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Jim McGrady wrote:
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> 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.
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> Advice would be welcome
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> 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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