Re: Oracle Enterprise Manager Question

From: Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 03:09:50 +0200
Message-ID: <464f9fdc$0$14245$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>

"Dereck L. Dietz" <dietzdl_at_ameritech.net> wrote in message news:v9M3i.3688$4Y.796_at_newssvr19.news.prodigy.net...
>I have a question to hopefully clarify something for me.
>
> The offsite DBA has told us that our database is on a server wish "racks
> of
> drives" and mentioned a number of about 20 drives at one time.
>
> Yet, when I look on Enterprise Manager all I can find is 5 drives listed
> (C,D,E,F,G).
>
> We are not using ASM.
>
> Would Oracle Enterprise Manager group disks into a single entity or does
> it
> show what is actually there?
> Or could there be another explanation?
>
> Thanks.
>

The drives could be protected by RAID. For example the "C" logical volume in Windows could correspond with 2 "physical" hard disks with RAID-1 protection (mirroring). Your local system administrator probably has more info :-)

HTH
Matthias Received on Sat May 19 2007 - 20:09:50 CDT