> > of course, you can't really use a netapp filer for a database and > > expect any sort of reasonable performance. but they make one hell of > > a good fileserver. i love 'em. can you tell? > > Actually, Oracle has officially endorsed using Netapp Filers with Oracle > 9i, and both of them seem to claim that this is a direction that they want > to encourage the user base to go in, because to the way that the snap > technology can simplify hot backups on large databases. Who would have > thunk it?
wow, that's amazing, andy. is there a new netapp product that's more in line with emc's offerings, or are they talking about using network attached storage? i haven't done the math, but i can't imagine that any nfs version over any network medium can even begin to approach the performance of raw disk access over disparate HBAs... /chris --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
