RE: comparison HP-san vs netapp

[Matthew Zito]

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Depending on the number of hosts on your theoretical SAN, Netapp will make management much much easier.  And like Dick says, have at least two gigabit cards in your hosts that are dedicated for your NFS throughput and dual attachments in the 825 and set up VIF on the filer.  In the same way you isolate your SAN traffic onto a dedicated link, you need to isolate your NFS traffic.   Thinking long-term, Netapp is at the forefront of iSCSI and DAFS - protocols that may or may not be successful long-term in the market (though I think they will), but in a few years you will have an easier upgrade path to take advantage of these when you decide you're ready to.   Thanks, Matt   -- Matthew Zito GridApp Systems Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 646-220-3551 Phone: 212-358-8211 x 359 http://www.gridapp.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: comparison HP-san vs netapp Jeroen,       NetApp depends on TCP/IP to use their products.  Now that's NOT a bad thing, but you need to isolate the file traffic from your general network.  With a SAN your using normal disk io channels into the switch, which effectively isolates file activity from the network.  It's your choice, but having to use NFS for everything can become one heck of a bottleneck.   Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Jeroen van Sluisdam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: comparison HP-san vs netapp   Hi,   I need urgently a qualitative comparison between an SAN (based on eva3000) and netapp F825 environment concerning oracle. We have been tallking to suppliers now for weeks and suddenly a manager comes up with a netapps alternative and we have a deadline to decide already weeks ago. Anybody with real good links or shortlist of conclusions, criteria on this?   Thnx in advance,   Jeroen