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I've been speaking to Veritas people about this lately.
They don't like NetApp because it is difficult to backup.
Veritas likes to have some hooks into the Filesytem, and apparently this isn't easy to do with WAFL for some reason. ( WAFL is the NetApp Filesystem )
Veritas doesn't sell hardware, so they don't have any $$ incentive for preferring one over the other.
They do on the other hand find SAN's very attractive. There's a lot of capabililty in a SAN for HA and management that is lacking in NetApp.
You might try talking to your local Veritas Sales and Support critters, they always like to get phone calls. :)
Jared
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Subject: Oracle and NAS storage systems
Folks,
I've been asked to validate/invalidate a contention made by two
storage
vendors.
NetAppliance has stated that you can use a netapp filer with Oracle
for
datafiles, although their configuration looks more like a DAS(direct
attached
storage) configuration using 10baseT cables vs. SCSI cables. Of course
their
real claim to fame here is Oracle's endorsement.
EMC on the other hand has stated that using a NAS, in the traditional
mode,
for Oracle datafiles is at best risky. And although their product can
support
it, they do not recommend doing so for several of the reasons that I've
held out
are pertinent.
Therefore, is there anyone out their using a NAS to store datafiles?
If so,
what does the configuration (server to NAS) look like?
Dick Goulet
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