Re: Whats better: several narrow or one wide

From: tkaczma@gryf.net
Date: Fri Jun 04 1999 - 21:23:21 EDT


On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Richard L. Rhodes wrote:

> 1) In setting up a NetApp, is it better to use one big/wide
> connection as opposed to a bunch of
> narrow connections [].
> (Note that for this discussion I'm ignoring the redundancy in
> a etherchannel.)

This depends on the
>
> 2) On a Unix system that will be doing heavy NFS work to a NetApp,
> is it better to use separate mounts on separate but smaller ethernet
> connections (100mbps ethernet), or, run all mounts through one wide
> ethernet connection (gigabit ethernet)?
>
> Specifically, I'm going to be setting up an Oracle DB on a NetApp.
> I'm looking at whether I would be better off using multiple 100mbps
> ethernets or one gigabit ethernet connection.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for all opinions!!!!!!!!!
>
> rick
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>



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