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Re: Grid, ASM, ClusterFS

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:01:38 -0800
Message-ID: <1133456485.826630@jetspin.drizzle.com>


Alexander Boettcher wrote:
> 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:
>
> a) Is it necessary to use a cluster filesystem like OCFS or does it work
> with a "normal" FS like Ext3?
>
> b) 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?
>
> c) 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

You seem to be confusing RAC and GRID. Grid has nothing to do with file systems. ASM is for managing RAW devices and has nothing to do with any file system.

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Received on Thu Dec 01 2005 - 11:01:38 CST

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