If Karl Arao has seen this post, I'm sure he will recommend you to check his blog article: Workload characterization using DBA_HIST tables and kSar You can find it in: http://karlarao.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/workload-characterization-using-dba_hist-tables-and-ksar/ And also, he has written a couple of scripts to determine the system capacity which you can find in his shared Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5H46jS7ZPdJMDEyMmYyYjEtZDA2MC00NWRlLWIzMWYtMWQyZDlmYTA5YWM1&hl=en -- Zhang Leyi (Kamus) <kamusis@xxxxxxxxx> Visit my blog for more : http://www.dbform.com Join ACOUG: http://www.acoug.org On Jun 11, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Ethan Post wrote: > If Oracle is the only major software running on the server you should be able > to get this from just grabbing iostat and vmstat data. Oracle has a free tool > called OSWatcher (Google it) which I run on most of my servers. > > I would confirm the iostat data with data from gv$filestats and some of the > values from gv$system_statistics for things like physical writes, reads, > amount of redo generated to make sure they fall in line as I don't always > trust the accounting I see in iostat. > > If you have OEM/Grid Control installed you should be able to see all this > stuff without homegrown scripts. > > You could also run some ash reports during peak hours and see what that tells > you. Look for ash* files in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin directory. > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Vamshi Damidi <dbaprimatics@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > We are currently on DAS file system and would like to move to SAN. and with > New servers > and we need to calculate the demand for IO and CPU so that we can design the > disk architecture and buy the server accordingly. > Please let me know if you need any more information. > > Any help would be greatfull. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l