Re: ZFS & Oracle

  • From: "Ghassan Salem" <salem.ghassan@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: joe@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:47:16 +0200

There are things on sun's website about zfs with DBs, it does not seem to be
good at handling this type of I/O.

On 9/24/07, Joe Frohne <joe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Have you or your admins had the time to figure out why it's performing
> poorly?
>
> There are some docs around, but not much yet.
>
> I think this all points towards it being something nice to look at in a
> development/test environment.  We are really looking at it for the
> capability to do snapshots in hopes that we can move our test
> environment off of our EMC cabinet to drop the maintenance cost of that.
>
> Thank you to all who replied!
>
> Joe Frohne
>
> Connor McDonald wrote:
> > One of the servers here is running Oracle, and the sys admins (keen as
> they
> > are) thought "Gee, there's a cool idea...lets go ZFS"...at which point
> > performance has dropped through the floor.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Joe Frohne
> > Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2007 11:08 PM
> > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: ZFS & Oracle
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I searched the archives for general ZFS information and found a few
> threads
> > about ZFS and snapshots.  These threads are about a year old.  I am
> > wondering if there is any general impression of running Oracle 10.2.xunder
> > ZFS today.  Are people doing it successfully?  What are the good, the
> bad
> > and the ugly of running Oracle under ZFS?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joe Frohne
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