Re: Oracle on NetApp

I've seen very few problems with them, but I'd do some testing before I put
an OLTP DB on it.  Keep in mind that you need some CPU overhead for any high
I/O app with network based storage.  If this is an issue, Netapp has serve
block-based storage.

The real big advantage I see with Netapp over traditional block-based
storage is that it's still on the WAFL filesystem (UFS, VXFS, NTFS formatted
over that).  The WAFL filesystem means that you can still do all the cool
replication that Netapp has to offer.

Netapp has a great relationship with Oracle.  They say Oracle's own
databases run on Netapp HW.

--paul

"Faeandar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Anyone surfing this group doing this?  If so what do you think about
> it?  I know of several companies that do and have had extensive
> conversation with one of the admins doing this.
>
> I think it's a good idea if you can build in the availability
> initially.  OnTap software has huge advantages for databases but the
> filer hardware can be less than enterprise robustness sometimes.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ~F