Re: SAN revisited

what kind of SAN?
I hope you're using gigabit dedicated network for strorage traffic. (i don't know much about them, but so far i've been skeptical on using SANs and databases).
local drives would also be a good location for system tablespace and redo logs.

On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 20:22:28 GMT, spamdump_at_nospam.noway.nohow (Ed Stevens) wrote:

>A few weeks ago I posted, requesting general comments and experiences on the use
>of SAN with Oracle databases. Now I have a followup.
>
>Given a server connected to a SAN (this will be Dell hardware if it makes any
>difference) and hosting multiple databases, is there any performance or
>administrative advantage to keeping some of the files on local drives?
>
>What I'm thinking here is that perhaps local drive access will be somewhat
>faster than the SAN and so might be a better location for rollbacks and temp
>space.
>
>--
>Ed Stevens
>(Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of my employer.)

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