I am working for a medium size company. Our hardware department just purchased PowerVault nx400 2tb raid5 space but don't have expertise to setup the server as this is our first SAN device.
I am not going to setup the machine but responsible to make decision about setup.... (scary...right?)
We primarily bought this server for Oracle DB but our total data files are below 20gb (very small.....).... I am thinking about using this machine for all various in house storages (as this is a heavy duty storage solution compare to our current setup)..
I want to make sure oracle data files are kept in seperate location where other program doesn't interfere with it and it can have its own autobackup run peridically and live data backup to another server....
is it a good idea to partition this kind of server so different kind of data can be managed in its own partition?
Is it a good idea to utilize this machine for oracle and sqlserver and ms.access databases storage and may be some file storage (worried about the performance affect with too many data or it doesn't matter much)?
what is the best way to manage backups (as this is only 1 hard drive failure safe)?
Can you guys pls point me to some good documentations or suggest me some of the best practices to utilize best out of this machine?
Thank you guys and sorry for this newbie related big questions.... (i have been reading since last two days but not moving any where)
-Sam
I am not going to setup the machine but responsible to make decision about setup.... (scary...right?)
We primarily bought this server for Oracle DB but our total data files are below 20gb (very small.....).... I am thinking about using this machine for all various in house storages (as this is a heavy duty storage solution compare to our current setup)..
I want to make sure oracle data files are kept in seperate location where other program doesn't interfere with it and it can have its own autobackup run peridically and live data backup to another server....
is it a good idea to partition this kind of server so different kind of data can be managed in its own partition?
Is it a good idea to utilize this machine for oracle and sqlserver and ms.access databases storage and may be some file storage (worried about the performance affect with too many data or it doesn't matter much)?
what is the best way to manage backups (as this is only 1 hard drive failure safe)?
Can you guys pls point me to some good documentations or suggest me some of the best practices to utilize best out of this machine?
Thank you guys and sorry for this newbie related big questions.... (i have been reading since last two days but not moving any where)
-Sam