Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-19 Thread Scott Canaan
Since I started this thread, I thought I'd update everyone on what the problem ended up being. There is a problem with one of the power supplies on the switch in the SAN. The other power supply was not plugged in, so it halted everything occasionally. We plugged the other power supply in, and

RE: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-19 Thread Koivu, Lisa
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Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-19 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
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Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-19 Thread Denny Koovakattu
Hi Scott/All, We have been able to identify the root cause for the issues we had with EMC during the last 2 weeks. The root cause was an issue with EMC PowerPath in a SAN environment where it was not able to resolve alternate paths. We are upgrading from PowerPath Version 1.3 to Version 2.0

RE: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-16 Thread Jesse, Rich
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: EMC Storage Array Issue We ran into a similar issue on 8.1.6.0 for Solaris 32bit and Veritas Volumes. Oracle noted this as a bug in their release and suggest go to 8.1.6.3

RE: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-16 Thread James A
] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From: James A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: EMC Storage Array Issue We ran into a similar issue on 8.1.6.0 for Solaris

Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-16 Thread George Schlossnagle
: EMC Storage Array Issue We ran into a similar issue on 8.1.6.0 for Solaris 32bit and Veritas Volumes. Oracle noted this as a bug in their release and suggest go to 8.1.6.3 or better 8.1.7.3. We are testing this now. So far it seems to work. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http

RE: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-16 Thread Connor McDonald
PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From: James A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: EMC Storage Array Issue We ran into a similar issue on 8.1.6.0

Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread claudio cutelli
Hi, which background process had the problem? because if lgwr, it already write in sync mode ... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 5:33 PM We have implemented a Sun Solaris Cluster (4 machines), connected

Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread Denny Koovakattu
Hi Scott, Recently we had issues with EMC. Last week we started getting IO timeout on one of our frames followed by files being accessed disappearing. We lost controlfiles, redo log files and library files. EMC hasn't been able to tell us why it happended. I would like to hear about

Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Which filesystem/volume manager are you using, if any? That is potentially where you would want to look if the async write queue is getting backed up. Just shutting off async is a terrible suggestion from EMC. I am suprised at them. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On

RE: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Getting an error means having i/o problems. Disabling async_io and increasing slaves means stopping the error but does not mean any performance gain since there are io issues. I think they have to find and trace the time out errors and try to fix them. Are you using raw or cooked (i assume

Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread Scott Canaan
Claudio, I didn't think to mention the process. It is always the ckpt (checkpoint) background process that reports the problem. The database goes down with an ORA-27062. claudio cutelli wrote: Hi, which background process had the problem? because if lgwr, it already write in sync mode

Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread George Schlossnagle
Are you running Veritas as well? There are (I belive still outstanding) bugs with VXFS/VXVM on Oracle which cause these errors. Also, are you seeing high latency right times or experiencing 'hangs' in IO to your symmetrix? I've also seen faulty fiber cabling cause this problem (basically

Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread Anjo Kolk
Claudio, All writes in Oracle are synchronous, they are just fired asynchronously. So even the DBWR writes synchronously. So individual writes are synchronously, they are just fired off asynchronously. Anjo Kolk. claudio cutelli wrote: Hi, which background process had the problem? because

RE: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread James A
We ran into a similar issue on 8.1.6.0 for Solaris 32bit and Veritas Volumes. Oracle noted this as a bug in their release and suggest go to 8.1.6.3 or better 8.1.7.3. We are testing this now. So far it seems to work. -Original Message- Canaan Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:34 AM To:

Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 02:08 PM, Anjo Kolk wrote: Claudio, All writes in Oracle are synchronous, they are just fired asynchronously. So even the DBWR writes synchronously. My dbw uses asynchronous writes I'm writing to qio files, which means that they bypass buffer cache,

Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread George Schlossnagle
It seems silly to get into a semantic argument over this. My point was that Oracle in fact does use asynchronous io as far as the POSIX definition of aio. Just because the ocntrolling thread looks in on the status of the aiocb when it is signaled upon completion doesn't make it any less