Dear Forum Members,
I am looking for a bunch of recommendations regarding RAID10/spares configuration for the following machine:
ML350 Gen9 with 2 x Smart Array P440 w/ 4GB FBWC, spinles:
10 x 450GB SAS FC 10k
2 x 480GB SSD
Purpose: Database server (Oracle Standard with ASM) for reporting purposes
OS: RHEL
Required availability: 8AM - 8PM
Backup: yes, external (HP Microserver Gen8, 4 x 6TB RAW, FreeNAS 9.x)
As a matter of fact I see two options here:
Option 1 (without spare drives)
1st P440: RAID10 for 8x450GB SAS (database, Oracle ASM), NO SPARE DRIVES
2nd P440: RAID1 for 2x450GB SAS (OS, ext4), RAID1 for 2x480GB SSD (database, Oracle ASM), NO SPARE DRIVES
Option 2 (with a spare drive for each controller)
1st P440: RAID10 for 6x450GB SAS (database, Oracle ASM), 1 SPARE DRIVE
2nd P440: RAID1 for 2x450GB SAS (OS, ext4), RAID1 for 2x480GB SSD (database, Oracle ASM), 1 SPARE DRIVE for SAS
Unforunatelly I am not able to locate any related white paper or best practises guide.
Many thanks!
P.S. This thread has been moved from Storage > General to ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL). - Hp Forum Moderator