You might test disabling SAN read cache but enabling write cache to get a better performance Thanks -- LSC On 9/13/07, ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx <ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The Oracle docs state that ASM can perform striping and mirroring. If I > use ASM on a SAN how is it able to stripe? All it will see are mount points? > My understanding is that it is possible create LUN(logical Units) and map > them to individual disks or sets of disks and then possibly map those to > mount points. Would this make it easier for ASM to handle IO distribution? > > The project I am working will fully deploy with 5 billion inserts(all bulk > loads using external tables) and have 4 million OLTP type queries/day > (average query returns over 100 rows, but they are all index scans and the > queries are not that complex). No updates or deletes. > > I am trying to find ways to optimize our physical IO. We are using RAC so > if I need more CPU we can add nodes. >