Performance gains using drives for separate db's

  • I have a sql 2005 server OLTP about 190 gig with 3 major db's being utlitzed. I am getting some extra disk space (drives) and was considering moving one or 2 of the db's to their own arrary/drives. IN making this decision any guidelines/ ideas what to look for in justifyin this move, page waits, io stats etc?

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    No it's not a joke (guy's wearing a funny costume).

  • For justifications:

    1) high io_completion wait stats

    2) high io write and io read -use sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats, this provides useful data regarding IO statistics. An example of a simple query using this view is :

    SELECT * FROM sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats(db_id,file_id)

    The results can indicate that either that the database is underperforming but that the hard drives are struggling to respond adequately.

    For OLTP- data and OLTP -log , establish the acceptable response time.Usually ,I'm looking for 5ms or less , as ideal, depending on IO subsystem architecture

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