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I'm not sure that the NetApp FAS270 is offered as a separate gFiler. The smallest gFiler I believe is the GF920 (and GF920C for a fault tolerant version). There are performance differences and I recommend going to www.spec.org and looking at the NFS benchmarks there. Every environment is slightly different, but that is an independent benchmark (not a lab that was paid to run a vendor specified test) which is a great place to start.
Performance is one thing to take into account. A few others are:
- Maximum capacity supported.
- Cache memory.
- Number of back-end (Fibre Channel) connections to disk.
- The types of disk arrays supported.
- Features, and how they work: Snapshot, remote copy and aggregated management.
There is a workbook on things to consider available for free on our Web site: www.evaluatorgroup.com.
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