Are you sure you didn't work here on our current 6-way K-570 w/AutoRAID? I've been here for almost 10 years, but I don't recall... ;) For us, we were just oversold. Not anymore.
BTW, I believe ours is known as an "AutoRAID 12H". The "Virtual Array" VA7100 is a separate RAID unit that sounds a lot like a SAN. The only problem is that I know the VA7100 does RAID5DP (double parity), but I'm fairly certain it can NOT do any combination of 0 and 1. If it can't, don't do it. You *will* suffer in an I/O hell by using RAID5, despite the hype of huge I/O caching on the SAN (or VA in this case). I believe there are some horror stories around the list about RAID5 and Oracle DBs. If that's true, I'd say run far away from both of them. I suppose the HP Surestore Disk Arrays are priced too high? I know they can do RAID 0/1 at least. You may want to check out http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/eng/prodserv/storage.html HTH! GL! :) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA > -----Original Message----- > From: Vergara, Michael (TEM) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:40 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: AUTORAID and VA7100 disk arrays for rp7400 > > > I'm not sure what a VA7100 is, so I don't want to tell you > to avoid it. The AutoRaid I used just said "AutoRaid" on the > front. It had 12 disks...I think they were 9G or 18G each. > It had only 96M of cache, not expandable. Only 2 SCSI > channels - not expandable. > > What happened was that our whole database was on this array. > Yes, even on-line and archived redo logs. The array did so > much internal thrashing that the disk response times were > abysmal. > > <RANT> > The boss got it cause he didn't want to pay the extra $$$ > for a 'real' array from EMC, Hitachi, or IBM. It had the > magic word 'Raid' in the name so he went for it, and then > was all over me because the system was so slow. I should'a > known what was up when a JBOD D-370 2-way did stuff faster > than our K570 6-way and the AutoRaid. > </RANT> > > Take my advice - don't go with an AutoRaid. > > Cheers, > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:45 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Michael, > > a dumb question. does this stops me from using VA7100 with > 0+1 or are u talking about going some other disk array product? > > Thanks > Mandar -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
