Rahul,
We're heading out onto the SAN route as well from the external storage
world. Right now we use a number of HP-UX servers connected to one of two EMC
symmetrix arrays for datafiles and one of two NetApp Filers for archive redo
logs. They work well, but the EMC's are expensive and every now and then, like
last year, you end up with a "forklift" upgrade. The NetApps are cheaper and
are suppose to work for Oracle datafiles, but we've had a myriad of problems
getting it to work. The idea of a SAN is that the actual disks can come from a
number of vendors and the SAN implementation handles the differences so that you
& I only see available disk space. And from Oracle's point of view all of the
disks are local, not remote or NFS mounted or NAS or any of that other weird
stuff out there. I would not classify it as much as a cost, but flexibility
issue.
Dick Goulet
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Author: "Rahul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 3/12/2003 12:33 AM
list, one of our clietns are going to by SAN, the current oracle databases take
around
36GB of storage.... i dnt understand there reason to go for SAN, i sugguested to
buy an external storage
box instead. How can i justify my desicion ? (cost of not the factor)
TIA
rahul
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