Re: ASM Risk / Rewards

ASM is a requirement for SE RAC. Consequently any SE RAC customers on windows will be using ASM. When I was working for them the CPA applications for the Audit Commission (http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/cpa/index.asp) were hosted on just such a RAC database, though that may have changed since.

ASM worked just fine - this would have been 10.1.0.2 or 10.1.0.3 from memory - so even relatively early ASM was pretty good. I wouldn't personally have gone with ASM at that early stage if I'd had a choice, so take my comments above as an endorsement.

As far as popularity of the platform goes, last I saw Windows users accounted for about 30-40% of Oracle's DBMS customers (by number not value). It wouldn't suprise me at all if windows+asm is rather more prevalent than (say) hpux+asm.

cheers

Niall

On 8/31/07, Alex Gorbachev <ag_at_oracloid.com> wrote:
>
> 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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