Re: What should sys admins know about Oracle?

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Jonathan Gennick wrote:

>
> 1. Oracle needs lots of physically separate disks. Please
> don't replace 9 4-gig drives with one 36 gig drive<g>.

Good luck getting it. We are purchasing the new 'Shark' Enterprise Storage Systems from IBM.

The smallest physical drive available is 18 Gig.

The only configuration allowed on them is RAID 5.

It is impossible to get a consistent stripe width across all RAID's.

RAID 5 and cache are becoming the storage panacea.

Jared

>
> 2. Mount points used for Oracle should correspond to
> physically separate drives, or at least I should know when
> they don't. I once had a sys admin give me 3 mount points to
> use for control files, and it turned out that they all
> pointed to the same drive. I had a difficult time explaining
> to him why that was a bad thing.
>
> So what else? What else do system administrators "need" to
> know about Oracle?
>
> Jonathan
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> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:58:37 -0800, Chris Royce wrote:
>
> >I DO agree with you about 'clueless sys admins' BUT, at all of my sites
> >---- I have a 'pow-wow' with the sys admin and explain what the ORACLE
> >systems archetecture is all about and the importance of just a few
> >components.
>
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Jared Still
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