This page offers a list of Dell-produced white papers and collateral on database technology focusing on Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays. Please add your Dell-produced papers to this list. And add this page to your watchlist to be notified when new white papers are released.

Oracle

Dell Storage Selection Guidelines for Oracle Databases, Dell Inc., August 2008
(including iSCSI SANs versus Fibre Channel SANs)

This white paper provides storage-selection guidelines designed to help administrators choose an appropriate storage technology based on their requirements. The guidelines were established based on lab experiments and database workload simulations that were
performed by the Dell Database Solutions Engineering team on various storage products. These guidelines not only help administrators
to select the appropriate storage product and technology but also to optimize for best cost-to-performance ratio according to the
database workloads that they intend to run. The intended audiences of this white paper are storage administrators, IT managers,
and system consultants.

The complete paper can be found here.


Deploying Oracle 10g RAC on Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs

This white paper provides an architectural overview and configuration guidelines for deploying a two-node Oracle 10g R2 Enterprise Edition Real Application Clusters (RAC) database with Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Enterprise or Standard Edition with SP2 on Dell PowerEdge™ servers with Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV iSCSI storage. Using the knowledge gained through joint development, testing, and support with Oracle, this Dell Reference Configuration documents “best practices” that can help speed Oracle solution implementation and help simplify operations and improve performance and availability.

The complete paper can be found here.

Microsoft SQL

Deploying Microsoft SQL Server on Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs

This white paper provides a reference design, an architectural overview, and configuration guidelines for deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition with SP2 with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2. This architecture is presented as an integrated solution that uses Dell PowerEdge R805 servers and Dell EqualLogic PS5000-series iSCSI SAN arrays. This technical report summarizes best practices and makes recommendations that provide a robust starting point to build a database solution that offers high performance, scalability, and reliability.

The complete paper can be found here.