Adam> This may be a silly question, and is certainly a religious Adam> debate, but, ah, any reason you must put those Oracle databases Adam> on LUNs? Why not just use NFS?
It's the religon of the Oracle Apps people, and the lack of really good high speed network at the time. I personally think that putting Development Oracle on NFS would be a win win, but I'm not able to win that battle.
And we do have teams with Oracle on NFS over 10G ethernet, so it's possible to do.
My current 7-mode cluster has Oracle on SAN and its painful at times in terms of managing, and the stupidity of the Oracle admins to not re-write queries to be faster or more efficient. But that's religious reasons.
I have to accept reality and just make it work, and SAN FCP Luns are known to work. So if I can do it, great. If not... then I need to do something else.
Which is all a long roundabout way to say I agree with you. :-)
John