Interoperability and Performance Data Sheet

1.0 Interoperability
2.0 Performance Data

This document provides the interoperability details of NFS* Gateway for NetWare® 6 and records the performance data of the product compared to NFS Gateway on NetWare NFS Services 3.0 Support Pack 4 over NetWare 5.1 Support Pack 5.


1.0 Interoperability

The NFS Gateway for NetWare 6 interoperates with the following NCP/ CIFS clients, and remote NFS servers:


Table . NCP / CIFS Clients

Protocol Clients

NCP over IP

Windows NT*

Windows 2000

Windows XP

NCP over IPX

Windows NT

Windows 98

CIFS

Windows 95

Windows 2000


Table . Remote NFS Servers

NFS Version Remote NFS Server

Versions 2 and 3

Solaris* 8 for Intel

Versions 2 and 3

Solaris 8 for SPARC*

Versions 2 and 3

REDHAT Linux* 7.3

Versions 2 and 3

HP-UX* 11.0

Versions 2 and 3

FreeBSD* 4.5

Versions 2 and 3

NetApp F87

Version 2

IBM-AIX

Version 2

UnixWare* 7.1.0

2.0 Performance Data

The following table gives the performance data of NFS Gateway for NetWare 6 in comparison to NFS Gateway performance on NetWare NFS Services 3.0 Support Pack 4 over NetWare 5.1 Support Pack 5.

NFS Gateway for NetWare 6 performance was assessed from Windows XP client using NCP over IP for a volume imported from Solaris* 8 for Intel over NFS Versions 2, and 3.

NFS Version Performance area Improvement in Performance

Version 2

File Read

1.2 times better

Version 3

File Read

1.1 times better

Version 3

File Write

1.8 times better

Version 3

File Read/Write

1.5 times better

Version 2

Directory Write

15 times better

Version 3

Directory Write

15 to 20 times better

Version 2

Directory Listing

6 to 7 times better

Version 3

Directory Listing

6 to 8 times better

NOTE:  The performance over V2 and V3 improves as the number of entries increase.

Version 2 and Version 3

Recursive Directory Listing

3 times better