Re: SAN evaluation
From: Greg Rahn <greg_at_structureddata.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:11:30 -0700
Message-ID: <a9c093440807091111i5894ee19tbf34fa61873d4c81@mail.gmail.com>
> I would definitely put a vote in for NetApp - lots of flexibility, good
> performance, multiprotocol, outstanding snapshot capability.
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:11:30 -0700
Message-ID: <a9c093440807091111i5894ee19tbf34fa61873d4c81@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:
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> I would definitely put a vote in for NetApp - lots of flexibility, good
> performance, multiprotocol, outstanding snapshot capability.
For OLTP workloads, I concur. For DSS/Data Warehousing, they are at the bottom of my list.
For DSS (high IO bandwidth workloads) I think the mid-range storage is the best offering today. EMC CLARiiON CX3 and Sun StorageTek 6140 make my short list. In DSS it is better to have multiple arrays with a smaller number of drives in each, than to have a big array with a large number of drives. This is because the array head becomes the bottleneck well before you fill up the cabinet - so why pay for space to put drives when you can't get any more read throughput off of them (unless you are looking for a storage only solution vs. performance)
-- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Wed Jul 09 2008 - 13:11:30 CDT