Comments on: Steel Cage Blogmatch: How to Configure a SAN

By: Yousef

Yousef — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:02:11 +0000

Brent your girl friend is right.I wish i had studied in medicine.I have started learning SQL since it was in its 6.5 version.now i think it was all waste of time .I would have been happier if I had spent my time on another subject!please do not remove my comment maybe it help someone to find a better way.I am always worry about the future if i loose my job ( for any reason such as economic and the like),I will not be able to find a proper job soon as the vast majority of employers think younger DBA are better than old DBA.and that’s a harsh truth

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:29:02 +0000

Keith – when you say you wouldn’t change your recommendations just because storage improves, does that also mean you wouldn’t change your storage best practices when using SSDs? That seems surprising.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:05:07 +0000

I would be hard pressed to change a standard recommendation just because the SAN has improved. I still don’t manage the SAN and those who do are not necessarily looking to get the highest IOPs. An example, recently where all database files as well as all other files were spread out across all the spindles on the SAN (major vendor not named) worked fine until there were not enough IOPs left due to the rest of the enterprise selling space not IOPs. You will generally run out of IOPs on these types of systems and still have massive amounts of usable space leftover.

By: Vikas Rajput

Vikas Rajput — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:41:48 +0000

Amazing citing I must say… Its like walking through a list of pros and cons on a topic… and what best other than two maestro’s playing it together… Thanks for putting it up.. (and hopefully I will be tuning in more timely in furture, for my better… ;-P )