Re: SAN and Oracle

Apparently Oracle only supports SAN under NT.

I did an HSM/SAN configuration about two years ago. It worked fine, as long as the network pipe was large enough, until another group 'took over' my HSM server. Timing went traveling in a handbasket, block overruns and all. I had to reconfigure my server (which was NT) dropping SAN because 'they' had the political backing.

Recent space issues have resulted in my organization revisiting my earlier project for another server, also NT. I have been scheduled to redo the SAN/HSM configuration for a 400GB NT database in the middle of next month. I should be able to move 300GB to the SAN/HSM server as read only tablespaces using NFS. (The db grows at 5GB a week, so once I show it works, it will be an ongoing configuration.)

The key is a solid NFS with a big net pipe. In article <967107884.13380_at_ns.cci.dk>,
  "Lehmann" <Spaceboy_NOoneSPAM_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Expirence with SAN? Not directly, but a customer of ours is using SAN.
> Performance is good, but....when something goes wrong (and we know
 Murphy
> law, right?) it goes very wrong!They had a HW error in the SAN which
 broke
> down a 24/7 system for two days. Old/Bugged/Bad BIOS on the SAN ;-)
 They
> kicked out the HW supplier...... (which we are not luckily!)
>
> Lehmann
>
> "Beam Meup" <svu_at_ibeam.com> wrote in message
> news:w8Do5.62479$dC1.85968_at_dfw-read.news.verio.net...
> > Anyone who have experiece with using storage area network for data
> > storage with Oracle server?
> >
> > Beame Up.
> >
> >
>
>

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