I thought that Oracle datafiles over NFS was neither recommended nor
supported.  Has this changed?

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Dunbar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:30 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Net App Filer
> 
> 
> Gunnar Berglund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 
> Friday, September
> 05, 2003 5:24 AM said;
> 
> > is anyone using Net App Filer -products with Oracle environment.
> 
> Yup.  Hosts a horde of databases for a medium sized outfit - 
> pehaps 3000
> employees, 24/7 manufacturing.
> 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I like it but I'm not the DBA.  It works for us, but might 
> not be right for
> a bigger company.  That said, most companies in the US ARE 
> our size .. or
> smaller.
> 
> > Advantages
> 
> Snapshot.  Best damn way to backup a box yet.  We 'snap' at 12 hour
> intervals, it's a breeze to restore.  Off course, we still have tapes.
> 
> It's Unix, underneath.
> 
> Web Mgt interface makes doing admin chores easy.
> 
> Just Works - mount the Filer drives as NFS mounts from the host.
> 
> Support; Net App knows about problems at the same time we do. 
>  A few times
> our POC has gotten to work and found out about potential 
> problems from a
> chipper voice mail from Net App.
> 
> > Disadvantages
> 
> It was difficult getting to know the Filer at first - we had 
> a difficult
> time wrapping our heads around the whole idea.  Our DBA was 
> .. dubious at
> best about the prospect.  I think we've won him over.
> 
> ~brian
> 
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