The UNIX and Linux Forums  
Hello and Welcome from United States to the UNIX and Linux Forums! Thank You for Visiting and Joining Our Global Community.

Go Back   The UNIX and Linux Forums > Special Forums > Hardware > Filesystems, Disks and Memory
.
google unix.com



Filesystems, Disks and Memory Discuss NAS, SAN, RAID, Robotic Libraries, backup devices, RAM, DRAM, SCSI, IDE, EIDE topics here.

More UNIX and Linux Forum Topics You Might Find Helpful
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Regarding volumes entries! painulyarun UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users 0 05-04-2007 04:14 PM
Used Space on Logical Volumes aldowsary AIX 7 04-24-2007 02:13 AM
filesystems and logical volumes uXion AIX 1 08-15-2006 11:39 PM
Did not know about logical volumes gezi News, Links, Events and Announcements 2 04-27-2005 10:10 AM
AIC logical volumes 98_1LE UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 1 09-14-2002 09:33 PM

Reply
English Japanese Spanish French German Portuguese Italian Dutch Swedish Russian Norwegian Hungarian Hebrew Danish Powered by Powered by Google
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Rate Thread Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 10-13-2009
kekanap's Avatar
kekanap kekanap is offline
Registered User
  
 

Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: South Africa
Posts: 36
Cool Raw volumes

The query is as follows :
A typical server configs when using Oracle or any other type of DB is to install the OS + DB binaries on the internal disks of the relevant server e.g.
Disk 1 : OS + SW + DB binaries
Disk 2 : Mirror of disk 1 (used for resiliency)

Then one uses an external array that is typically connected via Fibre Channel Card from Server to Storage Array.
One then configures the storage array either in RAID 10 or RAID 5 (typically a trade off between READ/WRITE speed vs. STORAGE DURATION/LENGTH).

Now the question is if one had a server which has the capacity of having 6 x Internal Disks (e.g. 6 x 146 GB 15K rpm SAS) what is the trade off if:
(1) Disk 1 = OS + SW + DB binaries
(2) Disk 2 = Mirror Disk 1 (e.g. RAID 1 config)
(3) Disk 3 & 4 are then RAID 10 to Disks 5 & 6 , where Disk 3 & 4 hold the raw vols for the DB

Would it still be better to use a Fibre Channel Card to an External Storage Array to house the raw vols of the DB and why ?
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 10-13-2009
zaxxon's Avatar
zaxxon zaxxon is offline Forum Staff  
Moderator
  
 

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Germany
Posts: 2,259
If you need a lot of performance it would be a good idea since an external disk array usually has (hopefully) a lot of RAM to cache requests that the OS and internal hardware does not have to handle.
We usually have all RDBMs binaries and the DB's themselves on more or less powerful external arrays.
They also handle the RAID for you - you can also have them maybe set up redundant in 2 different locations just in case of a disaster. External storage makes you more flexible too but is also much more expensive.
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On




All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:35 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2006, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. Language Translations Powered by .
vBCredits v1.4 Copyright ©2007 - 2008, PixelFX Studios
The UNIX and Linux Forums Content Copyright ©1993-2009. All Rights Reserved.Ad Management by RedTyger

Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO 3.2.0