From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Aug 26 17:02:37 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i7QM2ba18777 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:02:37 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i7QM2aI18772 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:02:36 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id AAF4B72D1D8; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:06:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00931-73; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:06:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 0103F72D1C0; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:06:19 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:04:49 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 043D072C24B for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:04:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00925-45 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:04:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from s2.ppoone.com (s2.ppoone.com [66.54.156.153]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 9E23672C1BE for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:04:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from RJE3 (rje2.ppoone.com [172.20.5.34]) by s2.ppoone.com (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i7QM6uZa001605 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:06:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:08:03 -0500 From: Robert Eskridge X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) Personal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1541316777593.20040826170803@dfweahs.net> To: "Duret, Kathy" Subject: Re: BINARIES - San or Local Storage In-Reply-To: <07BA8175B092D611B1DE00B0D049A31501B0BBCE@exchange.ad.starkinvestments.com> References: <07BA8175B092D611B1DE00B0D049A31501B0BBCE@exchange.ad.starkinvestments.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org X-archive-position: 8415 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: bryny@dfweahs.net Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org D> We are in the process of moving to 10G and getting a new SAN EMC Clarion D> Storage Array. We also MAY be going to RAC. These are Solaris Boxes D> The question is I have read conflicing things about whether to put the D> binaries on the local internal disks or the SAN arrays. D> I have always put the binaries on the local internal disk. What do you do D> and why? D> Is the local reads for the binaries that much quicker? We use Sun and NetApp filers as NAS in a majorly TP environment, but the discussion is the same. We keep the full Oracle install on local disks. Our load on the local disks is pretty minimal, suggesting that the load generated accessing the binaries is trivial. And that suggests that from a performance standpoint, it really doesn't matter where they live in our environment. We made the decision to keep them on local drives on each server so that we could make a server stand alone with small local datafiles if we ever needed to. Occasionally it has come in handy but not enough that I would get up on a soapbox and suggest others should do the same. The storage vendor is certainly going to suggest that you put everything on his equipment -- it can push you to buy more capacity. So ignore the vendor and see how it really fits into your overall operational strategy of product, recovery, testing, etc. -rje ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------