Its all fine unless some jacka$$ starts pulling fiber cables w/o paying attention, then the paths die, databases crash, etc.

joe


Matthew Zito wrote:


Hundreds, nay, thousands put their datafiles on SAN.  All love it.  All
would trade their children for more SAN storage.  None have ever had a
problem.  :)

Seriously, though, some huge percentage of storage being configured
today is SAN and a big chunk of that is database storage.  It by and
large works fine, in that its just as good as SCSI-attached, only
generally faster and you can put the array farther away from the host :)
The gotchas tend to come up in more complex environments with things
like combining multiple san vendors, different operating systems, remote
replication, snapshots, etc. etc.  But just hooking up hosts to fibre
channel storage and sending commands tends to go off flawlessly.

Thanks,
Matt

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Is anyone putting datafiles on SAN storage? Success? Horror? Tell me a story.

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