suggestions on striping

From: David Shi <dshi_at_magpage.com>
Date: 1998/01/11
Message-ID: <69aq26$icm$1@204.179.92.55>#1/1

We're currently planning on striping hard disks on a SUN server, I would appreciate if someone can comment on whether there is any performance issues in my approach. This is mostly from book "Unix and Oracle Performance Tuning".

The server is SUN ultra-6000 with 3GB memory and about 1000GB hard-disk, OS is Solaris 2.5.1, the main resource is giving to another database application. For Oracle, there might be 60 2.9GB HDs using disk trays, the striping (no any kind of redundency) I am thinking is:

give 10 controllers (disk tray) to Oracle, each has 6 HDs attached, strip each 10 HDs across the 10 controllers to form 6 meta-devices (thus objects such as tables and indexes can be further separated into different file systems).

Is this reasonable? Is 6 HDs too much for one controller (we may not have more giving to Oracle)? Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot.

David Received on Sun Jan 11 1998 - 00:00:00 CST