HP P2000 FC G3 use and Oracle VM

Has anyone successfully used a HP P2000 G3 Fiber Channel storage appliance with Oracle VM 3.x? Oracle VM 2.x?
All Fiber Channel devices supposedly work, but would be nice to know if someone actually has this device working.

user897654321 wrote:
What would happen in the event the controller who owns the LUN went down with your change? I want to make sure if one controller goes down, then all of my LUNs are still accessible from the other controller (99.99% uptime is our goal).The paths to the other controller are always there. But they are not preffered ones and are not used. Example output from multipath -ll:
3600c0ff00011214450eb604e01000000 dm-0 HP,P2000G3 FC/iSCSI
size=19G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=50 status=active
| |- 1:0:0:1 sdb 8:16 active ready running
| `- 2:0:0:1 sdj 8:144 active ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=10 status=enabled
|- 1:0:1:1 sdf 8:80 active ready running
`- 2:0:1:1 sdn 8:208 active ready running
Paths sdf and sdn are to the other controller and become active, if the controller who owns the LUN goes down.
Jan

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> Who could provide some info on the following:
>
> 1 - Are there major functionalities that Oracle provides that MaxDB doesn't?
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>
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>
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>
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>
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import java.io.*;
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I understand what you are saying...
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table@oracleServer o,
table@microsoftSQLServer m
where o.F1=m.F1
group by o.F1,o.F2, m.F1,m.F2;
These are 2 different systems (hardware & software) which actually do the same job, they produce transactions for a common business entity. Kind of, both sell tickets for the same ABC ferry company.
I can not put them side by side on the dashboard, as I need to aggregate the data and present it maybe in a Oracle BI Report for Accounting and Financial reconciliation purposes.
The truth is, as it is. I can't change it, is too late.
I have to device a way to harvest both systems as they are. I don't want to move around data. I thought looking at Oracle BI I could write SQL against multiple Data Sources. I am struggling to find a way. As it seems that it can "SQL query" 1 data source at a time.
I have been hinted on another forum (OracleTURK) to use Oracle Transparent Gateways and Generic Connectivity. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14232/toc.htm
Shame, I have to pay licenses for OWB and Oracle Transparent Gateways. I thought DB vendors can do better. Why do I have to pay to access the other 50% of the market.
I can understand the performance implications this might have. Because of it I might even be forced at the end to move data (ETL) into a separate database, slice it into partitions and manage it that way. Pitty because currenlty I only need one report out of these systems but seems like will be dear to get.
Thank you for all your help.
Kubilay

Can We use FDM as ETL tool between SQL and Oracle

I want to use FDM as ETL tool between SQL and Oracle. Can it be possible. I didn,t found any target adapter for oracle database.My source system is SQL and Target system is Oracle database.
Rahul
Edited by: user12190125 on Nov 9, 2009 4:23 AM

Rahul,
I believe this is possible to do, but not an easy one and there are a few considerations:
How much data are you processing? FDM has a lot of features which support the business process. While this is great for users and audit trail etc. it slows down performance if you want to process a lot of data. It also depends on the type of mappings you use (Like mappings are slower than explicit mappings).
How familiar are you with VBScript? There is no explicit target adapter for Oracle, but there is a data mart adapter which can be used for anything. You have to implement everything yourself though, mainly the Export and Load actions. In there you will also have to handle the the connections to the MSSQL and Oracle databases.
Check the data mart adapter and see if you feel comfortable with defining the vb code in there. There are reasons for and against this approach. ODI would probably be the better choice unless you really need to have FDM's process support.
Regards,
Matt

HP P2000 FC G3 use and Oracle VM

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