Re: Is ASMLIB required for NetApp's SMO on RHEL 6 when using VMWare?
From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:37:49 -0700
Message-ID: <CAORjz=OtuUowqxWdFwrYsth0wDPC1wN0Qok9eoDvL7hdkCHSdQ_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:17 AM, CRISLER, JON A <JC1706_at_att.com> wrote:
> I believe you need oracleasm installed, and I would suggest having it as
> it makes the sysadmin and dba's job easier for disk administration. One of
> the issues you might run into is persistant names for WWN, disk volume
> etc., and oracleasm helps keep that straight. It also makes it easier if
> you are adding and removing disks and doing disk migration (like EMC to
> NetApp, or from one NetApp frame to another etc.) without any downtime.
>
>
If you are referring to its use with SnapManager I can do nothing but defer, as I know nothing about that product.
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:37:49 -0700
Message-ID: <CAORjz=OtuUowqxWdFwrYsth0wDPC1wN0Qok9eoDvL7hdkCHSdQ_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:17 AM, CRISLER, JON A <JC1706_at_att.com> wrote:
> I believe you need oracleasm installed, and I would suggest having it as
> it makes the sysadmin and dba's job easier for disk administration. One of
> the issues you might run into is persistant names for WWN, disk volume
> etc., and oracleasm helps keep that straight. It also makes it easier if
> you are adding and removing disks and doing disk migration (like EMC to
> NetApp, or from one NetApp frame to another etc.) without any downtime.
>
>
If you are referring to its use with SnapManager I can do nothing but defer, as I know nothing about that product.
As for oracleasm making disk administration easier, it doesn't have to be that way.
udev works fine - just create a directory /dev/oracle or somesuch, and when
new disks are added just create
a softlink to the /dev/oracle/some-meaningful-name for partitions meant for
oracle.
Jared
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