ADSM-L

Re: Poor database performance - update

2003-04-01 16:27:31
Subject: Re: Poor database performance - update
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:27:27 -0500
>With TSM the basic disk tuning theory, in a sentence,
>66or some years has been "spread DB, LOG and Disk Pool
>out over as many separate disks/spindles as possible".
>
>Well as we are now getting 73 and 144GB disks,
>and who knows what's next, then how are we TSM
>Admins supposed to do that?

Buy disks sized to best suit your purposes, and subdivide
larger ones to have more logical units (partition).
Partitioning does not necessarily negate parallelism, as
judicious allocation can increase the proability that
access is spread over physical access arms.

  Richard Sims, BU

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