Re: Oracle on Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network Attached Storage (NAS)

> > >I am developing criteria (pros and cons) for evaluating Oracle certified
> > >storage area networks and/or network attached storage with an Oracle 8.1.7
> > >Enterprise Server running on Sun Sparc Solaris 8, but need some pointers
> > >from existing customers who develop and/or maintain their related Oracle
> > >instances. Any backup or recovery gotchas? Any storage tuning or
> > >configuration issues? NFS headaches?
>
> We are also looking into SAN solutions to store Oracle databases...
> but I placed the decision on hold since I saw this :
>
> http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/htdocs/9ifaq.html#A548
>
> It's a little old (9 months), but couldn't find anything newer
> in Oracle's site.

I wouldn't put my datafiles (especially redo logs etc.) on NAS, it is too slow (NFS overhead). We are using four Sun E3500, Brocade switches, EMC Clariion and it works fine. Even atf works!

Regards,

Knut Received on Wed Jan 23 2002 - 07:55:04 CST