Re: Symbolic link pointing to Oracle Home

"Vincent Ventrone" <vav_at_brandeis.edu> wrote in message news:9f1215$dm4$1_at_new-news.cc.brandeis.edu...
>
> > > OEM or other Oracle tools? Having a symlink sure makes it easier when
 I
> > > upgrade versions to new directories. I also like having symlinks
 pointing
> > > to datafile locations, makes it easier to move them around if
 necessary.
>
> (snip)
>
> > IMO it has never been cool, and it is for the lazy only.
> > It has resulted in problems at various sites I have been overseeing more
> > than once, because people beliieved Oracle was installed two times, and
>
> I wonder whether it would be OK if the ORACLE_HOME was on a
 network-attached
> storage device (like Network Appliance)? I have been considering doing so
> that we only need to install/upgrade/patch a single copy of each Oracle
> release which can then be shared to multiple machines (Solaris boxes in
 this
> case) that are "attached" to the net appliance. Each host would have a
> symbolic link to the appropriate file system on the net appliance...
>

you would need to verify with network appliance that they actually support "sharing" a single file system by more than one host, and i'm not sure what kind of support a netapp filer would provide for that type of configuration.

the network appliance website has several papers discussing the placement of oracle datafiles on a netapp filer. the emphasis seems to be placed on the advantages of placing the database datafiles on the netapp filer. Received on Tue May 29 2001 - 20:55:53 CDT