NetApp box itself is a very trimmed down version of BSD that handles only the networking and disk i/o stuff. Specifically compiled to work with their controllers. It talks to both NFS and NT natively (their own addition). The drives are managed in a specially tuned RAID3 configuration. They say that the disk assignment stuff is not critical because of their caching (sort of the same argument that EMC uses). The NetApp box does a write confirmation over NFS as soon as the cache is updated (???) or something like that. This supposedly is how it can interact with Oracle and store datafiles on an NFS mount. I certainly may be wrong on some of this. Its been a while since I've wandered into that territory.

Rodd Holman

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Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:31 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi there!

Is anybody out there running Oracle on NetApp Storage Networking box?

I was told by some NetApp guys that using their boxes we don't have to worry about distributing datafiles, RBS etc. across the disks because the NetApp OS takes care of all that.

Any comments?

Thanks,
Helmut

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