Timeline for What is the recommended RAID configuration for an Oracle database?
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| Jan 7, 2011 at 10:49 | comment | added | mrdenny | +1 for RAID 5. It should always be tried before switching to RAID 10. Most databases at most companies don't actually need RAID 10. | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 21:52 | comment | added | jcolebrand♦ | Well that's cool and it sucks at the same time. Glad to have the voice of experience ;) [PS: mine's been the +1] | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 21:09 | comment | added | Tangurena | @jcolebrand, Many companies I've worked for treat network admins == server admins == database admins. In some, there are only a few people with access to the production datacenter, so those people have to wear 2 hats at once. In many I've worked for, the server admins don't know what is going on, therefore I get involved, so I have to know their job as well. | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 9:57 | comment | added | David Spillett | RAID5 can have significant write performance issues. RAID10 is more common for DB servers. | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 5:05 | comment | added | Brian Ballsun-Stanton | Raid 5 implemented where? Hardware? Software? Oracle? On how many disks? What about the Oracle recommended drive array? Isn't this what redo archive logs are for? | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 5:04 | comment | added | jcolebrand♦ | But changing out hard drives is not the domain of the DBA is it? Monitoring disks for lifetime and failure rate is for the automated tools of the SF crowd. Let's not duplicate work and destroy the reasons for specialization. We are dba's after all ;) | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 4:50 | history | answered | Tangurena | CC BY-SA 2.5 |