Re: Any comments on database/file system storage options?

From: LS Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:12:38 +0200
Message-ID: <6e9345580906180012y7c00fc0fu2e3581e05a47a434_at_mail.gmail.com>



You have OCFS2 on LVM2?

That is not supported either in single node or clustered AFAIK but if you use the lvm2-cluster package I think it is (you better open a SR). With a supported CLVM you can perform online resizing.

Thanks

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LSC




On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Maureen English <sxmte_at_email.alaska.edu>wrote:


> Hi,
>
> We have 3 RHEL5 machines and are trying to decide how to correctly
> configure
> them as a clustered system that will run a variety of applications, as well
> as many Oracle databases.
>
> Oracle tells us that the only options are ASM or CLVM with GFS. Isn't ASM
> only for Oracle databases, though?
>
> We are currently at release 10.2.0.4.0 for our Oracle databases.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Note that we currently have these 3 machines set up with LVM2 and Oracle
> Clusterware, but are not running any RAC databases, just single instance
> databases. The problem we've run into is in trying to resize the LUNs.
>
> - Maureen (not a sysadmin....)
>
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