Databases and Enterprise Storage

Question for the big shops out there. Our company is currently reviewing the potential of Enterprise storage options.

We currently use a mixture of partially/fully dedicated EMC, COMPAQ and SSA for our database servers. We have about 50 Oracle servers (NT, SUN, AIX) with @100 instances as small as 500M and as large as 1 TB. A couple of 2-3 TB databases will be here soon.

Any comments for/against loading all this up on a SINGLE (probably EMC) FRAME ALONG WITH all our file servers, print servers, application servers, MSSQL servers, Sybase servers, web servers, mainframe systems, VIC 20s :-) , etc.....

You can imagine the stance I am taking from a common sense DBA perspective as my minor dealing with only partially dedicated DASD has been horrendous. But, I wonder if anyone out there actual lives in this type of environment. I would like to share your stories (good or bad) with our decision makers and perhaps learn if there are some tpis/tricks which make this remotely feasable.

Thanks much........

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Doug Coan
Oracle Certified Professional DBA
AEGON USA
dcoan_at_aegonusa.com


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