Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation HP SAN, FC+SATA, ORACLE

2007-09-27 Thread Bruce Shaw
>> 1. My understanding of the situation is having a zpool on a single LUN precludes some ZFS technology such as self-healing, hence is not best practice. Right? >For important data and when you have only one LUN (eg. arrays) using copies is a way to manage your redundancy policies for each file

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation HP SAN, FC+SATA, ORACLE

2007-09-27 Thread Richard Elling
Bruce Shaw wrote: > I've been presented with the following scenario: > > - this is to be used primarily for ORACLE, including usage of ORACLE > RMAN backups (to disk) > - HP SAN (will NOT do JBOD) > - 256 Gb disk available on high-speed Fibre Channel disk, currently on > one LUN (1) I presume th

[zfs-discuss] Recommendation HP SAN, FC+SATA, ORACLE

2007-09-26 Thread Bruce Shaw
I've been presented with the following scenario: - this is to be used primarily for ORACLE, including usage of ORACLE RMAN backups (to disk) - HP SAN (will NOT do JBOD) - 256 Gb disk available on high-speed Fibre Channel disk, currently on one LUN (1) - 256 Gb disk available on slower-speed SATA