Re: Oracle/Solaris/Striping?

Hi all,

I'm currently working with a SC2000 and striping with the Pluto's ( SparcStorage Arrays ). I have 90 drives that use striping and Oracle is purring like a happy kitten.

As previous, if you have any questions feel free to email or call.

Jim Langston
(513) 427-4221

In article <dscott-1503952244100001_at_dscott.is.net>, dscott_at_is.net (David Scott) writes:
|> In article <3k3506$1u0_at_news.halcyon.com>, cdwf_at_kendaco.telebyte.com wrote:
|>
|> > We are getting ready to move up to Oracle 7.1.4 and upgrade our Sun
 Solaris at the same time...
|> >
|> > We are also looking at using Solaris to 'stripe' the database to try to
 reduce our I/O congestion.
|> > Has anyone done this? Is anyone familiar with how Oracle handles the
 Solaris striping?
|> >
|> As one of the other posters said, Oracle doesn't care about whether you
|> use OS level striping or not. However, YOU DO. We are running our stripes
|> against 4 physical disks (1Gig per) to get our mount points, and mirroring
|> them as well. The increase in throughput is quite noticeable. OTOH, you
|> must be very sure to deploy your tablespaces in such a manner as to
|> prevent overlap and IO contention, just as with single physical disks;
|> this will prevent nullifying the advantages of the stripe. We store redo
|> logs, data and index tablespaces on stripes; control files, scripts, and
|> less used tablespaces (USERS, TOOLS) on simple volumes (also mirrored).
|> Temp space tablespace MUST be on a stripe if you plan to do any sorting
|> (who wouldn't?).
|>
|> BTW, I love the Solaris 2.4/Oracle 7.1.4 combo! Let me know if I can help
|> with any more info.
|>
|> --
|> David Scott
|> ...how can I keep from singing?
|> email: dscott_at_is.net
Received on Mon Mar 20 1995 - 16:49:49 CET