RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-24 Thread Matthew Zito
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mercadante, Thomas F Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OFA and Shared Storage except that in the 5 years I have been using EMC SAN, we have *never* experienced an outage. never had to perform

Re: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-23 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OFA and Shared Storage I read some posts on here with shared storage such as SAN and Network Appliances its no longer necessary to multiplex datafiles on different disks, since the storage array

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-23 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
except that in the 5 years I have been using EMC SAN, we have *never* experienced an outage. never had to perform a recovery because of SAN errors. never anything. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 6:05 PM To: Multiple

OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread rgaffuri
I read some posts on here with shared storage such as SAN and Network Appliances its no longer necessary to multiplex datafiles on different disks, since the storage array handles that for you. How do you ensure that control files and redo log files are kept safely apart so that no one disk

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
In my opinion, SAN storage begs the question about whether OFA makes sense anymore. If you can configurte the SAN storage so that all files are striped across all disk, then everything is spread. And if the SAN is mirrored, then just why are we working so hard? EMC SAN disk has such an

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: RE: OFA and Shared Storage we use a single/double file system.. The LUN is made up of multiple physical disks, striped/mirrored across the multiple spindles based on the storage requirements. The disk technology has come a long way. Plus there have been several bench marks/white

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Mladen Gogala
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OFA and Shared Storage I read some posts on here with shared storage such as SAN and Network Appliances its no longer necessary

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: RE: OFA and Shared Storage Greg, I agree that OFA is a great concept for basing your standards on. At least DBA's who manage several servers can find stuff without spending time querying the database to find stuff. But I worry less and less about spreading and balancing files

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Zito
] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OFA and Shared Storage I read some posts on here with shared storage such as SAN and Network Appliances its no longer necessary to multiplex datafiles on different disks

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Zito
, Thomas F Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OFA and Shared Storage In my opinion, SAN storage begs the question about whether OFA makes sense anymore. If you can configurte the SAN storage so that all files are striped across all

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
of list ORACLE-L Subject: OFA and Shared Storage I read some posts on here with shared storage such as SAN and Network Appliances its no longer necessary to multiplex datafiles on different disks, since the storage array handles that for you. How do you ensure that control files

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Odland, Brad
] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OFA and Shared Storage I read some posts on here with shared storage

Re: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Tanel Poder
EMC SAN disk has such an incredible uptime, that worrying about losing things like control files are (almost) a thing of the past. Uptime is only one thing, there are several other errors that might occur, like IO controller errors, memory/CPU glitches and file system corruptions like Matthew

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Craig Munday
Subject: OFA and Shared Storage I read some posts on here with shared storage such as SAN and Network Appliances its no longer necessary to multiplex datafiles on different disks, since the storage array handles that for you. How do you ensure that control files and redo log files are kept

RE: OFA and Shared Storage

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Zito
://www.gridapp.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Munday Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 6:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OFA and Shared Storage Hi, I've tended to have performance problems with RAID-5