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Re: Oracle OK with RAID5 volumes ?

From: bobmorningstar <bobmorningstar_at_sprintmail.com>
Date: 1997/12/01
Message-ID: <3482F054.82F@sprintmail.com>#1/1

Jim McGrady wrote:
>
> Good Day All
>
> We currently run Oracle 7 with forms on a Sun Solaris 2.4 system.
> We are planning to move onto new Sun hardware running Solaris 2.6.
>
> Does Oracle still require a large number of individual disks for good
> IO distribution ? Or could we use a RAID5 approach on the new system ?
> I had in mind to use an 8 - 10 disk RAID volume for the majority; with
> a few physical disk partitions for raw devices.
>
> Advice would be welcome
>
> Regards
>
> Jim

We run an Alpha 4100 with 2 processors. Oracle is 7.3.3.4 Raidsets are 3-5 disks, with mirrorsets for redos and rollbacks.

Works great.

Bob

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Received on Mon Dec 01 1997 - 00:00:00 CST

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