Re: AIX/Oracle with RAID 5 or 7???

elcaro <g-grooms_at_stl.prc.com> wrote:

>I'm looking for some recommendations/warnings about RAID vendors for IBM
>RS/6000 AIX and Oracle. I am looking to purchase a RAID solution for J30
>SMP servers.
 

>Any comments?

We use a J30 too and decided to go away from RAID5. IBM has the SSA-Disks. It is very quick and it wasn't expensive to buy twice the disk-space (type is 7133 i think) and use RAID1(mirroring). There is another possibility with RAID1 and SSA. It is to place one disk-system at a remote location for disaster recovery purpuses. The mirroring is done by AIX.

Greetinfg
KHF

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