The redo logs are 6 groups, 2 members each, 1gb in size. The SAN is EMC Clariion. Raid 5 does have somewhat poorer performance in writes in our environment but its usually not a major factor. -----Original Message----- From: Rajeev Prabhakar [mailto:rprabha01@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:48 PM To: Crisler, Jon Cc: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Re: Mirroring redo log groups or not ? Hello Jon, Before you go into redesign of the redo logs, did you check w/the SAs/Storage Admins ? During my last interactions with type of performance issue, I found that RAID 5 had a negative effect on overall performance during QA testing. of course, your mileage may vary. Can you share your findings (as seen by SA/Storage Admins). How big are your redo logs ? What kind of disks (Storage/SAN) are you folks using ? -Rajeev On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Crisler, Jon <Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx> wrote: > So, if the LUN that holds the online redo logs is already protected (raid 1, > 5 etc) do I really need to mirror the online redo logs ? Should I convert > the LUN to Raid 1 / 0 ? if I convert to Raid 1/ 0 should I keep redo log > mirroring and point to the same LUN ? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l