Easy to set up too. The newer versions (of Oracle) have a script. If you have only a single network out of the db server, you simply replace one of the oracle libraries with the directnfs library (it is part of the script).
If you have more than one network connection from your server to your NetApp, you still would need to configure a simple file defining source/dest paths and mounts.
Very easy. Each oracle process needing to access files gets its own port to communicate on and oracle handles all the appropriate file locking as needed.
Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows(using DirectNFS) are all supposed to perform about the same.
--tmac Tim McCarthy Principal Consultant
RedHat Certified Engineer 804006984323821 (RHEL4) 805007643429572 (RHEL5)
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Jeff Mohler speedtoys.racing@gmail.com wrote:
Direct nfs?
ya..its fast. :)
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Dan Finn dan_j_finn@yahoo.com wrote:
I don't remember what it's called but there's also a way that you can have Oracle manage the NFS mounts directly from inside the app. We did this at my last place and there was a performance improvement. I think it's a newer feature that is part of 10G or 11G, sorry, don't know the Oracle stuff that well.
That being said, it seems like DBAs are always complaining about performance but I'm never able to see it when testing from my end.
From: Jeff Mohler speedtoys.racing@gmail.com To: "Roy Choudhury, Bikash" Bikash.Choudhury@netapp.com Cc: Mailing Lists toasters@teaparty.net Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:04 PM Subject: Re: Oracle (RHEL 5.7) on NFS (Ontap 8.1RC2) - complains of write
*nod*
Dont work much in the DB area..was not sure. :)
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Roy Choudhury, Bikash Bikash.Choudhury@netapp.com wrote:
There is no "directio mount option in Linux.
Bikash
On Mar 28, 2012, at 4:54 PM, "Jeff Mohler" speedtoys.racing@gmail.com wrote:
I thought oracle over NFS wanted 'directio' as a mount option?
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Fletcher Cocquyt fcocquyt@stanford.edu wrote:
Hi, I'm not seeing write performance issues on the OS (throughput tests on the command line are > 100Mb/sec)
But Oracle is complaining about long commit times for the Netapp NFS mount with the following options:
rw,noatime,bg,hard,nointr,tcp,nfsvers=3,timeo=600,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 (matches what I see in Oracle and Netapp docs)
I'm working with the DBA to see if the Oracle tuning is optimal, but thought I'd poll this list for any nuggets of tuning Oracle on Netapp NFS
And the disk busy on this aggregate is only 10% - and the CPU reads 40-50%
thanks!
Fletcher
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