Re: EMC RAID-5

--- Rao_Yalamanchili@apsnet.com > wrote: > > > > >Hi, Gurus >We are using currently HP-UX 11.0, V 7200 and 64 bit O/S. We are using IDS >7.31 FC2. >We have over 160 GB database. We have 4 physical CPUs and 3 CPUs assigned >to informix. > >We are planning to migrate the data to EMC CLARiiON System 1 and RAID-5. > >Could someone please let me know pros and cons about it. > >I have tables with more than 35 GB size. I fragmented these tables into 3 >fragments. > >I am new to this RAID-5 system. I think RAID-5 works in same concept of >informix fragmentation. WE are going to have disks with 18 GB size. We are >going to mirroring the disks. There will be 9 GB space available in each >disc. > >How can I allocate the spaces. I confused here because of RAID-5. >Can I create a single space for that table and assign 5 discs with 23 >chunks, RAID-5 is going to create 5 threads to query. >Am I correct? >or Can I make it 5 fragments, I mean into 5 db spaces > >Please advice me ASAP. You might want to search the archive of this list for anything by Art Kagel with RAID in the subject ASAP. == Maintainer of the procrastinator's FAQ. Well, maybe tomorrow I will be. _____________________________________________________________ Want a new web-based email account ? ---> http://www.firstlinux.net