Re: Oralce 8i Server using SAN

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:51:08 -0000
Message-ID: <974663303.4780.0.nnrp-10.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk>

'SAN' covers a multitude of sins.
Provided your setup ensures that a write request is not confirmed until the data
is definitely secured, a SAN is certainly reasonable option.

The only SAN I have used was located about three free from the computer, with a very short piece of dedicated fibre, so does not, perhaps conform to the standard image of a SAN.

However, with this setup, the performance was excellent - in part due to the fact that most of the discs in the box were striped at 64K, so the I/O load was very evenly spread, and a big load coming down the fibre could be distributed very rapidly.

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Jonathan Lewis
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John Kowalski wrote in message ...


>Does anyone have any experience with running Oracle on a SAN.

>

>I am looking for white papers or feedback from DBAs who have this kind of a

>setup.

>

>We currently run 8i (8.1.6) on a HP K-370 / HPUX 11.0 and are looking at

 SAN


>to increase our

>capacity and I/O bandwidth.

>

>Thanks

>

>J<

>

>John Kowalski

>Infrastructure Admin

>Statistics Canada

>kowajoh_at_statcan.ca

>

>

Received on Sun Nov 19 2000 - 14:51:08 CST