Thank you Art & Paul... I have passed that information to our sys-admins
and am waiting for their feedback.
--David
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Art Kagel <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote:
> No ZFS, no Zvols, no metasets. Just RAID10 the drives to build a very big,
> very fast, very safe, mirrored virtual drive. Then partition the virtual
> drive into as many partitions as you want (for more than six you'll need a
> virtual disk manager like Solaris Solstice or something like it) and create
> RAW (ie character) device driver files for each partition. Finally, create
> symbolic links for each chunk device in a logical place other than /dev
> (like in a subdirectory under the parent directory under which you created
> the Informix install directory). Use the links to define your chunks and
> Poof!
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> Oh, and remember that the lifespan of an SSD drive used for databases is
> about four years, no more, so plan on planned replacements sometime in 2017
> making sure that one side of every mirrored pair is always a newer drive
> than the other (and from a different production lot number!)
>
> Art
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> Art S. Kagel
> Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com)
> Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/
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> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Informix DBA <in4mixdba@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Yes we want to use raw. Though the Sys Admin wants to know how present
> the
> > raw disk to the database on Solaris (technically, Informix is on a
> solaris
> > 10 zone which is on a solaris 11 global). We use 2 GB chunks currently.
> > He was using terms like zfs, zvols and metasets. Any recommendations?
> >
> > --David
> >
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Art Kagel <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > RAW is ALWAYS best (OK maybe not on windows).
> > >
> > > Art
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> > > Art S. Kagel
> > > Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com)
> > > Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/
> > >
> > > Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own
> opinions
> > > and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor
> any
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> > > implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of
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> > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Informix DBA <in4mixdba@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
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> > > > Hello,
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> > > > We are running Informix 11.50.FC6 on Solaris 10. Our sys-admins just
> > got
> > > > new SSD storage to test for our Informix Environment. What do you
> > > > recommend for them to present them as raw chunks to the OS? What
> would
> > > > give us best performance?
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> > > > Thank You,
> > > >
> > > > --Dave
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