Re: Using NAS EVA 8000

In article <1139330977.823137.293330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Papa
Piquillo wrote:
Hello:
My company has decided to use an EVA 8000 unit as centralized storage.
They are planning to use it for all kind of services since file server,
e-mail, web and also for our management database systems.
I work with the management databases (Oracle and HP-UX) and i desagree
with this decision.
My obvious first objection is that data transfer ratio for the
management database system will be affected by the demand of the other
services in the storage system.
The EVA 8000 has a large data transfer ratio but services like FTP,
e-mail, web ... have an I/O demand that you can plan previously.
I have always worked with local storage and i have no experience with
NAS. Does anybody know if it is possible to reserve some data transfer
ratio for a host?
Thanks in advance for your comments.

I think that a bigger issue will be performance of NAS disk vs local disk. The
NAS access is basically NFS, and I would be concerned about DB performance on
NFS mounted filesystems...

Kevin

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