RE: Solid state disks for Oracle?

I tend to agree.

In a properly administered machine room, there is little physical danger to cables between the units and you can probably count on a good UPS there as well. (I've seen wires running where people could trip over them.)

Still, if you have direct attach SSD you avoid the wires and a bunch of protocol and network overhead. Just make sure the power source of the SSD is not dependent on the machine, so you get the memory to the onboard disk drives in a server power outage, and if you have duplex onboard disks that is as good as raid 1.

On the other hand, as Kevin said earlier in the thread, if you've got a lot of servers you can probably provision them all with "enough" SSD each with a shared box over a certified protocol and thereby minimize the cost per gig of SSD. You preserve the utility of the SSD as long as network latency and bandwidth is sufficient for the load.

That also allows for dynamic allocation of a "free pool" on the shared SSD box for something like extra TEMP when a particular server is getting beat up, or even a medium size tablespace that you know is going to get beaten on heavily by a batch job for a while. Nearly everyone with multiple distinct servers has varying calendar+time of day times of peak load, so it could be a boon to reallocate some SSD on a workshift basis.

Which is best for a given server farm will vary. Even if you use direct attach SSD, you still have to verify that the SSD is certified for the protocol it is emulating to be treated like a disk drive before you put anything more than TEMP on it.

Regards,

mwf

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>>>although I'm not sure I trust nfs for my redo logs.
>>>But yes: assuming it's working fine in your case, that's
>>>definitely one option.
>>>

NFS is really no more than the protocol. NAS is a type of storage. NAS is indeed reasonable for redo logging, and any other Oracle object for that matter--as long as it is OSCP certified.

The fears of NFS should be waning. Should!

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