RE: netapps experience and performance tool

From: Nick Tilbury _at_ Northampton <_at_>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:08:46 -0000
Message-ID: <152194D388911C4B8D6368EC6511B9F602E8198F@nthex55.eng.vartec.com>

I believe Oracle and Netapps are very much 'in-bed-together' now days and all Oracle in-house platforms
are now hosted by Netapps kit (www.netapp.com)

I have had some seriously bad experiences with write performance on NAS units but that was a few years ago
and it was on an extremely cheap bit of kit.

My current thinking is there is a place for NAS but unless it's top of the line kit it's place is not
hosting an OLTP database.

We currently use a NAS unit for DEV/TEST databases and are in the process of implementing a disk-staging
procedure for backups using an ATA Beast NAS.

Nick

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of steve noyle Sent: 19 November 2004 15:38
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: netapps experience and performance tool

hi,
Does anyone have any experience to share using oracle on netapps? We will be building a data warehouse which is going to be pretty write intensive. People has mixed opinions about the performance of running oracle on netapps. I'm not sure how much NAS solutions has changed over the last few yrs. Is this still somewhat of an issue?

Also, anyone has any idea how one would obtain disk I/O statistics on Netapps? We will be running Solaris 8/netapps. does sar -d provides an accurate statistics of what's going on in Netapps. What netapps tools are available to get those information?

thanks in advance.

steve

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