From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 11 9:35:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from relay04.indigo.ie (relay04.indigo.ie [194.125.133.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A113414E5D for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judgea@indigo.ie) Received: (qmail 28630 messnum 46666 invoked from network[194.125.133.235/relay-mgr.indigo.ie]); 11 Oct 1999 16:35:43 -0000 Received: from relay-mgr.indigo.ie (HELO indigo.ie) (194.125.133.235) by relay04.indigo.ie (qp 28630) with SMTP; 11 Oct 1999 16:35:43 -0000 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetApp servers In-reply-to: Message from Barrett Richardson dated Friday at 11:59. From: Alan Judge Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:35:43 +0100 Message-Id: <19991011163545.A113414E5D@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Barrett> Does the NetApp have tremendous benefits over building your Barrett> own mongo NFS server with a super duper RAID controller? For us, yes, but YMMV. It depends a lot on what you are doing and what you want. Netapp boxes have good scalable performance, support online growable file systems, easy upgrades, hot swap, snapshots and safe live backups, clustering and failover, fast reboots, NVRAM backup to avoid powerfail loss, and other stuff that isn't always easily supported on a mongo FreeBSD NFS server. But you pay for what you get, and vice versa. I'd recommend trying one out and seeing if it suits your application. NetApp, at least over here, are quite willing to loan you a box to see if they can convince you to buy one. -- Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message