Re: Oracle + IBM Shark Disk Arrays

From: Allan Plesniarski <aplesnia_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:22:25 GMT
Message-ID: <8omb8o$7nv$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

Yes, the Shark only runs RAID 5 at the moment, but you don't notice it because of the cache. It was chosen as a SAN for RS/6000's and HP's, and performed flawlessley. There were multiple Oracle databases on multiple servers running off the Shark at the same time.

In article <8olnnu$edr$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>, wax_man_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> Does anyone here have any experience (good or bad) using the IBM Shark
> Disk Arrays with Oracle? From what the salesperson is saying, it
> appears that the drive array will only run in RAID 5. However, they
> are stating that this system will not have the normal penalties of
RAID
> 5. We really want some "real world" users to let us know if this is
> actually true, and how they work for you.
>
> Also, this system will be used as the san for all of our Sun machines
> (which run the Oracle db's). Any comments of good/bad experiences
with
> the Sun with IBM Shark disk array would also be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks for any and all comments.
>
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>

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