In planning storage solutions for Oracle database applications, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer a range of performance and scalability options, and can be configured to meet specific application requirements for capacity, performance, and reliability. Because these systems offer such tremendous configuration flexibility, storage architects face a number of decisions in designing optimal configurations to meet Oracle database storage requirements.

To help the system planner understand how to accurately match a Unified
Storage System configuration to specific Oracle data access requirements, this article provides results for two sets of I/O-related tests: testing of fundamental system I/O service times and testing under a series of Oracle database workloads. This Sun BluePrints™ article reviews configuration criteria and also discusses some important implementation guidelines.