Re: Storage configuration

  • From: <rjsearle@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:22:03 +1000

Hi Sanjay.
 We are about to move to SAN so all I have is a bunch of research, however 
I'm finding consistently that log files should not use raid 5. Doing so 
raises the probability of causing a write bottleneck on log files. I 
personally prefer the SAME approach (Strip And Miror Everything) 
 HTH
Russell

 On 6/22/05, Sanjay Mishra <smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> Hi
>  Thanks Jared and other for giving ideas about Raid Storage for one of EMC 
> SAN. I need some more advice before making any progress with our admin.
>  We are planning to put 8 production databases , 7 OLTP and 1 Warehouse on 
> to the new SAN. I am thinking that I should get 2 RAID 1+0 LUNs for each 
> database to store Log and Arvhived files respectively and one or two RAID5 
> for Database files. Any suggestion or corrections based on your environment 
> and expertise. I am open for any change at this moment. The OLTP database 
> sizes are less that 100G and Warehouse database is more than 1TB.
>  Do I need to get seperate LUN for Log an Archived files for each 
> database. Never worked deeply with any storage configuration and so are not 
> clear on the pros and cons or any issues for having single or multiple LUNs
>   TIA
> Sanjay
> 
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