Re: hardware or software based disk ownership?

"John Stoffel" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.netapp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "tmac" == tmac  <[email protected]> writes:

tmac> Also, if you are doing NAS data (and unstructured, like home
tmac> dirs, NOT databases or VMDKs) you should upgrade to 9.7P5 and
tmac> use FlexGroups which would utilize your entire system:
tmac> aggregates on both nodes, Networking on both nodes, CPU/RAM on
tmac> both nodes. Actually can improve performance!

Unfortunately there's no hope of me getting to that release any time
soon, but do DBs and VMDKs lose performance with FlexGroups?  And does
it really help on just two node clusters?  I would assume it might
help on four node clusters on up.

John
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