Re: Oracle and network dasd

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:09:31 +0200
Message-ID: <63ohcu8tjurj3aenldfmj0k3395ahr5rqu@4ax.com>

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:23:40 -0700, Not Tellen <NotMe_at_NoSpam.Com> wrote:

>We are being told by a number of vendors that oracle runs well on
>network attached storage. I have heard reports from other users that
>this is not so. I would appreciate hearing your experiences in that arena.
>
>Just to be clear, I am not talking about SAN storage that is connected
>via a standard SCSI or Fibré interface. I am talking about the storage
>that is attached via NFS or other network protocol. I am keenly
>interested to storage attached to AIX but want to hear about all
>experiences.
>
>Thanks!

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NFS. You aren't serious, aren't you? Or do you simply have no budget? Oracle advises *strongly* against using NFS. It will be dead slow (especially using NFS 2 which is the default on AIX) and unstable. If the remote system drops the connection, do you know what is going to happen? Probably crash the database.
Oracle does support NAS, though AFAIK only the netapps implementation of it, www.netapp.com

Hth

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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