[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> PS - can anyone email me some docs or information on how to set this up on
> a solaris 10x86 host? we want to test this storage array for some small
> 250gb oracle databases which will be directly attached to the oracle server
> via SAS.
Greetings,
I'm no expert on the 2530 nor Oracle, but I did do this recently; Our
setup is a W2100z workstation running S10U1_x86 (patched to S10U4 levels),
to which we added a dual-port Sun PCI-X SAS HBA card (you'd want PCI-E if
you have a more modern host). It's not doing mpxio at the moment, as
there's just a single cable in use.
Really, everything just worked. I downloaded and installed the CAM software
on the workstation, using these docs:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-2934-10
This link gets you to the above and the array docs as well:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/st2500.array#hic
The CAM package comes with array and drive firmware, and you patch it using
patchadd/smpatch to get any firmware updates, after which the GUI can be used
to upload firmware to the array.
We have Oracle DBA's here and follow their recommendations on RAID layout,
etc. The hardest part for me was figuring out what segment size to assign
to the array volumes, in order to match Oracle on ZFS requirements -- the
CAM software comes with some "storage profiles" preconfigured, so I just
went with those. I'm not sure those are "right", but performance seems
very fast compared to the W2100z's internal drives, as one would hope.
You'll want to Google around for "Oracle ZFS" to find best-practices
on ZFS tuning for Oracle. The ZFS recordsize parameter is supposed to
be set to 8k for data/table filesystems, and left at the default 128k
for logs.
Regards,
Marion
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