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

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.databases.oracle.server.] On 2004-12-29, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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

        If something goes wrong, then you've already lost.

        The idea should be to avoid something going wrong to begin with.

> software companies pointing fingers at each other or have
> the entire problem solved with a single iTAR?
>
> It isn't just about money.

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