RE: SAN, Heterogenous environments, Backups

John,

I forwarded your suggestion, together, with more information on the Veritas Foundation Suite
to the team negotiating the hardware solution with the vendors [my involvement came in as I was allowed to us about how database backups in a SAN were to be done].

Hemant

At 09:29 AM 07-02-03 -0800, you wrote:
>Hemant,
>
>Could you check what happens if all the filesystems that were 'shadow
>copied' were VxFS filesystems? I would assume that Veritas maintains the
>same formats across *nix versions.... Btw, I haven't implemented
>Heterogenous implementations on a SAN, but am just suggesting an
>alternate... Let us know what they say!
>
>John Kanagaraj
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:34 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: SAN, Heterogenous environments, Backups
> >
> >
> >
> > We are considering implementing a SAN,
> > using Sun StorEdge SS9970 [OEM from Hitachi], where database
> > servers will be a mix of Sun Solaris and HP HPUX
> > running Oracle 8i, 9i, 9iRAC [in phase-2].
> >
> > As the database files will be on File Systems [Sun or HP],
> > the solutions provider says that backups of the
> > HP file systems cannot be done by the backup server
> > running Solaris.
> > The proposal is to use "shadow copies". The Sun Engineer
> > says that the "shadow copy" must be mounted as a file
> > system on the backup server and as the backup server is
> > a Sun server it wouldn't be able to mount the HP file system.
> >
> > How are Heterogenous implementations on a SAN done ? How are
> > backups done ?
> >
> > Hemant K Chitale
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