Hi Dennis Thanks for the leading questions maybe i should revisit my strategy regards Hrishy --- On Fri, 7/11/08, Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: ASM LUN sizes and number of disks > To: hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Friday, 7 November, 2008, 8:04 PM > Hirshy, > > In general, System Administrators like few large disks and > DBAs like many > disks. > For anybody to give you a rule of thumb, they would need to > know a lot more > about your particular database and application. > If I were you, the questions I would ask are: > > Is your performance satisfactory now? > How many devices is your database spread over now? > In the proposed configuration, how many devices would you > have? > If the proposed arrangement would not change your layout > significantly, go > for it. > If you were, for example, dropping from 6 drives to 2, then > you might > well be concerned. > How about disk controllers? Any change there? Cache? > > Dennis Williams -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l