custom disk layout help ...

[droodle]

Can i have some recommendations on custom layout for a dev server i'm building.

solaris 9
40 gb disk
ultra10
1 gb mem

server is to run ehealth which uses an oracle database.

many thanks.

 

[mrn]

See

http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0101/SunOracle.pdf

for best practice

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

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[droodle]

Thanks .. but there is no info there to help me.

what i'm asking is for a 40 gb disk how would you layout

/
swap
/opt

any others etc ?

thanks.

 

[mrn]

Considering you only have one disk, layout will have little effect on performance. As you would normally have data / redo... on seperate disks. I'd go for something along the lines of

c0t0d0s0 / 500Mb
c0t0d0s1 swap 4000Mb
c0t0d0s2 overlap
c0t0d0s3 /usr 2000Mb
c0t0d0s4 /opt 1000Mb
c0t0d0s5 /var 1500Mb
c0t0d0s6 /oracle rest

if your printing loads of stuff up the size of /var to 2000Mb

There is no right or wrong, do you use volume manager?


Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[marrow]

Just for a rough guide: -
you will need at least 9Gb just for your oracle /dboracle s/w and how big is your dbase, xGb? Will you want oracle archiving?

Root=4Gb, swap=4Gb, var=2Gb
So 10Gb for Solaris, 10Gb for oracle s/w, 5Gb area for logs?10gb area for you database.

Adjust accordingly, maybe increase swap a bit