Re: Disk Setup for NT 4.0

We went through a similar thing as part on an ERP implementation.

I can't say enough about the Oracle DBA Handbook, 7.3 edition, by Kevin Loney. The chapter on physical database layout will answer these questions very well.

Briefly, it comes down to balancing the reads and writes from the various files (data, index, rollback, temp, system, etc.). In a RAID 5 you will have multiple reads/writes to every disk for every request. While providing good redundancy performance may suffer with RAID 5. You need to determine which files are busiest, and separate them.

Regards

Stephen

PWolfley wrote in message <7edm2m$3ff$1_at_mtinsc01.worldnet.att.net>...
>Anybody:
>
> We are are expanding our Compaq Server, mostly in the
>form of more disk drives. The DB files are yet to be installed,
>so we are willing to to do most anything. We will be running Oracle Server
>7.3xx & right now we have it in a RAID 5 set, along with
>NT. Question: should we put NT on its own physical drive & Oracle
>on everything else? What about RAIDing the "Oracle" partition,
>which will comprise six 4.3 GB drives?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Pete Wolfley
>
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 06 1999 - 14:57:39 CDT