On 9 Feb 2012, at 18:04, ANIL YADAV wrote:
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> I am Database administrator. We have a high transactional database. We want
> to move on SAN. Are there any guidelines for SAN designing? like stripe
> size, block size etc?
>
> If not then how we will be able to achieve high IO?
Hello Yadav.
From what you're writing I suppose you are dealing with a disk-bound workload.
Before starting to consider increasing your (disk) I/O Capacity with the acquisition of a
SAN, have you considered trying to make your workload memory-bound again, maybe with the
addition of enough RAM to your database server and some reconfiguration? I tend to
believe this solution class has offers quicker, easily measurable return of investment
than a (usually painful) migration to SAN.
If this is not clear to you or if you want to know more, please feel free to ask.
Kind regards,
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Luis Motta Campos
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