Hi Steven, apart from OCR/Voting disk requiremets, when designing SAN Storage for database, following need to be done considered: - find out application I/O characteristis - find out bandwith limits for all I/O stack components - understand reqired RPO, RTO, SLA's The resulted design should be throughput od not capacity oriented. regards, goran On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Steven Andrew <postora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We are building up a system from scratch and wanted to follow the best > practices in setting up SAN Storage Array for ASM. With 22 disks in the > array for use, i was planning on doing 11 + 11 in Raid 1/0 setup with > maximum stripe possible within the array and carve out 3 x 2G LUNs for > vote_ocr and 2 x 1TB LUNs for both DATA and FRA diskgroup. vote-ocr DGs > will use normal redundancy and database in external redundancy. This will be > on 11gR2 + Linux 5.5 + 4 node RAC cluster to house a mixed (70% oltp + 30% > DDS) workload application. Wondering if anyone have an opinion or best > practices generally implemented for these setups. > > Thanks > Steven Andrew >