DASD devices

Oracle 10g: scaling the SGA size
To identify the impact of various disk setups on the transactional workload the system must run in a mode whereby the workload throughput depends on the disk throughput.
Oracle 10g: disk setup for logs and data devices
Another important setup aspect is the dependency of the transactional workload on the logging mechanism.
Oracle 10g: user scaling
To see how the system reacts to changing workloads the amount of users is scaled from 80 to 120 in steps of 20 users.
Oracle 11g versus Oracle 10g
During the test phase the new Oracle 11g version became available for Linux on System z. This offered the possibility to compare Oracle 10g with Oracle 11g.
Oracle 11g: using HyperPAV devices
When running databases with high I/O requirements on DASD devices, especially large disks, a significant degradation can appear by the subchannel busy contention.

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