James We use Shark internally, connected to AIX, Solaris and Windows servers. Much better than Hitachi IMO. The caching mechanism is similar to EMC, and the IO performance is excellent, even with RAID5. Actually I am told it is RAID-S, but it is all a black box to me. I just know that my DSS DW DB's load faster with the Shark than they do with ordinary raw volumes on SCSI. HTH.
Regards: Ferenc Mantfeld Senior Performance Engineer Siebel Performance Engineering Melbourne, 3000, VIC, Australia Only Robinson Crusoe had all his work done by Friday -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2002 9:22 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L DBA's Anyone using IBM's Shark storage solution? What is you're opinion? I understand it uses raid 5 :-( with a big cache in front. I've talked to a couple of DBA's that are using them and they think they are great and haven't experienced any problems with poor performance (including write speed). We've had a bad experience with Hitachi raid 5, salesman said it was great so the boss bought it. Thanks ...JIM... -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: James Howerton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ferenc Mantfeld INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
