Re: file placement and SAN

From: Knut Talman <knut.talman_at_mytoys.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:51:26 +0200
Message-ID: <3CC6E28E.7060907@mytoys.de>

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

<snip>

> Evidently we have here the frequent problem of system administrators
> not cooperating with DBAs. The first thing you should do is check out
> whether Oracle supports using a SAN for your platform *at all* (and
> IIRC there a pretty few vendors they support for SUN, and for NT it
> might be not supported at all, as Oracle also can not deal properly
> with networked drives)

In a SAN a drive should work like a local drive so Oracle won't see a difference if the drivers are not questionable.
NAS is a different story...

Regards,

Knut Received on Wed Apr 24 2002 - 11:51:26 CDT