Brother-RAID™ is a deep performance analysis and tuning tool for Oracle & IBM DB2 LUW databases with particular emphasis given to uncovering I/O bottlenecks and hot spots, and advice for improving physical design and object placement.

Scott Hayes, Dave Moore, the DBI team, and our customers have pooled our collective knowledge and field expertise to create this industry unique product offering. Brother-RAID™ incorporates virtually everything we have ever learned about best practices for performance analysis and database I/O tuning.

Key Features

• Deeply analyzes overall database I/O efficiency and health
• Computes performance metrics for database objects and I/O devices
• Bridges the gap between database object containers and the file systems, LUNs, and spindles that support them
• Answers the tough I/O questions:
  • For a given "slow" tablespace, which RAID disks support the tablespace?
  • And what are the performance metrics for those RAID disks?
  • For a given "slow" RAID disk, which database objects (tablespaces, tables, indexes) are impacted?
  • How can database objects be reallocated across various RAID disks to alleviate hot spots and optimize performance?

Planned Availability

• Q2 2009

More Information

Please contact us to learn more about Brother-RAID™. We value our customer’s input and would also be pleased to hear your ideas and requirements.