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Hi

Other companies, like Network Appliance, has NAS products and I think they
support Oracle by NFS. Is possible to run a Oracle Database in Windows
Storage Server?.

Thanks

pat [msft]

You can't run the Oracle instance on the NAS box, but you could
theoretically point the instance to a NFS share.

I would be careful doing this.

To get max performance out of NFS, you need to enable write caching. So, it
is possible that if the NAS were to fail, you could have non-committed
transactions (though Oracle will _think_ that they have been) lost and the
DB may have to then go through a recovery. I don't know how well the latest
Oracle versions handle that, but I suspect it is not an especially pleasant
exercise (it certainly isn't for Exchange, SQL, etc. both of which require
write caching to be disabled).

Pat