Re: Rac on Linux

JEDIDIAH wrote:

> Like what exactly?

You talk about 'the SA turns over the SAN to the DBA'. To me, that implies 'before the database is installed'. EMC, McData, Hitachi, NetApp and the others all have config and load analyzers in the product for that. Talk to the respective reps for more details.

For the live load simulation, ASM is just another application and is tested under load exactly the same as any other application. Use loadrunner or equiv. The capture and analysis is no more difficult that using raw devices, other than the app (ASM) doing it's own load balancing on top of pure disk interaction. Obviously, since ASM has it's own balancing technique, as do a number of SANs, pick one ... otherwise the two will trip each other up.

An article on this topic:
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1172225,00.html

You don't trust Oracle ASM; I don't mistrust it. You are more comfortable with the information and interface from the tools and utilities you've used before; for my purposes ASM's interface and information is quite satisfactory.

We're going no where on this - each point has a counterpoint. Why don't we just leave it at that.? Received on Thu Oct 12 2006 - 15:42:01 CDT