Re: Performance problems after moving to new hardware

  • From: Mark Burgess <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx" <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:24:18 +1100

Hi Sandra,

What was the hardware platform that you migrated this system from? Was it T5 or 
other?

Regards,

Mark

> On 5 Mar 2015, at 12:25 am, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> OS:  Solaris Sparc 10  (64-bit) 
> Oracle:  EE 11.2.0.2
> 
> The OS and Oracle versions are identical on both the old and new servers.  
> Storage attached to the new server is a new EMC disk array.  Sorry I don't 
> have any more details on the storage and the only additional information I 
> have on the server is that it is a T5.
> 
> We created a standby on the new hardware and did a switchover last Friday 
> night.  On Saturday I completed gathering stats on the application schema 
> tables as requested by the product manager.  As usual, very little activity 
> on this database over the weekend.  Yesterday morning we were contacted by 
> internal users that performance was much worse than on the old hardware for a 
> specific query on a really ugly view.  A look at the execution plan shows 
> multiple full table scans on some partitioned tables, some very large.  There 
> are about 15 tables joined to create the view, some more than once.  They 
> claim the view is no longer doing partition pruning, as it did before the 
> switchover.  I can't prove that it was/wasn't exhibiting this behavior before 
> the switchover.  They are insisting we run I/O calibration.  I'm not familiar 
> with it so I went to the docs.  This database shares storage with quite a few 
> production databases so I want to be very careful how I go about this.
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