Re: Oracle on Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Knut Talman <knut.talman_at_mytoys.de> wrote in message news:<3C4EC0B8.E0BAAD1F_at_mytoys.de>...
> > > >I am developing criteria (pros and cons) for evaluating Oracle certified
> > > >storage area networks and/or network attached storage with an Oracle 8.1.7
> > > >Enterprise Server running on Sun Sparc Solaris 8, but need some pointers
> > > >from existing customers who develop and/or maintain their related Oracle
> > > >instances. Any backup or recovery gotchas? Any storage tuning or
> > > >configuration issues? NFS headaches?
> >
> > We are also looking into SAN solutions to store Oracle databases...
> > but I placed the decision on hold since I saw this :
> >
> > http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/htdocs/9ifaq.html#A548
> >
> > It's a little old (9 months), but couldn't find anything newer
> > in Oracle's site.
>
> I wouldn't put my datafiles (especially redo logs etc.) on NAS, it is
> too slow (NFS overhead). We are using four Sun E3500, Brocade switches,
> EMC Clariion and it works fine. Even atf works!
>
> Regards,
>
> Knut

I had the same opinion regarding NAS & Oracle as a no-no, but by using Gigabit cards, shouldn't that take care of performance problems?

// Carlos Received on Wed Jan 23 2002 - 11:46:15 CST