As noted previously, Oracle Database 10g and later releases now include
ASM for disk, greatly simplifying day-to-day management for storage. However,
working with hardware vendors in order to get proper storage configurations has
sometimes proven difficult, especially for data warehousing. Also, as disk capacities
have grown, improvements in access times have not kept pace. This has led Oracle to
develop reference configurations with several key hardware platform and storage
vendors to help provide more accurate initial sizing through an Information Appliance
Initiative.
The Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative is a series of Oracle-based
data warehousing reference configurations, with key platform and
storage providers such as HP, IBM, Sun, and EMC/Dell. Several of
Oracle??™s platform partners have also announced Oracle Optimized
Warehouses that are pretested hardware configurations with preinstalled
Oracle databases. The reference configurations include a
variety of node, system, and storage configurations offering a variety of
upgrade paths.
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