RE: Oracle installtion guidelines [NT]

I would recommend RAID 1 for the boot drive (containing, in your scenario, the NT server s/w, Oracle s/w etc) as well as the other disks, so if ANY disk fails its only a hot plug away from fixing (I presume you're using H/W based RAID, not NT's software based solution)

On our main server we have RB, TEMP T/S and online redo logs all on dedicated volumes to split up the I/O - however, you may not have that luxury - personally I'd be uncomfortable having RB and online redo logs on the same volume, so I'd split them if nothing else, but you will need more disks.

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>From: O'Neill, Sean[SMTP:Sean.ONeill_at_organon.ie]
>Sent: July 03 2000 16:29
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>Subject: Oracle installtion guidelines [NT]
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>I'm trying to come up with a set of guidelines for installation of Oracle on
>our NT servers which in turn will help determine minimum server disk qty
>requirements. OK, it's a bit of "horses for courses" I'll admit, but I'm
>looking to develop a basic template which can be bulit upon depending on DB
>size etc. So hoping that this is not covered in some documentation.... if
>it is please let me know and I'll RTFM!
>
>What I've come up with so far is:
>
>Disk Contents RAID level
>---------- ------------------------------- ----------
>1 NT Server s/w, Oracle software, None
> INIT.ORA files, Startup cmd files
>
>2 Control file#1 1
> RB files
> Temp Files
> Online redo logs 1, 2, 3
>
>3 Control file#2 1
> Data files
> On line redo logs (mirror set 1)
>
>4 Control file#3 1
> Index files
> On line redo logs (mirror set 2)
>
>5 Archive logs 1
>
>I'd appreciate feedback any feedback on above but especially re distribution
>of various file types and RAID levels.
>Also if only 4 disks available, RAID aside, which would be best disk to
>place Archive logs on. Of course if I have some serious ommissions, or
>plain stupid notions in above please let me know too ;)
>
>Thanks in Advance,
>Sean :)
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