Re: Rac on Linux

JEDIDIAH wrote:
> On 2006-10-11, Fuzzy <fuzzy.greybeard_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > JEDIDIAH wrote:
> >
> >> Once you've tossed out all of your OS utilities for dealing
> >> with disk devices in favor of putting all of your eggs in Oracle's
> >> basket, then how do you do targeted load testing on your storage
> >> subsystem?
> >>
> >> In general, do you have any clue how to validate a disk
> >> or disk subsystem before it goes into production?
> >
> > What do you mean 'targeted load testing'?
>
> Test the SAN itself, isolated from any other variable conditions.

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> How does the sysadmin do his QA before he hands over the system
> to the DBA?
>

I would expect the sysadmin to use the SAN vendor's tools. That does for both QA and load testing of raw disk IO.

I still don't see how this has anything to do with trusting ASM. Received on Wed Oct 11 2006 - 16:57:45 CDT