How to avoid disk contention when using SAN

Posted in 2003

Ravi Thero — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:26:12 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>Hey everyone,</DIV> <DIV>     How would you avoid disk contention in an enviroment that uses SAN.  I mean how do I make sure that my dbspaces are sitting on separate disks when using SAN ?   Thanks.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ravi. </DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>MSN 8 helps <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMQENUS/2752??PS=">ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES.</a> Get 2 months FREE*.</html>

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Colin Bull — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 07:57:15 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Ravi Thero spoke and it cameout gobbledegook - > > <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>Hey everyone,</DIV> > <DIV>     How would you avoid disk > contention in an enviroment that uses SAN.  I mean how > do I make sure that my dbspaces are sitting on separate disks > when using SAN ?   Thanks.  </DIV> > <DIV> </DIV> > <DIV>Ravi. </DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>MSN 8 helps <a > href="http://g.msn.com/8HMQENUS/2752??PS=">ELIMINATE E-MAIL > VIRUSES.</a> Get 2 months FREE*.</html> > When you create your storage units use JBOD (just a bunch of disks) rather than RAID and put each DBspace on a separate disk. But this is one of the reasons for getting a SAN ! Still you can usually mirror individual disks so that is one benefit. Please do notpost HTML. It id difficult to read :-( Colin Bull c.bull@videonetworks.com

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