Re: SAN devices

From: Eugene Firyago <efiryago_at_bisys.com>
Date: 2000/04/28
Message-ID: <8ec4jq$9pd$1@bob.news.rcn.net>#1/1

Oracle does not prohibit to use "network" drives (NFS and so fourth) for database files allocation however does not recommend it because of reliability and performance issues. Also there are number of solutions (from Legato for instance) featuring backup of Oracle database with "recommended" local disk structure in SAN environment.

Eugene.

"Dave Leather" <dave_leather_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8eblrj$qru$1_at_newsreaderg1.core.theplanet.net...
> I have recently started in a new job where they are using SAN devices to
> store oracle datafiles. These devices are accessed through NFS ( using the
> UDP protocol). Nfsstat reports a number of timeouts, etc . I thought
oracle
> didn't support NFS for datafiles. Am I right ? Is there a looming
> probability for DB corruption ? Should we change to locally connect
storage
> ?
>
>
Received on Fri Apr 28 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT