How do you configure 2 Oracle DBs on 12 RAID disks?

   I was aked how I would install 2 Oracle8 databases on 12 RAID disks to get the most reliability, availability and speed. I am only a newbie DBA
so I mentioned if you were running in Archivelog Mode you would want your
Archivelog on a separate disk and you would want both databases with a 5 + 1
configuration, in other words, striped with parity over mirrors, so that you have 3
original disks for each separate database and 3 mirrors with RAID5 on each disk. One
disk for each DB would have the Archivelog.

     Does anyone have any book references for a question like this? I have all of Oracle8's documentation on my hard drive. Does Oracle provide this sort of expertise or just someone with a systems administrator background? By the way, is there any difference in how you would configure this RAID differently if you were to use Compaq TRU64,HP-UX-11 or Solaris 7 ,for instance? I'm a Unix and NT/Netware systems administrator trying to fill in for an Oracle DBA, so I am familiar with Solaris' Disk Suite and RAID Manager 6.1. With Compaq I'd be using
Logical Storage Manager.

    Thanks for any help. I hope this is not off topic.     

              Will Stewart Received on Wed Aug 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT