Re: AIX/Oracle with RAID 5 or 7???

Karl-Heinz Frankeser wrote:
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> elcaro <g-grooms_at_stl.prc.com> wrote:
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> >I'm looking for some recommendations/warnings about RAID vendors for IBM
> >RS/6000 AIX and Oracle. I am looking to purchase a RAID solution for J30
> >SMP servers.
 

> >Any comments?
>
> We use a J30 too and decided to go away from RAID5. IBM has the
> SSA-Disks. It is very quick and it wasn't expensive to buy twice the
> disk-space (type is 7133 i think) and use RAID1(mirroring). There is
> another possibility with RAID1 and SSA. It is to place one disk-system
> at a remote location for disaster recovery purpuses.
> The mirroring is done by AIX.
>
> Greetinfg
> KHF
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> K.-H. Frankeser KH.Frankeser_at_ndh.net
> http://www.ndh.net/home/frankeser/
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Yes, IBM's SSA disk storage is alternative to RAID however it should be noted that only RAID 1 may be configured on it. Halina Monka Received on Mon Jun 24 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST