H'mm. I'm going to feel anxious over Christmas. Out network guys have
told us that they are going to implement a SAN solution (sounds like
something you put down a lavatory!) over the Christmas shut down. As
yet, they haven't had ANY consultation with us DBA types.
In article <u1775ga8a2v641_at_corp.supernews.com>, Van Messner
<vmessner_at_bestweb.net> writes
> Yes. With the EMC/SAN we have we don't get to decide which disks will
>hold our mirrored online redo, controlfiles, etc. We raised this objection
>with the hardware guys last month and were told this is progress and at some
>point we'd have to learn to "trust the technology". They had mirrored
>disks, multiple disk controllers and even two cables between the controllers
>and disks. Friday the hardware guys lost both cables, the databases crashed
>down, and we had some ugly messages in our alert logs.
> By the end of the day, in this case, we had fully restored and
>recovered. But we still don't like not being able to place Oracle pieces
>where we want them to be. Friday could have been much worse.
>
>"James Chappell" <james_at_rees-chappell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:rzh1NnAauqE8EwPA_at_rees-chappell.demon.co.uk...
>> Does anyone have any experience of running Oracle (8.0.6, as it happens)
>> in conjunction with Storage Area Networks?
>>
>> Any Snags, or problems?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance..
>> --
>> James Chappell
>
>
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James Chappell
Received on Mon Dec 10 2001 - 17:39:19 CST
