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The storage system is a critical component of any Oracle database environment. Sizing and configuring a storage system without understanding the I/O requirements can have adverse consequences. This section discusses the types of database workloads and some of the common tools available to measure, collect, and analyze database system performance which helps define the I/O requirements. For an Oracle environment, capacity requirements can be as important as the number of I/Os per second (IOPS) and throughput requirements.