RE: Orion, NFS, & File Size

From: "CRISLER, JON A" <JC1706@xxxxxxx>
To: "hacketta_57@xxxxxx" <hacketta_57@xxxxxx>, "Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:20:12 +0000
You should create a number of datafiles at 30gb size- perhaps 5 or 10.  Orion 
will kick off multiple threads (you can control the number).  Once you have a 
db set up you can also use the calibrate i/o package for some easy benchmarks.

The Netapp aggregates need to be planned out: you will find that REDO needs to 
be segregated from other datafiles, so the "aggregates" on the Netapp storage 
backend need to be well thought out.  If you have multiple systems (dev, test, 
etc) - do not allow them to share aggregates with your prod system as they will 
step on each other.  In other words- keep your prod aggregates segregated from 
non-prod aggregates.

I would not create a single NFS volume:  I would use at least 4:  datafiles, 
redo, flash recovery area, OCR-VOTE.  This gives you a bit more parallelism at 
the OS level for I/O.   When you get into testing, you should thoroughly test 
the Netapp controller failover - failback (switchover - giveback ?) - we have 
found that this is frequently misconfigured or problematic, so you need to test 
it to make sure the config is correct.  If correctly configured it works fine, 
and you need this feature for NetApp maintenance like OnTape patches, etc.

A lot of this is NetApp terminology- share this with your NetApp storage 
administrator and they will understand.

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Austin Hackett
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 3:49 PM
To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Orion, NFS, & File Size

Hello List

I'm preparing to build a new 11.2.0.3.2 RAC cluster on OEL 5.4 (the latter 
isn't something I can change at the moment). The shared storage is a NetApp 
filer via NFS. Prior to Oracle installation, I plan to use Orion to check the 
storage is performing as expected (I'll also use SLOB post-install).

According to section "8.4.6 Orion Troubleshooting" 
(http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e16638/iodesign.htm#BABBEJIH
) in the 11.2 Performance Tuning manual:

"If you run on NAS storage ... the mytest.lun file should contain one or more 
paths of existing files ... The file has to be large enough for a meaningful 
test. The size of this file should represent the eventual expected size of your 
datafiles (say, after a few years of use)"

Assume the following about what the DB will look like in a few years:

- All my datafiles will be on a single NFS volume
- The datafiles will total 1TB in size
- No individual  datafile will be larger than, say 30GB

Does the statement in the manual mean that:

I should use dd to create 1 x 30G file on the volume i'll be using for the 
datafiles

or

I should use dd to create a number of files on the volume i'll be using for the 
datafiles, 30GB in size, totaling 1TB

I'm interpreting it as meaning the former, but had hoped to sanity check my 
thinking

If anyone could offer any help, it would be much appreciated...

Thanks

Austin






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