Configuring NAS as local storage
This is not a specific question related directly to Oracle, but I'm hoping somebody can answer or point me in the proper direction. I'm working on setting up a Disaster Recovery system for my Oracle environment. Right now my DR system is such:
HP Proliant DL 385 (G5): 64-bit running Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 2 and 10.2.0.4.0
IoMega StorPro Center NAS: Mounted as NFS, holds all database related files (control, redo and .dbf files)
I have everything working but the NAS is hooked up to the network, and thus my environment requires network connectivity which I obviously can't count on during a disaster. Is there anyway to configure the NAS as local storage so when I do not have network connectivity I can still access my files on it?
The vendor (IoMega) was of very little help. They tell me that I can plug the NAS directly into one of the NIC cards and "discover" the NAS that way. The problem is that the discovery agent does not run on Linux and they could not tell me how to get around this.
Anybody have some experience hooking up a NAS unit as local storage instead of NFS? I'm trying to put on my SA/Network/Storage hats as best as possible, but I have very little experience trying things like this.