Re: What should sys admins know about Oracle?

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
> >
> > _____________________________________________________
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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.
> >
> > --
> > Author: Jonathan Gennick
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