On Fri, Feb 29, 2008, Simon Wong wrote: > > .. why do you think this would be a good idea? > > because the instance of Windows will be running under VMware server (or > Workstation) and I like to keep the data outside the VM where it can > also be shared with other instances of the app. > > What are you thinking?
That I'd be asking Oracle and your application vendor whether your proposed setup is fully supported. Backending databases onto random network attached storage is a very bad idea unless you Know What You Are Doing; and if you're on here asking then you probably don't fall into that category. The other poster who runs Oracle off a netapp filer is surprising to me, as I've had no end of issues with databases on network attached storage, but -my- experiences haven't been with Oracle on Netapp NFS, just MySQL on Linux NFS. In any case, knowing what I know about the wildly different flavours of NFS implementations, I'd not be putting a critical SQL DB on it (or heck, even hash tables with shared writers!) unless my vendor told me it was ok. In short: Ask your vendors. Thats what you're paying them for. :) Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
