Unfortunately, trying to convince Oracle DBAs to try something new and better than the way they've been doing things for decades is very, very difficult.
If you can, I suggest creating an eval environment or POC using NFS for Oracle. Oracle as a company ran petabytes of databases on NetApp NFS for many years until they purchased Exadata and have been migrating. Oracle on NetApp NFS works beautifully. It would really benefit the DBAs at your organization to explore the possibility. Can you arrange any meetings with them with NetApp Oracle experts and with Oracle's own people to help them feel comfortable with the technology? Show them what advanced features they can take advantage of (like recovering a multi-TB database from a snapshot in seconds) and maybe they'll change their minds. -Adam On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Christina Plummer <[email protected]>wrote: > My company is in the process of planning a new data center, and is looking > to avoid the cost associated with traditional fibre channel storage. The > original plan was use 10Gb NFS for everything (mostly ESXi hosts, plus some > big Oracle RAC servers on RHEL6). But after doing some more research, the > database guys are balking at NFS and want to stick with block devices. So, > that is leading us back to FCoE for the Oracle databases (they'll stick > with NFS for the ESXi hosts). > > They apparently attempted FCoE about 4 years ago when the converged > network adapters were new, and ran into a number of issues (I don't know > what they were). I've personally worked a lot with traditional FC on RHEL, > but haven't ever done anything with FCoE. Our network gear is Cisco, the > storage is NetApp. > > Does anyone have any comments, experiences or things to watch out for? > > Thanks, > Christina > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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