Re: RAC over NFS

From: Hans Forbrich <hforbric_at_yahoo.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:46:27 GMT
Message-ID: <4033A4F3.3A0C9118@yahoo.net>

Daniel Morgan wrote:
>
> Sorry to disagree gentlemen. But a benchmark done at Oracle Corp.
> where it is being used for production showed only a minor difference
> between the best of breed Hitachi SAN and the NetApp NAS.
>
> Something like 12 minutes out of 18 hours of hard processing.
>
> You may be thinking of older NetApp technology.
>

Ack. I was thinking about a customer several moons ago who looked at an old version of Net App back when "SAN was good/NAS was bad". From what I've read the work they [Net App] put into their product, including 'guaranteed writes over NFS', paid off.

That said - I believe regular NFS is still not a viable solution except possibly in a lab environment.

/Hans Received on Wed Feb 18 2004 - 11:46:27 CST