CHAPTER 15Configuring the Hardware for Linux and Oracle

Tuning the hardware is as important as tuning the operating system and tuning the Oracle instance. But what is hardware tuning? Hardware tuning involves proper installation and configuration of the server hardware and storage. Purchasing sufficient storage capacity and configuring it properly is also crucial to the proper performance and, in some cases, such as with Oracle RAC, the functionality of your Oracle system.

Hardware Tuning Fundamentals

Hardware tuning picks up from where hardware sizing, which you learned about in Chapter 4, leaves off. Where hardware sizing is the act of determining how much and what kind of hardware to purchase, hardware tuning is the act of properly configuring ...

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