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

From: nilesh kumar <nileshkum_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:53:31 +0530
Message-ID: <7877ab4b0906180423k83f87d3p5ea6e21acdcdd501_at_mail.gmail.com>



ASM over raw would be the good option.

Thanks
Nilesh

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:42 PM, LS Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> You have OCFS2 on LVM2?
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> 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.
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> Thanks
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> LSC
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> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Maureen English <sxmte_at_email.alaska.edu>wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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.
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>> Oracle tells us that the only options are ASM or CLVM with GFS. Isn't ASM
>> only for Oracle databases, though?
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>> We are currently at release 10.2.0.4.0 for our Oracle databases.
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>> Any comments?
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>> 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.
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>> - Maureen (not a sysadmin....)
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