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Best Practices for Running Oracle RAC Database With ASM on IBM DS4800 Storage Subsystems

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Overview Owning state-of-the-art storage subsystems is not enough to excel in today's competitive business climate. Even with the best storage subsystems, the continuous demands upon the IT environment can create challenges unused capacity on expensive equipment becomes a financial waste. The purpose of this paper is to detail optimum performance settings for IBM DS4800 storage subsystems with the Oracle Database application. This paper identifies parameters for optimizing a high-performance storage subsystem.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Database Management

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