Re: Oracle on Network Appliance's Netapp Filer

Gigabit switched is essential if you are going to run datafiles on a remote Filer.

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:23:56 -0700, fro_doe <fro_doeNOfrSPAM_at_hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:

>I attended a similar presentation and agree that it is a
>rather impressive storage solution. We ran some informal tests
>and everything worked as advertised. To get some serious
>performance out of it, you'll need at least 100Mb ethernet,
>preferably Gigabit ethernet connecting the database server to the
>Filer. The tests we ran, we maxed out the 100Mb segment we were
>on before reaching the I/O capabilities of the Filer. The
>snapshot feature is particularly cool!
>
>Doug.
>
>lasalleg_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>>We currently run Oracle 7.3.4 on HP-UX 10.20 and Oracle8 on NT.
>>We recently had a presentation from Network Appliance on their
 Network-
>>Attached-Storage (NAS)product called the NetApp Filer. I
 previously had
>>reservations about using a mission critical system with an NFS
 server,
>>but the presentation and literature was most impressive. Have
 any of
>>you had any experience with it and would you recommend it? It
 would
>>make a great storage platform for us it delivers as advertised.
 They
>>are on the OCSP(Oracle Storage Compatibility Program)Member
 List. The
>>product's URL is http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>George
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>Before you buy.
>>
>>
>
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Received on Sat Jun 24 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT