It's important to understand how well the underlying I/O architecture is performing versus its expected I/O rates, before tuning an Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11gR2) for optimal I/O performance. Jim Czuprynski discusses how to implement a suitable extra-database I/O performance test and then capture the actual I/O performance results.

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