Hi Kevin, Thanks for the response. > Giving over 25% of the IOPS capacity to OS+ORACLE_HOME? -- Can we place our online REDO logs on the first 2 mirrored disks? > Is there a lot of UTL_FILE , securefiles or other such demand for structured data? -- No > Theese 8 disks are internal SAS disks. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Kevin Closson <ora_kclosson@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Giving over 25% of the IOPS capacity to OS+ORACLE_HOME? Is there a lot of > UTL_FILE , securefiles or other such demand for structured data? > > Also, how are these 8 disks connected to the system (specifically what I/O > card and what is the nature of the PCIe slot they plug into) ? > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* DBA Deepak <oracle.tutorials@xxxxxxxxx> > *To:* Oracle-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > *Sent:* Mon, April 25, 2011 11:26:37 AM > *Subject:* ASM+internal disks > > Hi, > > > We have a server with 8 SAS internal disks. The OS is going to be RHEL 5 > x86_64 > > We plan to mirror disk 1 and 2 using software RAID -- OS and Oracle > software will be kept on this > > Remaining 6 disks will be used for ASM. > > > Need your expert opinion on how to use the disks efficiently to maximize > the available space without loosing ASM performance benefits much. > > > Our main worry is that if we spare 2 disks for storing online REDO logs > (different ASM diskgroup with fine striping) then it will be a loss of space > as well as we will have only 4 disks to store remaining oracle database > files hence loosing performance a bit. > > > Please suggest how should we layout the various files under ASM. > > -- > Regards, > > Deepak > Oracle DBA > -- Regards, Deepak Oracle DBA