Datawarehouse - Physical database installation guideline

Guideline

The following general guidelines will help you set up the data warehouse physical database for performance and growth:

At a minimum, separate the data and index tablespaces. Create more tablespaces to separate heavily used tables and their indexes.
Use the maximum block and page size available for tablespaces ((for example, 32K), because it provides good overall performance and also does not impose low limits to the maximum size to which the tablespace can grow, as compared to 4K, 8K,16K sizes.
If you are using multiple disk storage systems, stripe the tablespace containers and files across as many disks as possible.
Raw devices for tablespaces provide better performance as compared to cooked file systems.
RAID-5 is known to give a good balance of performance and availability.
For Oracle databases, size the buffer pools based on content and size (number of tables and their sizes) of tablespaces.
Allocate about 75 percent of the total available server memory to the database, assuming no other application is running on the same server.