CentOS - Mar 2007 - Oracle on NetApp

Hello,

  Anyone using or tested Oracle (OLTP load) on NetApp? Connected via Fibre 
Channel not NFS.

  Performance is good or should we better stay with "classic" SAN
storage
like HP EVA or similar boxes from EMC or Hitachi?

  In EMC test papers NetApp does not look good. In NetApp papers - vice 
versa. :) So I'm somewhat confused.

  I remember someone in this list saying that NetApp for databases gives 
poor performance. But I cannot find that post now.

  Thanks,

  Mindaugas

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Mindaugas wrote:
> Anyone using or tested Oracle (OLTP load) on NetApp? Connected via 
> Fibre Channel not NFS.
I'm not a DBA, but... I've worked in Oracle/NetApp/NFS environments 
(not Fibre Channel), and the performance was fine.

NetApps have great uptimes, and the service is such that NetApp will 
sometimes deliver to your desk a replacement for a dying disk before 
you knew it was throwing errors. :-)

I'll be happy to put you in off-list contact with the admin who 
actually set up and maintained the system in question.

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