Re: What should sys admins know about Oracle?

Rachel

    Why not backup your databases to it --- Disk to Disk --- and then 'whatever to tape (dlt)' and then, you now have a 'quicker' MTR, if you have a database failure. I concur --- wasn't that long ago that 4 GB drives started worrying me !!
Gottat have those spindles !! I was recently forced to move a busy data base (scheduling) to a new server , albeit independent and 0+1 BUT I GOT TWO DRIVES (spread across 4 physical stripped drives) so what ??? I hope it will perform . Previously it was one of those data bases that ran too FAST for the application. Wee will see --- implementation in the morning.

Rachel Carmichael wrote:

> I am being given a "single" terabyte drive
>
> And I am expected to jump for joy. Sigh.
>
> >From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_bcbso.com>
> >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >Subject: Re: What should sys admins know about Oracle?
> >Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:19:31 -0800
> >
> >On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Jonathan Gennick wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 1. Oracle needs lots of physically separate disks. Please
> > > don't replace 9 4-gig drives with one 36 gig drive<g>.
> >
> >Good luck getting it. We are purchasing the new 'Shark'
> >Enterprise Storage Systems from IBM.
> >
> >The smallest physical drive available is 18 Gig.
> >
> >The only configuration allowed on them is RAID 5.
> >
> >It is impossible to get a consistent stripe width
> >across all RAID's.
> >
> >RAID 5 and cache are becoming the storage panacea.
> >
> >Jared
> >
> > >
> > > 2. Mount points used for Oracle should correspond to
> > > physically separate drives, or at least I should know when
> > > they don't. I once had a sys admin give me 3 mount points to
> > > use for control files, and it turned out that they all
> > > pointed to the same drive. I had a difficult time explaining
> > > to him why that was a bad thing.
> > >
> > > So what else? What else do system administrators "need" to
> > > know about Oracle?
> > >
> > > Jonathan
> > >
> > > _____________________________________________________
> > > jonathan_at_gennick.com
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:58:37 -0800, Chris Royce wrote:
> > >
> > > >I DO agree with you about 'clueless sys admins' BUT, at all of my
> >sites
> > > >---- I have a 'pow-wow' with the sys admin and explain what the ORACLE
> > > >systems archetecture is all about and the importance of just a few
> > > >components.
> > >
> > > --
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