At one point I used a SAN with a 380GB postgresql database. There were
no issues.
Great benefit? We were able to keep a hot standby servers in case the
main server went down. In that case we would just shutdown the primary
server, and start the standby one.
- Ericson Smith
W3matter LLC
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On 7/26/07, Albe Laurenz <all@adv.magwien.gv.at> wrote:
> Denis Gasparin wrote:
> > We're evaluating to install a SAN (Storage Area Network) and to use it
> > as storage area for our Postgresql server.
> >
> > Did anybody already make this? Problems, performance issues, tips?
>
> We use a SAN with HP EVA boxes for our PostgreSQL servers and we have
> not encountered any irregularities so far. None of our databases
> are very big or under heavy load though.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>
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