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Who has experience Cloning LUN's with EMC Clariion
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We are thinking of purchasing the EMC Clariion CX 600. We are going to store our databases on it. We are told that its easy to make a clone of a LUN. We have a 200 GB database that we want to clone very hour. The cloned database will be used as read-only database for clients. Has anyone experience with this. It should be fast (less then a minute) and reliable. Thanks, Louis Banens |
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Louis wrote:
Hi, We are thinking of purchasing the EMC Clariion CX 600. We are going to store our databases on it. We are told that its easy to make a clone of a LUN. We have a 200 GB database that we want to clone very hour. The cloned database will be used as read-only database for clients. Has anyone experience with this. It should be fast (less then a minute) and reliable. You will not get a true clone of that amount of data, it would have to be a copy-on-write snapshot, in which case make sure you order SnapView as part of the package which is the Clariion snapshot option. Part from thaat it's pretty straightforward, though you may have to flush the DB buffer caches before each snapshot, edpends a bit on what the readonly clients will do with the data. -- Nik Simpson |
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We have a 200 GB database that we want to clone very hour. The cloned
database will be used as read-only database for clients. Has anyone Can database server's transaction-log-based replication help? MSSQLServer had this since 1995, and I expect Oracle has this too for a long. How aggressively is your data updated? I would prefer the database-server-based solution, not the RAID-box-based. It will preserve the transaction boundaries at least. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation http://www.storagecraft.com |
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Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
We have a 200 GB database that we want to clone very hour. The cloned database will be used as read-only database for clients. Has anyone Can database server's transaction-log-based replication help? MSSQLServer had this since 1995, and I expect Oracle has this too for a long. How aggressively is your data updated? I would prefer the database-server-based solution, not the RAID-box-based. It will preserve the transaction boundaries at least. An array based Snapshot integrated with the host OS & applications will also accomplish this, i.e. quiesce the DB, flush any uncommited writes and issue the snapshot. A good example of this approach would be W2K03 and SQLServer along with a VSS aware storage array. -- Nik Simpson |
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An array based Snapshot integrated with the host OS & applications will also
accomplish this, i.e. quiesce the DB, flush any uncommited writes and issue the snapshot. A good example of this approach would be W2K03 and SQLServer along with a VSS aware storage array. Are all database servers aware of this? what of other OSes? -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation http://www.storagecraft.com |
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Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
An array based Snapshot integrated with the host OS & applications will also accomplish this, i.e. quiesce the DB, flush any uncommited writes and issue the snapshot. A good example of this approach would be W2K03 and SQLServer along with a VSS aware storage array. Are all database servers aware of this? what of other OSes? It's a good bet that all the DB vendors on Windows either have or will make their DB VSS aware as part of revving those applications to make full use of W2K03. As to other OS platforms, there is no standard I/F for accessing snapshots, Windows is breaking new ground with hardware independent functions like VSS. -- Nik Simpson |
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W2K03. As to other OS platforms, there is no standard I/F for accessing
snapshots, Windows is breaking new ground with hardware independent functions like VSS. Too bad UNIXen will not send some signal to processes while making a snapshot. Also VSS is w2k3 only, lots of people are running older NTs. Nevertheless, the technology is great and can support nearly all possible RAID boxes - the vendor must just write a COM EXE which will send the SCSI CDBs to a box in response to VSS calls. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation http://www.storagecraft.com |
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Can database server's transaction-log-based replication help? MSSQLServer had this since 1995, and I expect Oracle has this too for a long. How aggressively is your data updated? I would prefer the database-server-based solution, not the RAID-box-based. It will preserve the transaction boundaries at least. An array based Snapshot integrated with the host OS & applications will also accomplish this, i.e. quiesce the DB, flush any uncommited writes and issue the snapshot. A good example of this approach would be W2K03 and SQLServer along with a VSS aware storage array. Be aware that the snapshot function will still put load on your original LUNs. The Snaphot is just a bunch of pointers to the original data blocks. As a result, reading from a snapshot will have cache and performance implications on your production environment. Also be aware there are some serious bugs in Power Path 3.0.5 on Win2K3. --T ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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"Nik Simpson" wrote in message .. .
Louis wrote: Hi, We are thinking of purchasing the EMC Clariion CX 600. We are going to store our databases on it. We are told that its easy to make a clone of a LUN. We have a 200 GB database that we want to clone very hour. The cloned database will be used as read-only database for clients. Has anyone experience with this. It should be fast (less then a minute) and reliable. You will not get a true clone of that amount of data, it would have to be a copy-on-write snapshot, in which case make sure you order SnapView as part of the package which is the Clariion snapshot option. Part from thaat it's pretty straightforward, though you may have to flush the DB buffer caches before each snapshot, edpends a bit on what the readonly clients will do with the data. Actually, this is no longer correct. SnapView 2.0 on the CX600 now has true cloning capability, along with the traditional copy-on-write snapshot capability. - Sean |
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