Re: NAS with Oracle ?

I wouldn't put NAS for Oracle on anything other than a dedicated network either. However, with NAS, you are limited to your network speeds, probably meaning Gigabit Ethernet. A FibreChannel switch in a SAN is definitely faster than GigE.

Cheers,
Brian

Dusan Bolek wrote:
>
> Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_adelphia.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.11.30.06.04.14.363603_at_adelphia.net>...
> > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:30:36 +0100, zeb wrote:
> >
> > Support for NAS disks is vendor specific. I know that NetAppliance is
> > supported and I don't know of anything else. The problem with NAS is that
> > it uses LAN to access disk drives (by means of NFS) so an intense period
> > in database activity can disrupt email, printing, file transfers and
> > backups. LAN is the shared infrastructure, and no matter how fast it is,
> > it will never be fast enough.
>
> Wov! I wouldn't dare to even think about NAS not using dedicated
> network. Did you really seen somewhere usage of NAS on the network
> providing also email, printing, file transfers and other mentioned
> services? That's something that I would call Suicidal Tendencies
> Enterprise Edition.
>
> --
> Dusan Bolek

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