Grid, ASM, ClusterFS

From: Alexander Boettcher <alexander.boettcher_at_no-spam.inform.fh-hannover.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:02:44 +0100
Message-ID: <dmmlbu$j3b$1@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>

Hi newsgroup,

I'm in charge of installing an _experimental_ grid environment using Oracle10g on SLES9.
Sadly I'm new to Oracle at all and now several questions arise. I hope someone could help me out with this:

Is it necessary to use a cluster filesystem like OCFS or does it work with a "normal" FS like Ext3?
Is it necessary to use ASM? In my understanding ASM makes it easier to move databases between nodes. But isn't this task done by oracle itself somehow?
We already installed normal enterprise version of 10g, a seperate database is running on each server. Is Grid-funcionality achieved by simply installing a grid-control server and installing the grid agents onto each database-server? Perhaps one could migrate the databases (empty) afterwards into a grid-version?

Thanks in advance,

best regards,
Alex

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Received on Thu Dec 01 2005 - 06:02:44 CST