Hemant, Group,
Could not resist: here is my 0.02 Euro.
(0.05 by the time I re-read it)
Start with a Disclaimer:
Limited SAN experience:
HP-(ex cmpq) storageworks (EVA3000?) and
Dell/EMC/Clarion only.
Here is How I try to approach SAN:
Me, the DBA, wants;
- focus on mountpoints
- equal-eve
Unfortunately, we are always adding a new database.
The new SAN commission in June-July was supposed to hold 6 databases.
Then it became 7 databases in August. Now it is 8 this month and the
count will go up to 9 databases by December.
As the SAN Storage Admin and Unix SA roles are handled by two
Hemant --
I just came off a gig where I was the storage/Unix/DBA geek, and, in my
opinion, while the level of expertise *does* need to be higher, *and
different*, for in that environment, it's all front-end. Once you have the
database configured and the backup and recovery scripts written and tes
I would still rank undo & redologs together
with regular data because they're crucial for survivability and consistency
of information...
Tanel.
If there is a policy to place all corporate data on
the shared storage (NAS), then surely redo, RBS/UNDO etc should no
Title: Re: Top (<=10) Issues faced by Oracle DBAs Deploying in a SAN/NAS
NAS mistakes:
Not dedicating two (or more) network segments to NAS access only, segregated from other uses
Should you just plug a NAS into a general-purpose LAN and start connecting servers to it?
Why would more than
As an Oracle DBA , I have no problems putting my Databases on SANs [yes,
we have seperate SANs, from different vendors].
However, I find that Storage and Unix Admin skill requirements for a SAN
seem to be higher. When Clustered servers access the SAN, it seems to
be even more difficult to get an a
Hi, gaja
I post the feedback to list and hope others can also cc a copy to the list so that
we share our experience.
My small database runs on a small basic san: two database on V880/E4500 and two
standby server , share a storage which is consistent of 4*Sun T3, with 2 FC-switch.
