From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesse, Rich Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:49 AM To: mcdonald.connor@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L Subject: RE: To use SAME or NOT for High End Storage Setup ? Wouldn't a SAN negate all of this mess? Better yet, throw an SVC in between. I like not having to worry (as much!) about storage. ...the problems we are discussing are inherent in a SAN environment. SAN is just a bunch of blocks. Now, SVC gets you closer to a generic QOS environment, but what filesystem goes in the SVC volumes? You still need a CFS if you want to cluster. Note, I realize you don't **need** a CFS for Oracle RAC to cluster. That would leave you with a cluster where only the RDBMS is aware there is a cluster...such a paradigm is a very limited view of clustering. Remember, there are those who religiously hold the position that you don't **need** anything that doesn't come from Oracle...I guess that means no file serving...nothing ... -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l