[Discuss] Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:16 AM, <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> NFS is not as fast as a local disk, but it should not be that slow.
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>
> I remember the first time I set up a NetApp fileserver,back in 1999. I
> expected
> that NFS would be slower than local disk, but I was hoping the performance
> would still be acceptable.
>
> We had one of the heaviest users run his overnight jobs both on his local
> workstation and on the NetApp NFS share to compare times, and we
> discovered
> that the NetApp's NFS share gave much *faster* throughput than his local
> disks.
>
> His local desktop was a high-end Sun Ultrasparc workstation with the RAM
> maxed out and with fast SAS disks, tuned for maximum performance, yet
> over a 100Mb Ethernet, the NetApp outperformed his workstation's local
> disks.

That's impressive, especially over 100M ethernet.

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