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.
Paul Heinlein wrote:
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.
I've had one experience with Oracle + Netapp and it was positive as well. I will also concur with Paul and say that you do get amazing service by paying an order of magnitude (or more) extra for storage from Netapp. :)
Cheers,
I've had one experience with Oracle + Netapp and it was positive as well. I will also concur with Paul and say that you do get amazing service by paying an order of magnitude (or more) extra for storage from Netapp. :)
I saw a total-cost-of-ownership from our datacenters that was like $40/megabyte for NetApp filers. this was considerably higher than the large scale EMC SAN (which also has proactive service where they show up and swap out failing drives before you even know they are going flakey). FWIW, operations uses the EMC for Oracle, and the NetApp for flat file storage. I'm in development on a different continent, so all this is hearsay, and that number could be way off.
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