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Re: [Networker] Performance of NW 7.2.x on Solaris 8 or 9 or 10?

2007-04-04 13:20:15
Subject: Re: [Networker] Performance of NW 7.2.x on Solaris 8 or 9 or 10?
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:15:17 -0700
> We're planning on upgrading an old E450 with Solaris 8 running NW
> 7.2.x with a new V440, but we're debating which OS to run.  Most of
> our remaining Sun boxes still run Solaris 8, it's been nice and stable
> for years.  We do have some Solaris 9 boxes, and I seem to recall that
> 9 made network and IO performance boosts over 8.  But it might be time
> to dip our toes into the Solaris 10 waters.  
> 
> Our setup is a Netapp FAS960 with around 12Tb of data, backed up via
> NFS currently, a Notes server, plus some other small misc boxes to
> backup.   We've looked into NDMP backups in the past, but the limits
> on restores being 10,240 files or less for Indexed backups really just
> kills using NDMP for us.  

What's your filer OS?  I thought the limit was 1 million files even back
on 7.1?  Of course even 1M files may not be sufficient for you, but it's
a lot better than 10K.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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