Which three approaches would you use to improve this scenario?

High-disk IOPS (I/Os per second) rates are leading to longer execution times.
Which three approaches would you use to improve this scenario?

High-disk IOPS (I/Os per second) rates are leading to longer execution times.
Which three approaches would you use to improve this scenario?

A.
Enable Write-Back Flash Cache due to heavy DBWR usage.

B.
Enable Write-Back Flash Cache due to heavy LGWR usage.

C.
Swap hard disks to High Capacity disks.

D.
Tune the application to reduce I/O requests.

E.
LeverageIORM to give priority to critical workloads.

Explanation:
B (not A): Smart Flash Logging is a recent Exadata enhancement that provides
physical disk redo write relief in times of high LGWR activity; alone, probably not a driver for
Exadata.



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Alok Ranjan

Alok Ranjan

A,D,E

Syed Jaffer Hussain

Syed Jaffer Hussain

The correct answer is ADE

B is not a correct answer. Smart Flash Log provides a high-performance, low-latency, reliable temporary store for redo log writes.

Djamel

Djamel

B,D,E
because the feature Write-Back Flash Cache is designed for log writer and not dbwr.

Lakshman

Lakshman

its B,D,E

ANIKET

ANIKET

As mentioned in the doc provided by Vaheed it’s ADE .I agree also with Syed .

Bruno

Bruno

A: Enable Write-Back Flash Cache due to heavy DBWR usage.
B: Enable Write-Back Flash Cache due to heavy LGWR usage.
E: Leverage IORM to give priority to critical workloads

Explanation:
Write-Back Flash Cache Benefits:

It improves the write intensive operations because writing to flash cache is much faster than writing to Hard disks.
Write-Back Flash Cache transparently accelerates reads and writes for all workloads for OLTP (faster random reads and writes) and DW (faster sequential smart scans).
Write-Back Flash Cache reduce latency of redo log writes when it shares disks with data. It’s true that you can use the Smart Flash Log for redo operations, but if you not use, the Write-Back Flash Cache will performance the redo operations.
IORM to give priorities.

AKR

AKR

The answer would be A,D,E

B cannot be the answer because, Write-Back Flash Cache is only for DBWR. LGWR uses Flash Log and not Flash Cache. So for heavy LGWR usage, we need to verify that Flash Log exists and flashLog=on for the database in the IORM dbPlan.