Re: Netapp filer....Are they worth it????

> We have a netapp filer set up for our 3node RAC db. We've found the
> NetApp filer to be our main bottleneck. Network Appliance has
> recommended we turn off asynch i/o. This is a step backwards in my
> opinion.
>
> Maybe we should check out the competition (EMC)!!!!!
>
> What do you netapp folks think?

I wouldn't use NetApp for an Oracle database. I've only heard one guy say that it worked great. The only other times I heard that it worked great was in advertisements from NetApp. Everyone else I've ever heard talk about it had basically said it sucked for one of two reasons:

1. Poor performance
2. Network glitches killed the database since it find the database datafiles.

HTH,
Brian

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