Re: Veritas SAN/FS

Posted in 2000

Obnoxio The Clown — Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:53:13 BST — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> > >Angus Couper wrote: > > > > Is there anyone using Veritas's SAN/FS? > > We are soon to do so, and sysadmins are arguing that I can't have RAW >disc > > space (otherwise it invalidated the improvements in administration). > > Is it true that I've look at a 30% decrease in performance? > > Are there any alternatives - that someone has proven?! > > > > To complete the picture, this will be on a Sun E10K running Solaris 2.6 > > I much appreciate your feedback. > >Be strong grasshopper. RAW disk or no server! Yes the performance hit can >be as much as 35% and will certainly be more than 10% EVEN with a 'fast' >filesystem. If the sysadmins are stubborn you be so also and go to the big >guy. There's something about Sun system admins. It's that funny gel in their hair or something. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com