Re: Datafiles on SAN?

Its all fine unless some jacka$$ starts pulling fiber cables w/o paying attention, then the paths die, databases crash, etc.

joe

Matthew Zito wrote:

>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
>GridApp Systems
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>Cell: 646-220-3551
>Phone: 212-358-8211 x 359
>http://www.gridapp.com
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>>Behalf Of Tim Levatich
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>>Subject: Datafiles on SAN?
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>>Is anyone putting datafiles on SAN storage?
>>Success? Horror? Tell me a story.
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