Kathy,
Monday, September 24, 2001, 5:07:28 PM, you wrote:
K> Has anyone used Network Appliance?
K> Any options good/bad appreciated as it applies to Unix (Solaris and
K> HP) and Oracle 8.1.6 and above.
K> Going to a dog and pony show by them tomorrow.
Our databases are running on NetApp 720's and we've had no problems
with 7.2.2, 7.3.4 and 8.0.5 databases. I know of no reason to suspect
any difference with 8.1.x databases. Our servers are Solaris 2.7 and
we operate in an environment that is about 70% transaction processing
30% decision support.
We currently operate with 3 100BaseT connections on each server and
NetApp, 1 for general LAN access and two dedicated just to the NFS
mounts from server to NetApp. We saw good speed improvements over f/w
scsi drives directly attached. The WAFL file layout gives nice write
performance.
We use the NetApps in a very vanilla configuration and only for Oracle
datafiles. We don't use their backups, quotas, etc.
We love the snapshots -- it's like having a 20 way mirroring system
that can be broken at any point. The snaprestore would be cool for rapid
testing of different configurations, but another part of the budget
got that cash.
-rje
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