Just an addendum from field experience.

SD on Windows platform is really a great add-on (creation, provisioning, resizing, snapshots, mount as r/w snaps and others such backup/mirror controls on software controlled by Snapmanager and more)

On Linux/Unix worlds I found it always almost complex to set up and to put it on work trying to obtain the same as in Windows.

SMO? I think that both on Windows (where i.e. SMO with RAC instances is not supported and working!!!) and on Linux/Unix platform is absolutely unuseful: you can get the same and easily with a couple of scripts! On Solaris SD and SMO have been a real nightmare J

Bye,

Da: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] Per conto di Romeo Theriault
Inviato: venerdì 9 aprile 2010 07:38
A: Page, Jeremy
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Oggetto: Re: What exactly does SnapDrive buy me?

Am I missing something?

No, sounds like you have it about right. Also, unless you have snapmanager for Oracle you're going to want/need to script putting you DB in hotbackup mode anyway, to get a consistent snapshot of it for mirroring off-site. Depending on your platform, OS and drivers you use you may also be out of luck with getting snapdrive to even work. I've been unable to get it to work on our Solaris infrastructure because the FCP drivers we use aren't supported by Netapp and don't work with snapdrive. It just segfaults. So even if you want to use it make sure your stuff is supported by it. But in the end I've found that I made some scripts which do the job more than adequately for us.

--
Romeo Theriault
System Administrator
Information Technology Services