Folks, I am working on implementing "Shared Application Filesystem" architecture with Oracle e-Business Applications suite for a multi-node, mission critical system. What this means is that instead of installing Oracle binaries (Application code, Oracle RDBMS software code, Application Server code) separately on each tier node, I would like to install it on a shared storage so that all particiating nodes can share it. I am looking at the following options for sharing the storage: - NAS (EMC Celera) - NFS I have already exlpored the EMC option and now I am researching on the NFS option. I'm specially interesting in the following: - The security aspect of NFS: How secure it is and can it be made secured. What are the risks associated with using it. How is the security different from that offered by NAS devices? - NFS Performance and reliability: Configuring NFS to use the private gigabit network instead of the public network to improve performance. Use IPMP for the network failover. - Reliability: I understand that NAS devices offer multiple heads or data-movers to provide failure resilience. But if I use the database server as the NFS Server then this becomes a moot point as if the database server fails then the application will become unavailable any way.
I would appreciate any feedback. If someone is already using this architecture/configuration then I would appreciate the experience. Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
