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bphillips1
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February 18th, 2009 08:00
Multipe Luns Per RAID Group
Quick question. Years ago when we were using our 4500, it used to be bad practice to support databases by placing multiple luns on a single raid group. I know that IO reordering is now a feature in our CX-340. Has this changed the game?
We are in the process of deploying partitioning to our e-commerce database and it would be easier to implement if we can place multiple luns on a single RAID group.
We are in the process of deploying partitioning to our e-commerce database and it would be easier to implement if we can place multiple luns on a single RAID group.
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AranH1
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Posted February 18th, 2009 08:00
That being said I have had great success stacking multiple LUNs in a single RAID group for databases that are not high performance OLTP type databases. As long as the application does not require the quickest response time and can tolerate it, I think it is appropriate.
An even better way to stack LUNs would be to implement metaLUNs and create multipe RAID5 groups and stripe your database and log LUNs across multiple RAID groups. I have also done this with a lot of databases that are not very demanding as well and have one set of RAID groups supporting five separate servers each with multiple data, log and tempdb LUNs. So... it all depends on what the application can tolerate