I have TAKEN THE PLUNGE and using it for PRODUCTION... ENRON used for all their production databases (100+ ) and they were several hundred gig.
We are using a special Disaster recovery product of Netapps as well. Brian -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Daniel That was close to my experience. Very useful for test databases where throughput isn't that important. We find it very useful to clone 100-gig production databases so the users have a complete data set to perform staging tests. The NetApp provides a lot of inexpensive storage. But I found that I had to be careful to avoid overloading the connection. For example, if I am building indexes it is useful to move the table to attached disk and then build the index on the NetApp to reduce bidirectional traffic. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 10:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We use the net apps for a number of instances as well. I'm would not recommend them for an IO intensive application. If you are using a 100 Mb connection your max aggregate throughput will be about 6MB per second, which is very bad. Try performing backups over this. If you do use them, gigabit connections are mandatory. The net app docs walk you through the recommended setup (hard upd mount points with a set of mirrored red logs local). Regards, -Daniel -- Daniel Harron Database Management IPsoft, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ip-soft.net/ Phone: 888.IPSOFT8 Fax: 801.681.7664 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Daniel Harron INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Spears, Brian INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
