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July 25th, 2011 12:00
Oracle RAID configuration...I know it depends..but...
Hello Team - when it comes to RAID configuration to Oracle DB 10g and above what's the best practice OR what have you seen being implemented the most out there?
I know this is probably a question that will lead to personal beliefs or the famous (but always applicable) "it depends". Regardless, I would like to have your opinion on this or if you could point me to more of a more formal answer from us is fine to.
The reason I ask is that, I do get a lot of questions around what would we recommend as best practices. I do a lot of overlay support for overseas partners so I don't get the privilege of having huge access to end customer to clarify certains things. So, I work a lot out of assumptions and I have to rely a lot on best practices to at least present something that doesn't look like completely off.
Anyways; any guidance will be appreciated.
Everton,
You really did call it - it does depend. I'm working on a document (drawn from several sources) that should shine some light on which RAID option is most appropriate under certain circumstances. I'll attach it to this post once it's done - I'm thinking tomorrow if that's okay.
Rob Tacey
Solution Design CenterEverton,
I just wanted to let you know that I'm still crafting my paper on RAID recommendations. FAST technology has introduced some additional recommendations and those are taking me a bit longer to integrate than I initially anticipated. It's coming along well though.
Rob TaceySolution Design Center
Solution Enablement Team
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617-794-1839EvertonXavier
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Posted July 29th, 2011 18:00
Hi Rob - This is great! Straight to the point, love it! I really like the breakdown by file type.
Please if you don't mind I will pass it along with my team here at VCE as well; this will be very useful for all of us for sure. I will ask for feedback as well.
Thanks again for this. I really glad I signed up for this Community!!!!
The “Oracle on Symmetrix” techbook provides good background information and guidance for deploying Oracle databases on Symmetrix including ASM general best practices.
Similarly Radha has produced the whitepaper Deploying Oracle Database Applications on EMC VNX Unified Storage
Good guidance on Oracle Storage for VMAX, OLTP and OLAP, is given in the following solutionshttp://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1//en_US/Offering_Technical/White_Paper/h7068-tiered-storage-oracle-vmax-fast-ionix-wp.pdf
http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/White_Paper/h8123-oracle-rac-symmetrix-fast-vp-vsphere-wp.pdfThis paper reflects the EMC IT Datawarehouse storage layout
http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h8238-oracle-remote-recovery-datadomain-wp.pdfRemember that by their nature OLTP is normally about IOPS and OLAP/DW is about MB/s.
EvertonXavier
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Posted August 3rd, 2011 10:00
Great Stuff! Allan. I just passed this along to my team here as well. I am getting a lot of positive feedback from it.
I am quickly becoming a big fan of this community!
Allan,
one more to add, CLARiiON based but still holds true!
Dave
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Posted July 25th, 2011 13:00
Rob, Great! I am really looking forward to it.