DASD Disk Layout Advice
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:18:04 -0800 (PST)
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For the last few years, I've largely been laying out Oracle storage on SAN's, rather than on DASD, so I'm feeling a bit out of practise with today's drives and drive arrays.
To make a long story short, I've got a new Oracle server in a remote data center that I didn't order or configure; it comes like it comes.
Its a 32G 8 core intel box with 8 300G 15k SAS drives in it and a decent raid controller. Database in question is somewhere between a data warehouse and OLTP e.g. its read heavy, but there's still a very significant amount of write activity.
I've got a colleague who, wants to build out the box something like:
Disk0 .. RedoA Disk1 .. RedoB Disks 2..3 RAID 1 OS and Index tablespace Disks 4..7 Raid 10 Data tablespace
My instinct is that buildout "wastes" too many spindles and ends up starving the index and data volumes.
The counterproposal is to just make one big raid group like:
Disk 0..7 Raid 10
What are folks doing these days with these bold 'old 300G disks? It seems supremely wasteful to use an entire 300G drive hold 20G worth of red.
Any recommendations, advice, etc would be appreciated. Received on Tue Nov 24 2009 - 21:18:04 CST