Hi,
I'm new to the SAN industry and have been tasked with building a SAN. The powers that be have thrown hardware at me and said..."ok, now build a SAN for us!" We'll it didn't happen quite like that but that's were I'm at today. I know that I've probably bitten off more than I can chew, but I have to swallow or I'm gonna choke!
So...I have all the hardware...(Fibre switches....storage....HBA's...hosts, etc...)
But what I'm really perplexed about is what software do I need? Do I need a SAN filesystem? Is there a specific SAN filesystem that would do the job for clustered Oracle doing OLTP? Do I really need a SAN Management system? Is it smart to build a seperate host to manage the SAN?
If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appriciate it..
Todd
I'm new to the SAN industry and have been tasked with building a SAN. The powers that be have thrown hardware at me and said..."ok, now build a SAN for us!" We'll it didn't happen quite like that but that's were I'm at today. I know that I've probably bitten off more than I can chew, but I have to swallow or I'm gonna choke!
So...I have all the hardware...(Fibre switches....storage....HBA's...hosts, etc...)
But what I'm really perplexed about is what software do I need? Do I need a SAN filesystem? Is there a specific SAN filesystem that would do the job for clustered Oracle doing OLTP? Do I really need a SAN Management system? Is it smart to build a seperate host to manage the SAN?
If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appriciate it..
Todd