Re: Still looking for RAID answers

<bdbafh_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Randy,
>
> it depends.
>
> what versions of Oracle Database Server software are you running?

Sorry... Careless on my part. 9.2.0.5 (Enterprise)

> what volume manager software (if any) are you currently using?
>
> one could consider using 10g ASM, in which case you could just turn
> over the disks to Oracle - or could create mirrored sets and turn those
> RAID 1 volumes over to Oracle.
>
> If you prefer to stage backups on local storage and push/pull backup
> sets to elsewhere on the network, then you'll have to take that into
> account prior to dedicating the disks or LUNs to ASM.
>
> here is a place to start from:
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/10gdba/week8_10gdba.html
>
> if we all had adequate testing equipment and time to test different
> configurations, this would be a non-issue. most people use a best
> guess^H^H^H^H^H practice and hope its good enough.
>
> hth.
>
> -bdbafh
>
Received on Tue Jan 04 2005 - 17:39:58 CST