Re: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-14 Thread Darrell Landrum
Scott (and others), I apologize, all I was given regarding this document was a hard copy and based on confidentiality footers, I'm don't think I'm allowed to distribute it. However, if you're on an EMC system now, I'd call or e-mail your EMC rep and ask for it. If it works as well as

Re: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-10 Thread Chuck Hamilton
We have had I/O issues in the last few months on EMC disks that were corrected by physically relocating filesystems. With no other changes we saw response times cut in half by simply splitting the filesystems from busy databases onto different physical devices within the SAN. - Original

RE: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-08 Thread Brian Dunbar
-Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L NetApp SAN? My understanding of NetApps was that is strictly NAS: Network Attached Storage. Basically, JBOD with NIC. SAN's offer quite a few more management and configuration options

Re: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-07 Thread Chuck Hamilton
SAN is fine as long as you keep track of what's mapping to what physical disks. I for one don't believe the SAN vendors that say their caching takes care of performance for you and you don't need to worry about where data is stored physically. Place datafiles the same way you would for local

Re: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-07 Thread Darrell Landrum
Amen! For several years we heard from EMC reps, don't worry about it, don't worry about it, then recently we we're given a white paper from EMC on striping for Oracle. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/03 09:43AM SAN is fine as long as you keep track of what's mapping to what physical disks. I for one

Re: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Stefick
Darrell, Could I have a copy of that white paper if you still have it? Thanks, Scott At 08:19 AM 3/7/03 -0800, you wrote: Amen! For several years we heard from EMC reps, don't worry about it, don't worry about it, then recently we we're given a white paper from EMC on striping for Oracle.

Re: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-07 Thread Darrell Landrum
I'm pretty sure I only recieved a hard copy (I'm not in the office to check), but they publish a lot of pdf documents on their site. I'll see if I can locate it there and send a URL. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/03 10:55AM Darrell, Could I have a copy of that white paper if you still have it?

Re: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Stefick
That's great! Thanks a ton. -Scott At 10:44 AM 3/7/03 -0800, you wrote: I'm pretty sure I only recieved a hard copy (I'm not in the office to check), but they publish a lot of pdf documents on their site. I'll see if I can locate it there and send a URL. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/03 10:55AM

RE: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-07 Thread Spears, Brian
We ran ORacle on NETapps... about a 100 Production Databases and I spent a massive amount (6months) of time verifying that Certain applications were not hindered by the Netapp SAN... There was alot of doubt buy everyone... but in the end it was clear the San preformed fine..and all the glitches

RE: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-07 Thread Jared . Still
NetApp SAN? My understanding of NetApps was that is strictly NAS: Network Attached Storage. Basically, JBOD with NIC. SAN's offer quite a few more management and configuration options than NAS. Jared Spears, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/2003 12:19 PM

Re: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-06 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Perhaps you'll enjoy James Morle's Sane SAN paper on www.OakTable.net - if you haven't seen it already. Best regards, Mogens Scott Stefick wrote: Hello, We are currently spec'ing out hardware for our new ERP system. It is either going to be Peoplesoft or Oracle. We are also debating on