When I spoke to some technical Netapp people on their stand at the UKOUG in December 2000 they explained that they are able to gain Oracle certification by the way their filers do 'a write confirmation over NFS' (as you put it), which regular nfs does not do. I know a site that uses two full height rack units full of Netapp stuff (don't recall the model numbers) for IO intensive work but they do not use oracle. They are generally very happy with the performance and snapshot capabilities. Regards, Mike. -----Original Message----- Sent: 21 March 2001 14:06 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'll try and share some of what I've been told by the NetApp reps. This info is a year old. The NetApp box itself is a very trimmed down version of BSD that handles only the networking and disk i/o stuff. Specifically compiled to work with their controllers. It talks to both NFS and NT natively (their own addition). The drives are managed in a specially tuned RAID3 configuration. They say that the disk assignment stuff is not critical because of their caching (sort of the same argument that EMC uses). The NetApp box does a write confirmation over NFS as soon as the cache is updated (???) or something like that. This supposedly is how it can interact with Oracle and store datafiles on an NFS mount. I certainly may be wrong on some of this. Its been a while since I've wandered into that territory. Rodd Holman -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi there! Is anybody out there running Oracle on NetApp Storage Networking box? I was told by some NetApp guys that using their boxes we don't have to worry about distributing datafiles, RBS etc. across the disks because the NetApp OS takes care of all that. Any comments? Thanks, Helmut -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Holman, Rodney INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jenner Mike INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
