Re: Disk layout for two instance servers

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 18:17:00 -0700
Message-ID: <bf46380705021817r55a878e0y27eb3720de859c48@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/2/07, Neil Overend <neiloverend_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Our current production server (that I inherited) has a complex
> arrangement of disks with oracle files separated out to different disk
> arrays. And what we've ended up with is half the disks red hot and the
> other half under used.

... which is a great arguement for SAME.

Eliminate the headaches and hassles of deciding which files go where, and maximize throughput at the same time.

Unless you're tyring to out-benchmark someone else, I don't see the point of getting that granular in trying to allocate storage.

I'm not a storage expert, but I do know folks that are storage experts. They recommend it as well, and it works well for us.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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Received on Wed May 02 2007 - 20:17:00 CDT