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I spoke to EMC recently, their minimum disk size is 18Gig, which generally sucks for any OLTP database, I have problems with 9Gig disks, and they were talking about : "soon we'll be able to use 72Gig disks, 144Gig disks, etc"... who gives a f***. I am happy with Sun 5200 for now, and don't need some expensive solutions which I'll have to utilize only by about 50% to get some decent performance.
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:00:29 -0000, "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>One of the big reasons for buying the 'Enterprise Storage'
>solution is that it's all a nice big black box and you don't
>have to worry about what's going on inside.
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>Most DBAs seem to spend a lot of their time trying
>to find out what is going on inside the database.
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>I sympathise with your common sense DBA perspective,
>I once spent several weeks trying to explain to management
>that the problem was clearly inside the big black box and
>they should try a produce a map of which bits of wire
>were sending data to which discs.
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>One of my rules of thumb - if it's an Oracle database avoid
>any discs bigger than 9Gb: and I bet your Enterprise
>Storage boxes are talking about 36Gb+.
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>Jonathan Lewis
>Yet another Oracle-related web site: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk
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>Doug Coan wrote in message <8a5l9s$hbs$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
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>>You can imagine the stance I am taking from a common sense DBA
>>perspective as my minor dealing with only partially dedicated DASD has
>>been horrendous. But, I wonder if anyone out there actual lives in this
>>type of environment. I would like to share your stories (good or bad)
>>with our decision makers and perhaps learn if there are some tpis/tricks
>>which make this remotely feasable.
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Andrey Dmitriev eFax: (978) 383-5892 Daytime: (917) 750-3630 AOL: NetComrade ICQ: 11340726 remove NSPAM to emailReceived on Sun Mar 12 2000 - 00:00:00 CST
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