NFS servers & Oracle

From: Martin Smith <mfmsith_at_erols.com>
Date: 1997/02/06
Message-ID: <32FA894B.4C7@erols.com>#1/1

We're shopping for storage for our HP-UX-based Oracle server, and have been considering an "NFS server"--a network-attached special-purpose RAIDed file server that supports NFS (and maybe SMB or the more recent version of that, which I forget the name of just now.)

This seems to be a (fairly) new category, with products from Auspex, Network Appliance, Falcon, and Sun (and no doubt more.) The price is attractive ($.80 to $2.00 per meg) and we like the idea of being host-independent.

HOWEVER, apparently Oracle's official position is that "NFS is not supported."

Can anyone comment on this? Is this just over-conservatism by Oracle or is there a real problem? Is anyone USING any of these products for Oracle or other database storage?

Thanks. Received on Thu Feb 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CST