Re: ASM

Reasons *for* ASM that I can see. I agree with most of your negatives :).

• Ease of file management - which is mostly OMF rather than ASM per se. (that's a disagreement!)
• Ease of disk management - having the ability to migrate a db from one set of physical disks to another witout downtime is very, very cool.
• On windows avoiding the whole drive letter management thing.

Now against that, and in addition to Jared's points. I'd ask why consider a storage solution that *only* works for Oracle files (and even then not all Oracle files. I keep other files on my servers you know. Including stuff you'd expect to be there like alert.logs, cron scripts and so on.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Dan Norris <dannorris_at_dannorris.com>wrote:
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>> If you would, please share with us your reasons to avoid ASM. Based on
>> your response, I'm guessing that the reasons might include "because that's
>> the way I've always done it".
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> Personally, I don't use it as it adds more complexity to our environment.
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> We (by which I really me 'I') don't need to add any more complexity.
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> * Additional instance for ASM
> * file management is simpler
> * storage admins have easy direct access to see what's on disk.
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> I'm sure there are some rebuttals to this.
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> Let's hear 'em!
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> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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