Re: Setting up Oracle Database for Production

mjyothi_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks Sybrand for the feedback,
>
> I would need more detailes on the Four central guidelines
> viz what is distributed I/O.
>
> you are a senior DBA, Do you have any Production qualification
> Templates, which i can follow.
>
> Thanks
> Jyothi
>
>
> sybrandb_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>

>>1) I don't think so. I would have installed the sw on C:\ I would also
>>made sure I have more drives. If drive D:\ toast, the system is toast
>>2) Oracle doesn't support archiving to a network drive
>>3) Four central guidelines
>>- Avoid single points of failure
>>- Distribute I/O
>>- Don't use RAID-5
>>- plan implement and test thou backup and recovery, before disaster
>>strikes.
>>
>>-- 
>>Sybrand Bakker
>>Senior Oracle DBA

Please do not top post.

You want to distribute the reading and writing across as many drive spindles, platters, as you can. If all the i/o is happening in a small area of one drive performance will be poor.

Can you find a local Oracle DBA or member of an Oracle user group to act as your mentor and help you? It sounds to me like you are being set up for failure.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)