Re: Oracle 10g (ASM vs Veritas Clustered FS)

jeff_vosburg_at_aliases.com wrote:

> If price is not an issue, which is a better solution to
> use? Oracle 10g w/Automated Storage Manager or Veritas's
> Enterprise Storage Foundation (with clustered filesystem).
>
> Big disadvantage I see to ASM is that we can only use
> raw volumes & depend entirely on RMAN for backups/restores.
>
> This is for 3 Sun v440's that hope to run Oralce 10g RAC.
>
> -JV

If something goes wrong would you rather have two different software companies pointing fingers at each other or have the entire problem solved with a single iTAR?

It isn't just about money.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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