Hi Oracle folks, I'm relatively new to the capacity planning business (and oracle-L) and am looking for some other real world calibrate_io metrics to compare against. How do these metrics compare to what you've seen? I know it ultimately comes down to SLA's and what our storage vendor's promise (trying to get that info) but I'd like to have a frame of reference for comparison. I guess what I'm looking for is whether what I'm seeing is a Ford (Opel for some of you): 1) Focus 2) Mustang 3) Shelby GT500 4) other? :) Our system: Oracle 11.2.0.3 on RHEL5 x64 (virtualized via vmware) HP Left hand P4500 G2 120TB storage cluster with 120 1,000 GB 7.2K MDL SAS disk drives (RAID 10) *My script:* set serveroutput on declare l_latency integer; l_iops integer; l_mbps integer; begin dbms_resource_manager.calibrate_io (120,10,l_iops,l_mbps,l_latency); dbms_output.put_line('I/O Ops/sec = '||l_iops); dbms_output.put_line('Actual Latency = '||l_latency); dbms_output.put_line('MB/sec = '||l_mbps); end; / *Results:* sys@MUDRPRD> @calibrate_io.sql *I/O Ops/sec = 6922* *Actual Latency = 10* *MB/sec = 655* begin print_table(' select max_iops,max_mbps,max_pmbps,latency,num_physical_disks from DBA_RSRC_IO_CALIBRATE '); end; / *MAX_IOPS : 6922* *MAX_MBPS : 655* *MAX_PMBPS : 372* *LATENCY : 10* *NUM_PHYSICAL_DISKS : 120* ----------------- Any feedback would be appreciated! thank you, Anthony Sanchez -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l