Exadata Cacheflash Compression

  • From: "Thomas P S" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "royxavier@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: ORACLE- L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy <royxavier@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 04:29:52 -0700 (PDT)

Dear List,

We have X4-2 Half Rack with 20TB flash cache with database size 8TB.  I am very 
reluctant to enable flashcache compression as the size of the database is half 
of flashcache, but Oracle says enabling flashcache compression is a best 
practice.  Every code execution need time, even though FC is implemented in 
hardware level compression, still I believe, there will be a penalty.  In this 
scenario, enabling flashcache compression is a wise idea?   Any one got  
falshcache I/O performance test results with compression and with out? 

Note: License is not an issue as we have Advanced Compression license.

Thanks in advance,

Thomas Saviour

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