RE: Installation of the Oracle software on the SAN or not

I'm with Tom..
We place the binaries on a LUN from the EMC frame.. Configure the resource groups to fail that file system over to the secondary node in the event of a failure.. Less "hassle" in the clustered environments.

Found that keeping multiple local installs in sync was cumbersome when the environments were clustered..

greg

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From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:10 AM
To: 'lucdemanche_at_gmail.com'; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Installation of the Oracle software on the SAN or not

Luc,

There really is no reason to *not* use the SAN for Oracle software. One benefit of doing so is that, if you are planning on failing the EMC disk over to another server, the Oracle software goes with it. The only negative is cost - EMC disk is much more expensive than internal disk.

I have implemented it both ways and saw no impact on the database at all.

Hope this helps.

Tom

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From: Luc Demanche [mailto:lucdemanche_at_gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:04 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Installation of the Oracle software on the SAN or not

Hi gurus,

We are in the process to implement a EMC SAN. What the pros and cons about installating the oracle software on the SAN or on
the local disks ?

Thank you
Luc

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