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Personally, I would strongly encourage you to not use iSCSI. Instead, look at using Oracle's NFS implementation. It is fairly easy to setup. Give it
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Tim, It has been our experience that even if there are multiple network connections on the server, when it makes an NFS connection to the NetApp, it
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This is *not* your ordinary NFS nor is this pNFS. This is a NFS stack that ORACLE uses. Oracle's Direct NFS. It is very stable abd better than a stand
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Tim, I'll take a look at the link and speak with the group. I'll see if we can get some type of testing set up. If you are running your database on
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I would have to be doing DR to worry about DR ;) SImple Mirroring. Hot backup. Take a snapshot. Exit Hot backup. Push mirror. Same as you would with
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Jeff, Regarding multiple network connections, you're correct. I'm not sure how Oracle's NFS handles it, but if you're using LACP to aggregate ports
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LACP is certainly not needed on the client, nor should it be used. ORACLE's DNFS will distribute across all paths it has been told about. On the NetA
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Well, thatâs not entirely correct. You can also have round robin LACP which utilizes all ports in the channel to the same extent, or you can use Et
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I just spoke with one of the team that supports the DBAs. Apparently the DBAs were adamant about not using NFS of any sort. I'm guessing we'll have
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Work with your netapp team to get a reference account for using oracle on nfs - I think oracle internal IT is doing it. We had same issue with our sr
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Jack, It is a similar thing here. They are old school and not that inclined to change :-) We may be able to get them there, but not in the time fra
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And please do not forget to mention that you absolutely need to provide: 10 LUNs 50GB each on RAID-786 13 LUNs 38.2GB each on RAID-32 9.5 LUNs 18
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I've met the same solid resistance from some DBAs to running Oracle on NFS. It works a treat, but I appreciate sometimes it's not your choice. iSCSI'
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Hi Jeff, This is neto from Brazil How are you? Please let me know how I can help. I have a lot of good stuff at my blog: blogs.netapp.com/databases
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Alexander, Nice reply :-) They are not quite that bad since they don't get that far down into the storage aspect. Peta, Thanks for the reply. I kn
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Your DBAs may have a lot of interest in Oracle DNFS because it is an "Oracle product" and should be well supported by the Oracle support team that the
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Ryan, Thanks for the information. It sounds like we may have a window of opportunity to have them check out dnfs. How are you doing the backups of
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Hey there, we're getting a new FAS8020 during the next weeks and my task now is to move all the data on our current 7 mode filers onto the new one. I
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Hi. If you have access to fieldportal.netapp.com you can read Clustered Data ONTAP Unified Transition Methodology Playbook for NetApp Partners https:/
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Hi, thanks, I was aware of the availability of snapmirror but thatâs not nondisruptive as far as I know â' but Iâll have a look. Thanks,
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