Re: ASM Risk / Rewards

Hi,

Just a quick point. A site I worked at last year was using ASM on Win 2K3 with Oracle 10g (non RAC) without any issues. One major plus in this case was the ability to use a stripe size of 1 MB whereas native Windows volume management had a max stripe size of I think either 64K or 128K.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Chris

Quoting Alex Gorbachev <ag_at_oracloid.com>:

> Oracle on Windows... well this is more of a religious topic and I'm a
> bit religious here even though I happen to administer few Windows
> environments. :-)
>
> I don't have any experience with ASM on Windows (I wouldn't even think
> that it works but apparently it supposed to). I also don't know anyone
> using ASM on Windows from which I can conclude that relying on storage
> stack that very few Oracle customers use is a recipe for disaster.
>
> Now if I add RAC there... Hm.. some people travel god knows where to
> find some exotic adventures but here is an excellent opportunity! ;-)
>
> Windows + Oracle + RAC + ASM = WORA (what a fun project) %)
>
> PS: Sorry for being a little sarcastic but I couldn't resist!
>
>> From: steve montgomerie [mailto:stmontgo_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 11:00 PM
>> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>> Subject: ASM Risk / Rewards
>>
>>
>> Good day,
>> We're doing the PeopleSoft upgrade thing which includes an upgrade from
>> Oracle 9i to 10G Rel2.
>>
>> Our environment will be Windows 2003 with RAC 10G.
>>
>> As part of the upgrade I see from the Oracle Docs that Oracle recommends
>> using ASM. I've been reading researching and testing
>> on a smaller machine getting read for the new hardware.
>
>
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Chris Dunscombe

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