RE: Network Appliance and Oracle -- anyone using it?

We used Network Appliance's network attached storage devices at a goverment defense base I was subcontracting at a few years ago. It was connect via gigabit ethernet connections to multiple machines.  

It was used for datafiles and flat files. We threw massive amounts of transactions as well as flat file data at this thing.  

No matter how hard we tried, we
could not max out the i/o channel. The limiting factor was always the server speed, not the storage speed.  

These things were FAST!  

I left before we could do much of the failover or fault tolerance testing.

Matt Adams - GE Appliances - matt.adams_at_appl.ge.com <Discussing an image of a black rectangle silhouetted against the Martian landscape> "That is the top of the calibration target, that is _not_ in fact

a monolith."
- NASA TV commentator, 7/5/97  

-----Original Message-----
From: Weaver, Walt [mailto:wweaver_at_rightnowtech.com] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Network Appliance and Oracle -- anyone using it?

Is anyone using, or has anyone used, Oracle running on a Network Appliance?  

Evidently Network Appliance is certified by Oracle to run NFS-mounted datafiles, redo logs, etc. on their filers (Network Appliance Servers) and have a number of failover, backup, and clustering solutions. They are inexpensive compared to the solution handed to us by EMC, so we're taking a close look at what Network Appliance has to offer. We're currently using'em as our NFS file servers only.  

Any adulations, pot shots, or snide remarks will be welcomed warmly.  

Thanks, Received on Thu Aug 31 2000 - 09:38:09 CDT