RE: NFS

We found NFS to be about three times as fast as NetServer shares.  The
main issues we had with NFS were security related or with the clients.
We also found that our NFS client (Omni Lite, on a Windows server) began
negotiating a much lower buffer size after upgrading the iSeries to
V5R3.  This was solved by hardcoding the buffer size in the client.

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group


-----Original Message-----
date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:17:22 -0600
from: John_Bresina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
subject: NFS 


Several of our windows file shares have been migrated to a NETAPPS box.
We
used to map to these windows servers using QNTC however these no longer
work with the NETAPPS server.  We are being told that we need to use
NFS.
Does anybody have any experience with the Iseries mapping to a NETAPPS
file
share?  I have always heard that NFS is a performance nightmare, is this
true?  This NETAPPS solution has already been implemented in production
at
our site and is now causing issues with our daily batch runs.

John Bresina Jr
Sr Server Engineer - Midrange Team
Allianz Life of North America


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