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From: skapitza@volcanomail.com (s.kapitza)
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Subject: Re: SAN revisited
Date: 5 Jun 2002 23:47:32 -0700
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hi,

i m having here a compaq san.

my expirience is, that you should have at least a mirror of the
archives (if you have one) on the local disk. So if your San is going
to sleep, you could
probably recover at least your database somewhere else.

regards

stefan kapitza


spamdump@nospam.noway.nohow (Ed Stevens) wrote in message news:<3cfe711b.88492845@ausnews.austin.ibm.com>...
> A few weeks ago I posted, requesting general comments and experiences on the use
> of SAN with Oracle databases.  Now I have a followup.
> 
> Given a server connected to a SAN (this will be Dell hardware if it makes any
> difference) and hosting multiple databases, is there any performance or
> administrative advantage to keeping some of the files on local drives?  
> 
> What I'm thinking here is that perhaps local drive access will be somewhat
> faster than the SAN and so might be a better location for rollbacks and temp
> space.