I am running both SQL & SME on my filers. I think you may have misunderstood the best practices from NA. You have to have the volumes created first, then the luns go within the volumes. Best practice as far as my experience is that you want to have different volumes for different hosts, not necessarily for different databases. Depends what you are doing with the databases and whether they are fairly static or not. Also, if you need to stay with raid 4 you should still upgrade to 7.x OnTap for the flexability of changing things in the future. You do not need to go raid DP with any of the 7x versions.

Bob

Robert Kleinbrahm

Senior Network Engineer

First Republic Bank

San Francisco, CA. 94111

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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of sam silva Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:33 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Ontap 6.5.x and snapmanager

Hi All

I am planning ti install snapmanaer for SQL and snapmanager for exchange on FAS270 filers. As I will be using traditional volumes, I cant afford to have one volume per lun per database as indicated in best practices. Are you guys using snapmanaer for SQL and snapmanager for exchange, how have you set it up? Also any tips on snapshots using snapmanger willbe helpful.

Thx

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