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Donald K. Burleson
Oracle Tips |
Oracle Disk file striping
As previously stated, the more we can spread our
tablespaces across multiple disks, the better Oracle likes it. If
you have the disk resources, spread Oracle as thin as you can. While
a seven-area configuration performs well, and is easy to maintain,
the more disk areas, the merrier.
Disk Striping, Shadowing, RAID, and Other Topics
Unless you’ve been living in seclusion from the computer mainstream,
you will have heard of disk striping, shadowing, and the umbrella
term for both of these technologies, RAID. Let’s take a brief look
at these disk storage technologies and how they will affect Oracle.
Disk Striping
Disk striping is the process by which multiple smaller disks are
made to look like one large disk. This allows extremely large
databases, or even extremely large single-table tablespaces, to
occupy one logical device. This makes managing the resource easier
since backups only have to address one logical volume instead of
several. This also provides the advantage of spreading I/O across
several disks. If you will need several hundred gigabytes of disk
storage for your application, striping may be the way to go.
There is one disadvantage to striping, however: If one of the disks
in the set crashes, you lose them all unless you have a
high-reliability array with hot-swap capability. Striping is RAID0.
This is an
excerpt by Mike Ault’s book “Oracle
Administration & Management”. If you want more current Oracle tips
by Mike Ault, check out his new book “Mike
Ault’s Oracle Internals Monitoring & Tuning Scripts” or
Ault’s Oracle Scripts Download.
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