On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Rene Romero Benavides <rene.romero.b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First of all, thank you so much for your valuable time. > > It probably does, though we have a requirement of having available at least > twice the expected database size, and 50% of disk space overhead sounds like > too much for us to take in a replicated SAN environment and a PostgreSQL > master/slave - streaming replication setup. > > our options regarding disks availability at the moment are: > a 3 disks array dedicated for PostgreSQL in any RAID configuration we'd > like > OR > a 10 disks array shared with 14 virtual machines running the middleware > layer and the application infrastructure in a RAID 5 configuration > > again, I do really appreciate your kindly help. Whatever you do do NOT put postgresql on a RAID-5 array if you can help it. Can you steal a few disks for a 4 or 5 disk RAID 1E? -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin