RE: netapp and asm

From: CRISLER, JON A <JC1706_at_att.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 00:17:01 +0000
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Like other companies, NetApp offers a wide range of products, including NFS, SAN etc. On the very backend, you can see even on the SAN stuff that NetApp has its roots in NFS. That said, ASM for disk files works fine on NetApp. You did not mention how your going to connect to the NetApp frame- SAN or Ethernet - NFS ?

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Stefano Cislaghi Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:15 AM
To: Randy.Steiner_at_nyct.com
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: netapp and asm

I worked in company used to use only NetApp product. My personal experience, after the management of 100+ databases (RAC and not) is: *avoid to use netapp*

First, Netapp is not a SAN but a NAS, this basically means that is good only for NFS/CIFS.
If you create a LUN you simply create a raw file on the WAFL (the filesystem of netapp) and export it to ASM.

Performance on netapp is really questionable. Of course benchmarks show that netapp is really performant but in fact I've never seen this performance. Also we tricked many times with netapp labs but never reached a good performance.

Ste

On 28 November 2011 18:36, Steiner, Randy <Randy.Steiner_at_nyct.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am migrating a 10g data warehouse to new blade servers with netapp
> storage.  The netapp best practice guide suggests using asm for only the
> cluster files, but Oracle says I should be using asm for datafiles and
> log files.   Is anyone using NetApp with or without asm that could offer
> a suggestion?
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> Thanks
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> Randy
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