RE: Datafiles on SAN?

From: Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:18:44 -0400
Message-Id: <25929.337871@fatcity.com>

Well, you can run Oracle over Netapp NFS, which is far superior to EMC's Celerra (their NFS product), except in a few niche features. By the way, Netapp just released their FAS250 low-end filer - up to 1TB usable in 3U, pretty speedy, and damn cheap.

Rolling your own SAN is certainly doable, but Fibre Channel is fraught with implementation and interop problems. If you're set on doing it, get someone who's done SAN implementations before to oversee it, and get _written_ signoff from each vendor you're using that they'll guarantee interop. Then test the heck out of it.

Thanks,
Matt

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On 

> Behalf Of Orr, Steve

> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:09 PM

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> Subject: RE: Datafiles on SAN?

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> 

> Has any "rolled their own" SAN? We've got a bunch of stuff on 

> EMC but now we're looking to build our own fibre channel SAN 

> and replace EMC NFS with clustered file systems. (Of course 

> Oracle is not on NFS.)

> 

> Disk may be cheap but vendor SAN boxes are not.

> 

> 

> Steve Orr

> Bozeman, MT

> 

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> 

> 

> Hundreds, nay, thousands put their datafiles on SAN.  All 

> love it.  All would trade their children for more SAN 

> storage.  None have ever had a problem.  :)

> 

> Seriously, though, some huge percentage of storage being 

> configured today is SAN and a big chunk of that is database 

> storage.  It by and large works fine, in that its just as 

> good as SCSI-attached, only generally faster and you can put 

> the array farther away from the host :) The gotchas tend to 

> come up in more complex environments with things like 

> combining multiple san vendors, different operating systems, 

> remote replication, snapshots, etc. etc.  But just hooking up 

> hosts to fibre channel storage and sending commands tends to 

> go off flawlessly.

> 

> Thanks,

> Matt

> 

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> Matthew Zito

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> > 

> > Is anyone putting datafiles on SAN storage?

> > Success?   Horror?    Tell me a story.

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