Re: [SAGE] Experience with Emulex HBA software

[Adam and Christine Levin <levins@westnet.com>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Doug Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Adam and Christine Levin wrote:
> > also because VxFS is faster than UFS.  The SAN is small, consisting of
> > just our Oracle machine, data warehouse and one other incidental
> > machine that, among other things, will handle backups of the Oracle
> > data to tape.  Getting VxFS on Oracle means getting VxFS on *all* the
> > machines, which we may not want to do precisely because of the expense.
>
> you confused me here with two seemingly contradictory statements.
>
> On the one hand, you imply that there is only one oracle machine
> "just our oracle machine"
> On the other,
> "getting VxFS on Oracle means getting VxFS on *all* the machines"
>
> If indeed you only have one Oracle machine and you wish to run Oracle
> on top of VxFS, then you only need one VxFS license.

Sorry, didn't mean to confuse.  What meant was that our SAN is not
enterprise wide -- it consists of the Oracle machine, the data warehouse
machine, and one other machine for dumping Oracle data to tape.  All three
of those machines will require Veritas in order to read cloned snapshots
of the Oracle data.

If we stick with UFS, all three of those machines will be able to natively
read the data.

-Adam