By Karl Dohm, Storage Architect Welcome back to the next in a series of posts where we take a closer look at NetApp and its FAS series of storage arrays. The discussion topic today is Microsoft's Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) and its tie to FAS throughput. The FAS has some controversial...
By Jim Haberkorn I had hoped that my last post in regards to NetApp performance claims would end gracefully, as a courageous NetApp employee has apparently now agreed to work with us to find out what we may be doing wrong, if anything, to be getting such poor performance out of our NetApp filer. FYI...
By Karl Dohm, HP Storage Architect To recap, in this series of posts we are exploring some of the limitations of WAFL and specifically how those limitations manifest themselves to an average user of the FAS. For my previous posts see Part1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 . I had made the assertion in the original...
By Karl Dohm, HP Storage Architect Sorry for the delay, I'm just finally getting back to this making the third installment on this thread. For the previous posts see threads Making Sense of WAFL and Making Sense of WAFL Part 2 . In this series it we are trying to seek technical truths in the highly...
By Karl Dohm, HP Storage Architect Today I'm taking a few minutes to respond to some of the comments regarding my initial post on Making Sense of WAFL . Apparently in that post I unwittingly opened up a few of NetApp's old wounds which have been extensively hashed through previously in public...
By Karl Dohm, HP Storage Architect Extensible NetApp Blog ( http://blogs.netapp.com/extensible_netapp ) contains some posts describing WAFL. It sums WAFL up as an internal component which... ...provides mechanisms for building file-system semantics, it manages the on-disk format, it manages the free...