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 > > ------------------------------ > Yahoo! Sports > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy > Football<http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=33539/*http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com?ovchn=YAH&ovcpn=Integration&ovcrn=Mail+footer&ovrfd=YAH&ovtac=AD+> > > >