Re: ASM setup of shared disks for RAC

Joop wrote:
> It appears that ASM performs functions that a RAID normally performs.
> So if you have 6 disks in a shared network storage device, should one
> configure this is as 6 different drives and let ASM handle the
> mirroring, etc. or set up a RAID to create one highly available disk
> volume for use in ASM?

Depends.

Remember ASM does far more than RAID or an LVM. It also handles the load balancing of disk i/o.

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