This is a list of Dell produced whitepapers and collateral on database technology focusing on Dell EqualLogic storage arrays. Please add your Dell produced papers to this list. Add this page to your watchlist to be notified when new whitepapers are released.

Oracle

Storage Selection Guidelines for Oracle Databases (iSCSI SANs vs. Fibre Channel SANs)

This whitepaper 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 customers
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 SAN

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, improve performance and availability.

The complete paper can be found here.

Microsoft SQL

Deploying Micorsoft SQL Server on Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN

This white paper provides a reference design, 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 storage 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.