Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!in.100proofnews.com!tdsnet-transit!newspeer.tds.net!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Netapp filer....Are they worth it???? Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:02:38 -0800 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1078336924.285485@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <56f4f26c.0403021220.3f581670@posting.google.com> <40450865.BA824E44@remove_spam.peasland.com> <1078272779.403460@yasure> <4045E961.768A87D2@remove_spam.peasland.com> In-Reply-To: <4045E961.768A87D2@remove_spam.peasland.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 43 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:256215 Brian Peasland wrote: >>>I wouldn't use NetApp for an Oracle database. I've only heard one guy >>>say that it worked great. >> >>That guy being Tom Kyte? My understanding is that NetApp is running >>asktom.oracle.com and most of Oracle Corporation itself. > > > Nope. Don't remember his name, but it wasn't Tom. > > >>>2. Network glitches killed the database since it find the database >>>datafiles. >> >>Haven't seen this once with the current breed of NetApp hardware. My >>guess is the experience was from some years back. > > > Admittedly, my knowledge of the NetApp hardware is not of the current > offerings. Hopefully they've changed for the better. It sounds like they > have. > > >>Oh ... and unless that 'one guy' is me ... make it two guys. > > > I'll make it two now. > > > Cheers, > Brian NetApp has improved very dramatically in recent years. Very very dramatically. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)