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MIG31
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12 years ago

disk group

hallo Symantec world just curious whats the advantage of having a single disk group over multiple diskgroups in a SG

 

thanks,

MIG31

  • We normally create diskgroups according to usage. 

    For example, all disks for one Oracle instance will be added to one diskgroup.

    Therefore, an Oracle server with multiple instances will have one diskgroup for each instance.

    Diskgroups are also important when replication is introduced. All disks belonging to an application need to be in the same diskgroup to ensure consistency, especially where asyncronous replication is done.

    We recently had to convince a customer that different diskgroups for databases and logs had to be joined before replication could be enabled. 

  • Hi mig31,

    It's hard to say advantage or disadvantage to have single disk group than multiple disk groups within a service group.

    When service group online, VCS import and enable all disk groups configured in it. Single disk group with many disks and volumes will cost more times to wait for the disk group resource online. But multiple disk groups will have multiple disk group resources online to complete service group online.

    So it depends on your requirement and specific circumstances of configuration of service group and disk groups.

  • Thanks stinsong for the info it cleared my curiosity

    mig31

  • We normally create diskgroups according to usage. 

    For example, all disks for one Oracle instance will be added to one diskgroup.

    Therefore, an Oracle server with multiple instances will have one diskgroup for each instance.

    Diskgroups are also important when replication is introduced. All disks belonging to an application need to be in the same diskgroup to ensure consistency, especially where asyncronous replication is done.

    We recently had to convince a customer that different diskgroups for databases and logs had to be joined before replication could be enabled. 

  • I don't think there will much time difference.  I would say comparing :

    1. importing 1 diskgroup with 2 disks
    2. importing 2 diskgroups each with 1 disk 

    That 1 would be quicker, if for 2 you imported sequentially but in VCS you can import the 2 diskgroups simultenously, so then 2 would probably be marginally quicker, but I think there would probably be little in it.

    I would say the difference is logical.  If the service group contains 2 Apps, then I would place each app in its own diskgroup and this also means, if you want to split into 2 service groups in the future, then this is much easier.  If the service group only contains 1 App, then I would place the disks in 1 diskgroup, but I know customers who for Oracle, put data disks in 1 diskgroup and logs in a another to keep the 2 separate.  This is bad practice as you can keep data on separate disks in a single diskgroup, so there is no need for 2 diskgroups and if you later implement VVR then data and logs MUST be in the same diskgroup.

    Mike

  • Thanks Marianne Van Den Berg and MikeBounds that was so informative. Every day is a learning process. I have learned alot from the symantec community

    Thanks

    mig31