Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:35:43 +0100 From: Alan Judge <Alan.Judge@indigo.ie> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetApp servers Message-ID: <19991011163545.A113414E5D@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Barrett Richardson dated Friday at 11:59.
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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
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