Technical, machine decisions for running Oracle...

Oracle gurus,

I am relatively new to implementing a strategy for deploying Oracle server (8i) for production use...

My use of Oracle will demand high traffic 24x7 (quick requests, and small queries --> as a webmessage board for instance)...

Can you give me or point me to helpful info on the following key topics (and bright other important topics to my attention):

1. Server capacity:
2. how important is a lot of onboard cache?
3. processor speed?
4. number of processors?
5. Using RAID or not... striping data for speed
6. Mirroring (onto second machine) - for Fault Tolerance and faster Backups...

Any help, if just a pointer to a helpful resource/website is very much appreciated.

thanks,
steve Received on Mon Nov 08 1999 - 12:37:50 CST