Re: Oracle on WinNT Installation - 2 questions

On 22 Feb 2000 21:14:51 GMT, gselbo_at_mmm.com (Geoffrey Elbo) wrote:

>1) Should NT be set up as a Stand-Alone server or a Backup Domain
>Controller? It is the third NT box in the system, so it is not imperative
>that it be a domain controller.

Cripes! Standalone Server, for sure!!!

>
>2) I saw an article in the newgroup stating the RAID should be set up as
>RAID 0+1 instead of RAID 5. Would this go for both the Server and the
>Storage unit, or just where I want to store databases? Here's what I was
>thinking:
>
> A 2GB area for WinNT 4.0 and
> A 98 GB area for Oracle system Software
> on the server storage
>
> A 100 GB (50GB if RAID 0+1) data area for storing databases
>

Better yet: forget the RAID5 alltogether for your OS and S/W partitions. Use it for shared directories or logfiles or flat data files. It's wasted on software. You can always re-install and if lost you lost no dynamic data anyway.

Use 0+1 for ORACLE database files for top performance. Although if that's an issue, use 0+1 for the ORACLE redo log files only and Raid 5 for the rest of the ORACLE files. You get max I/O performance where it's needed (redo log files) and max resilience in the data files (where, dare I say it, it's also needed?).

HTH Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Wed Feb 23 2000 - 07:43:21 CST