Re: ASM disk groups

Tim:

ASM uses SAME methodology internally and your data is striped and mirrored across ALL avaiable disks. So I donot understand why would you need a traditional split. If you need more redundancy, you can go for triple mirroring from ASM or other mirroring at EMC level.

If you are worried about the meta data failures,corruptions.. I have not seen any. But FYI, ASM Metadata also triple mirrored !

KG

On 3/7/06, Tim Onions <att755_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> Management have committed to getting a new EMC DMX3 top of the range SAN. We
> will be running a Linux RHEL4 10gR2 RAC database against it. We are some
> months away from go live so have lots of testing and such to do. However EMC
> are asking for the disk layout detalis now, and reading Oracle/EMC docs they
> say all we need is 2 ASM disk groups. The trouble is one will be 1.2Tb and
> contain all our datafiles (system, temp UNDO included) and that don't feel
> right. Changes to the EMC configuration will be expensive and impact other
> SAN usage if done later on.
>
> Does anyone have any practical experience on ASM on a SAN and are thus able
> to comment on whether Oracle docs are right in saying place all this data in
> a single disk group? Any good reasons for not opting for a more traditional
> split?
>
> TIA
>
> Tim Onions
>
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