Message-Id: <10528.109340@fatcity.com> From: "Rachel Carmichael" Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:34:47 GMT Subject: 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 >Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L >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. > >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@gennick.com > > http://gennick.com > > Brighten the Corner Where You Are > > > > > > > > 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 > > INET: jonathan@gennick.com > > > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > > to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > > > >Jared Still >Certified Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist ;-) >Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon >jkstill@bcbso.com - Work - preferred address >jkstill@teleport.com - private > > >-- >Author: Jared Still > INET: jkstill@bcbso.com > >Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 >San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in >the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L >(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may >also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). ________________________________________________________________________