Many of the traditional architecture decisions and compromises you have had to make with traditional storage are not relevant on a Everpure FlashArray. You do not need to sacrifice performance to gain resiliency, nor do you need to change existing policies that you may already have in place. In other words, there is no wrong way to deploy Oracle on Everpure; you can expect performance benefits out of the box.
- That said, there are some configuration choices you can make to increase flexibility and maximize performance:
- Use the Everpure recommended multipath.conf settings.
- Set the scheduler, rq_affinity, and entropy for the Everpure devices.
- Separate different I/O work loads to dedicated LUNS for enhanced visibility.
- If you use a filesystem for data files, use ext4.
- Always run calibrate_io.