Oracle-L: Re:why SAN ? why not external storage ?

From: <dgoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:09:43 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00567803.20030312070943@fatcity.com>

Rahul,

We're heading out onto the SAN route as well from the external storage world. Right now we use a number of HP-UX servers connected to one of two EMC symmetrix arrays for datafiles and one of two NetApp Filers for archive redo logs. They work well, but the EMC's are expensive and every now and then, like last year, you end up with a "forklift" upgrade. The NetApps are cheaper and are suppose to work for Oracle datafiles, but we've had a myriad of problems getting it to work. The idea of a SAN is that the actual disks can come from a number of vendors and the SAN implementation handles the differences so that you & I only see available disk space. And from Oracle's point of view all of the disks are local, not remote or NFS mounted or NAS or any of that other weird stuff out there. I would not classify it as much as a cost, but flexibility issue.

Dick Goulet

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Author: "Rahul" <rahul_at_infotech.co.id>
Date:       3/12/2003 12:33 AM

list, one of our clietns are going to by SAN, the current oracle databases take around
36GB of storage.... i dnt understand there reason to go for SAN, i sugguested to buy an external storage
box instead. How can i justify my desicion ? (cost of not the factor)

TIA
rahul

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