You faithful readers of this blog know my position on NAS for Oracle. Clustered Storage is getting hot and HP has just stepped up to the plate by acquiring PolyServe. Here is a link to HP’s website with details:
HP To Acquire PolyServe
As you regular readers can imagine, my blogging will certainly sound a lot different [...]
In my last blog entry about Direct I/O, I covered the topic of what Direct I/O can mean beyond normal Oracle database files. A reader followed up with a comment based on his experience with Direct I/O via Solaris –forcedirectio mount option:
I’ve noticed that on Solaris filesystems with forcedirectio , a “compress” becomes [...]
Density is Increasing, But Certainly Not That Cheap
Netapp’s SEC 10-Q form for their quarter ending in October 2006 has a very interesting prediction. I was reading this post on StorageMojo about Isilon and saw this quote from the SEC form (emphasis added by me):
According to International Data Corporation’s (IDC’s) Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2006-2010 Forecast [...]
One of my favorite blogs, StorageMojo.com, is covering Isilon and Clustered Storage here. The debate is heating up because there are some folks that think NetApp OnTap GX is clustered storage. I have blogged before about how a clustered namespace is not clustered storage such as:
NetApp’s OnTap GX for Oracle. Clustered Name Space.
And other articles [...]
I see that HP is starting a pre-packaged Clustered NFS offering combining the customer’s choice of EVA and PolyServe. According to this Computer Business Review article:
[…]Hewlett-Packard Co has launched pre-packaged versions of its PolyServe-powered clustered NAS
Well, yes, I work for PolyServe so I like that, but I think you can tell by my blogging [...]