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Re: Oracle 10g using SAN

From: JW <jw_at_abc.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:47:44 GMT
Message-ID: <3kaln1ps5o6c9mda1ahpfh4uokqbkann95@4ax.com>


On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:26:13 -0800, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

>JW wrote:
>
>> What I am not sure is do I need to divide the first LUN into 3 volumes
>> to hold data, index and redo/control files (to simulate my D, E, F
>> drive) ?
>
>No. Logical volumes are meaningless except with respect to management
>activities and backup. What you need to do is accept that you don't
>have the expertise required to make these decisions and ask EMC to
>advise you. They have a lot of experts that really know their stuff.
>
>> Or have 3 LUN, each will be one volume to simulate my D, E, F drives ?
>> If this is chosen, do I need to specify these LUN should be on
>> different physical drives ?
>>
>> Thanks again for the clarification and help in advance.
>>
>> JW
>
>Stop trying to get us to teach you a course on storage management
>in short paragraphs. You are doing yourself a huge disservice. At
>best you will get from ignorance to dangerous.
>
>Ask EMC to help you.

For sure, I will have EMC to give us advices.

As I read several posts about Storage people would usually configure the SAN for general purpose, like central storage for Exchange Server and File server. They might overlook the need to configure it for Oracle Database need. That's why I need some basic guide line from experienced Oracle SAN users.

Thomas gave me a good starting point.

Anyway, Thanks for the updates.

JW. Received on Tue Nov 15 2005 - 21:47:44 CST

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