I jumped with joy when I added, after almost 1.5 years, a 'second' 2 GB
drive to a system that ran a ~15 bed Hospital in Arkansas. Till then the
sole 2 GB internal drive supported the database (400 MB), O/S, Application
code, Oracle (7.1.x) and all....
As they said (Sales & Marketing in our company then), what it costs is more
important than what it does..
- Kirti
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Carmichael [SMTP:carmichr_at_hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 8:46 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: What should sys admins know about Oracle?
>
> I am being given a "single" terabyte drive
>
> And I am expected to jump for joy. Sigh.
>
>
> >From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_bcbso.com>
> >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >Subject: Re: What should sys admins know about Oracle?
> >Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:19:31 -0800
> >
> >On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Jonathan Gennick wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 1. Oracle needs lots of physically separate disks. Please
> > > don't replace 9 4-gig drives with one 36 gig drive<g>.
> >
> >Good luck getting it. We are purchasing the new 'Shark'
> >Enterprise Storage Systems from IBM.
> >
> >The smallest physical drive available is 18 Gig.
> >
> >The only configuration allowed on them is RAID 5.
> >
> >It is impossible to get a consistent stripe width
> >across all RAID's.
> >
> >RAID 5 and cache are becoming the storage panacea.
> >
> >Jared
> >
> > >
> > > 2. Mount points used for Oracle should correspond to
> > > physically separate drives, or at least I should know when
> > > they don't. I once had a sys admin give me 3 mount points to
> > > use for control files, and it turned out that they all
> > > pointed to the same drive. I had a difficult time explaining
> > > to him why that was a bad thing.
> > >
> > > So what else? What else do system administrators "need" to
> > > know about Oracle?
Received on Wed Jun 14 2000 - 21:43:25 CDT
