Re: SAN evaluation
- From: "Andrew Kerber" <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Dennis Williams" <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:10:09 -0500
Is the term you are looking for MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures?)
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Dennis Williams <
oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tom,
>
> The one thing I didn't see in your list is your reliability/downtime
> requirements. A SAN is a critical, expensive, shared resource, so any
> downtime has wide-ranging effects. There is a SAN term for this which I
> can't recall at the moment, but basically you are asking whether the SAN has
> to go offline for any reason, such as maintenance, upgrades, etc. You can
> save a lot of money if your requirements aren't so critical, but then you
> may suffer more downtime.
>
> Dennis Williams
>
>
>
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