Re: ASM of any significant value when switching to Direct NFS / NetApp / non-RAC?

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:37:47 -0500
Message-ID: <CAJvnOJbaOhGkVeqCWtDxZFsEd26-mTho3XO41yMrgShpf4SngA_at_mail.gmail.com>

For me, the really valuable pieces of ASM are the ability to add and remove devices without taking downtimes and without having to worry about moving files around. If you have a high quality storage system that does that all behind the scenes already, I can see where it might not be an advantage. Most places I work with dont have that ability. On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Wayne Smith <wts_at_maine.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Dana Nibby <dananrg_at_yahoo.com> wrote, in
> part:
> > ... When you say there is more to ASM than striping, what functionality
> is
> > that?
> >
>
> I'm not an ASM expert by any stretch of the imagination, nor do I use it!
> But I'll write here a little, anyway :-(
>
> There's been lots written and available on the web on this subject. A
> search "why oracle asm" yielded many articles.
>
> ASM seems give one a level of indirection, pretty much removing the
> underlying storage complexity and putting storage more in tune with Oracle
> tools, concepts and syntax.
>
> I'm not at all surprised that your storage administrators don't want it.
> It's foreign to them and different from everything else they do.
> Everything about ASM is a complexity to them, I suspect.
>
> Should ASM be a DBA function rather than storage admin function? I don't
> know, I'm just asking, but unless you have a lot of databases, I can see
> where your typical storage admin would see ASM as a black hole of time and
> complexity, whereas the DBA could appreciate its value, albeit a black hole
> of time and complexity. ;-)
>
> Cheers, Wayne
>
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