Re: Internal Disk/SAN DIsk for Oracle Binaries

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:21:39 -0700
Message-ID: <1087442519.107810@yasure>

NorwoodThree wrote:

> lsdba_at_yahoo.com (lps) wrote in message news:<ab35544f.0406160914.acce50f_at_posting.google.com>...
>

>>Hi - Can anyone elaborate on whether to install the Oracle binaries on
>>internal mirrored disks or on a SAN with RAID5? Can you give me
>>pros/cons with each scenario? This is a 9.2 installation on AIX.
>>
>>Thanks in advance, lps

>
>
> What's your backup solution? On a very high level, if you put the
> binaries on the SAN, and your SAN is being backed up, that might be a
> good place to put it. A lot of variables there...

I would presume any hardware would be backed up ... and there is the mirror on the internal drives. How bad could it get?

The problem with the binaries on the SAN is that the SAN may be supporting multiple instances. How many copies of those binaries do you think you can put on it before someone changes the init.ora of the wrong one? From my experience ... two.

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