Configuring a new Solaris server for Oracle 10g [message #322892] |
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orausern
Messages: 826 Registered: December 2005
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Hi,
We have obtained a brand new Sun T1000 server. It has 16 gb ram and two hard disks of 146 GB. I have to work on getting oracle 10g on this. I have to decide on mount points and its sizes. Following is one suggesion:
For Disk 1:
20GB / -- root partition
10GB /tmp
10GB /var
15GB /home
20GB /apps -- application binaries (oracle, etc)
70GB /backup -- backup data
For DISK 2
146GB /oradata -- all oracle db files
Assuming that most of the space (as much as possible) should be left for the database, is this a good design? - I know that redo logs should be spread across disks so that is one thing I know already, any additional suggestions should be very helpful.
Basically for the Solaris OS to work , how much space should be left (in the root, var and other such partiions) is not clear to me.
Thanks,
Nirav
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Re: Configuring a new Solaris server for Oracle 10g [message #323142 is a reply to message #322896] |
Tue, 27 May 2008 07:45 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/orafaq/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/orafaq/images/down.png) |
orausern
Messages: 826 Registered: December 2005
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Thank you Ebrian. This is very helpful. A few more questions:
Is it better to have raid -if so what level of raid should we plan for? (This is a server to be used for Development and QA databases.)
Does it help to have index and data tablespaces on different disks?
Thanks,
Nirav
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Re: Configuring a new Solaris server for Oracle 10g [message #323159 is a reply to message #323156] |
Tue, 27 May 2008 08:46 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/orafaq/images/up.png) |
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ebrian
Messages: 2794 Registered: April 2006
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With two drives your options are very limited. If your database isn't that big, you could still do RAID 1 and have the backups on disk. That way, if one drive fails, you still have your complete system available on the other drive. You could pull out the failed drive and pop in a new drive to automatically rebuild the RAID drives.
It's ultimately going to depend on how big the database currently is or is going to grow to be.
Another option would be to use external storage for the backups.
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