Re: [PERFORM] Storage Options

2006-08-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:50:51PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: the NetApp over NFS, so I am not sure what performance to expect. Any suggestions about using network storage like this for the database? Don't. Unless you're using a very small (toy-scale) database, the netapp storage is way too expe

[PERFORM] Storage Options

2006-08-21 Thread Jeff Davis
I am trying to decide what kind of storage options to use for a pair of good database servers, a primary and a read-only that can be a failover. Here is what I'm thinking so far: (1) We have a nice NetApp that can do iSCSI. It has a large (multi-GB) battery-backed cache so it could potentially per