Tuesday, July 10, 2012

RAID recommendation for Oracle Database


Redo logs are extremely write intensive, and high bandwidth storage such as SSD are ideas for relieving I/O bottlenecks.  Also, online redo logs should always be multiplexed, and RAID1 provides few additional benefits.
RAID
Type of Raid
Control File
Database File
Redo Log File
Archive Log File
0
Striping
Avoid
OK
Avoid
Avoid
1
Shadowing
Best
OK
Best
Best
1+0
Striping and Shadowing
OK
Best
Avoid
Avoid
3
Striping with static parity
OK
OK
Avoid
Avoid
5
Striping with rotating parity
OK
Best if RAID0-1 not available
Avoid
Avoid

RAID Recommendations (From MOSC NOTE: 45635.1)

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