On 2006-06-14, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
> Mladen Gogala wrote:
>> Heikki Siltala wrote:
>>> Mladen Gogala kirjoitti:
>>>> Well, let me re-iterate then: what do you need ASM for?
>>>
>>> + to get better performance: S.A.M.E should provide better performance
>>> than a failed attempt to distribute IO load evenly over the disks by
>>> manually relocating the datafiles
>>
>> Any volume manager can do load balancing today.
>
> True and not true. True they all do load balancing in some fashion.
>
> Not true that they can dynamically manage Oracle datafiles in a manner
> as useful and transparent as ASM.
A storage solution is going to ultimately manage your datafiles
at the block level. Anything that Oracle can do in this regard, any
storage vendor can do just as well. More than likely, the storage vendor
has been doing this a lot longer than Oracle has.
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Received on Thu Jun 22 2006 - 12:08:34 CDT
