Re: RAC over NFS

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:11:08 -0800
Message-ID: <1077235827.101740@yasure>

Hans Forbrich wrote:

> 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

So you think Larry is doing what with his company? Putting it at risk?

I don't think so. NFS is good enough for anything but perhaps the most mission critical line-of-business purposes and even then I could argue that with the built-in recovery options even then well worth the risk.

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