Locating Oracle Home

This is more of a Best Practices question
Environment:
Oracle 8i on Solaris
Clariion storage array disks
10G physical Memory
To ensure high availability and decrease the coupling with the server, we have place the oracle home not on the local scsi disks but on the storage array connected by a fiber channel.
1.Does oracle need to read binaries from Oracle home directory on a ongoing basis or is it just read and cached when the database is started?
2.Should we consider housing the udump,bdump and cdump folders out of the Oracle Home to avoid any contention?
3. Is it always recommended to have the Oracle Home on the local drive of the server?

Referencing your questions
3- You can place the Oracle home anywhere you want it on your disk farm. The Oracle binaries are not hit that heavily.
2- I would move bdump, cdump, and udump to their own file system to prevent their filling Oracle home with dump files.
1- Mostly the binaries are read on startup but some DLL objects may be read when needed.
Most of the Oracle related activity will be on the database datafiles. The Oracle binary is relatively unimportant from an IO point of view.
HTH -- Mark D Powell --

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