Re: Oracle server configuration

Rich wrote:

> I am trying to work out the best options for speed and data protection
> for the following system:
>
> Solaris V880 with 6 internal 72 gb disks on one controller (I know this
> will be a single point of failure)
>
> I want to load the Oracle software and have a database of 40gb and have
> space for archive logs (10gb). I was considering the following:
>
> (a) 1 root disk containing Solaris 9 and Oracle mirrored (2 disks)
> (b) 1 disk for archive logs and backups and host spare pool standalone
> (1disk)
> (c) 3 disks for the database using Raid 5 with hot spares from (a) (3
> disks)
>
> Does this look a bad idea to anyone or are there better ways of doing it
>
> with the configuration available
>
> Thanks for any ideas

I'd be trying to spread database I/O over as many disks as possible. It seems to me that a bad decision was made buying 72GB disks. I'd rather have 4 x 18GB drives for each drive you have. Any chance of an exchange? If not why devote 144GB to the operating system and Oracle? Stick your archive logs and backups one one of them and make better use of the other too by adding tablespaces. A disk acting as nothing but backup has zero I/O.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Feb 13 2003 - 10:52:35 CST