Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-08 Thread Neil Schofield
Roger I too have been following this with interest. Being paranoid, I mirror the database twice - once in hardware and again in software, but I appreciate this is a luxury not available to most. I'm sorry but I fail to see the logic in not using battery-backed cache in the RAID controller. If

Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread Leigh Reed
-L] Database mirroring, again On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:07:08 -0600, Roger Deschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hardware 2x2 SSA RAID10 (2-way striped mirrored pairs), raw volumes, 4 dbvols per virtual RAID volume (hdisk), which is still 2 dbvols per real disk. I think the number volumes/spindle

Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread Mark Stapleton
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/06/2006 01:07:08 PM: I know we've been over this, but times change, and technology changes. Conventional Wisdom on this list has been that the best disk layout for your TSM Database is: JBOD disks, Raw volumes, mirrored by TSM, with 2

Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread Leigh Reed
14:22 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Database mirroring, again ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/06/2006 01:07:08 PM: I know we've been over this, but times change, and technology changes. Conventional Wisdom on this list has been that the best disk layout

Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread Otto Schakenbos
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: 07 February 2006 14:22 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Database mirroring, again ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/06/2006 01:07:08 PM: I know

Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread John Monahan
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/06/2006 01:07:08 PM: I know we've been over this, but times change, and technology changes. Conventional Wisdom on this list has been that the best disk layout for your TSM Database is: JBOD disks, Raw volumes, mirrored by TSM, with 2

Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread Roger Deschner
Thank you all for your comments. This has been an interesting discussion to follow. My original incentive to change was performance. We're in a database I/O bottleneck situation, and hardware mirroring/striping should definitely help. I'm in the process of changing to it right now, and I'll

Database mirroring, again

2006-02-06 Thread Roger Deschner
I know we've been over this, but times change, and technology changes. Conventional Wisdom on this list has been that the best disk layout for your TSM Database is: JBOD disks, Raw volumes, mirrored by TSM, with 2 dbvols per physical volume. (This is what I am using now.) I've got all the

Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-06 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:07:08 -0600, Roger Deschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hardware 2x2 SSA RAID10 (2-way striped mirrored pairs), raw volumes, 4 dbvols per virtual RAID volume (hdisk), which is still 2 dbvols per real disk. I think the number volumes/spindle is increasingly irrelevant in the