Re: datafiles on NFS?

It isn't correct to say that only NetApp is supported there are other NAS vendors out there, and I'm not entirely clear that plain NFS as opposed to a NAS system is unsupported provided you mount with the correct options - it would be good to see a note that refers you to the need to buy a NAS device. I'm not sure I'd be trying os supplied nfs any time soon mind you.

Niall

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Elliott, Patrick < patrick.elliott_at_medtronic.com> wrote:

> NFS will work only if you are using Network Appliance. Just plain UNIX
> NFS will not work. You will get a corrupt database.
>
>
> Pat
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> I've got a 9iR2 database on an AIX server which is currently experiencing
> some SAN problems. The SysAdmins have indicated that we need to move off
> the SAN for several days while they address the issue, and has suggested
> that we relocate the database to NFS in the interim. My preference would be
> a backup/restore to another server, but we unfortunately don't have any
> other AIX systems available, and the application has some constraints which
> prevent us from migrating to another OS at present.
>
> I'm somewhat reluctant to use NFS for Oracle datafiles, largely because we
> simply haven't done this for any other environments, but I'm not sure that I
> have many options in this specific case. Is anyone doing this? If so, is
> there anything in particular that I should be sure to check/address?
>
> Thanx!
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