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Re: sipping lightly or drinking deeply from the ASM koolaid?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:41:20 -0800
Message-ID: <1164732080.119418@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


Steve Howard wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> pdxkevinc_at_gmail.com wrote:

>> I am not unbiased and I hope it hasn't sounded as though I'm presenting
>> myself as such on my blog. I do try my best to fortify all my positions
>> with as much fact as possible though.
>>

>
> I always enjoy reading your content, whether on your blog or
> whitepapers I have found on the net that you have written. It's always
> well thought out, and extremely informative. It's just that by
> definition, polyserve competes in the storage management space. I
> apologize if I offended you, as I noted, I always enjoy your
> commentary.
>
>> As an aside, do all your RAC SGAs have the same ASM extent pointer
>> array content?
>>
>>

>
> We are in the beginning process of building our first *RAC* on ASM
> storage (we just completed the install about a month ago). During
> heavy performance testing it got as high as 3GB, but we didn't receive
> any ORA-4031's (7.5GB max sga). We didn't have to resize our datafiles
> (the cause of bug #4237613, DOCID 390251.1), so maybe we escaped
> unscathed :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve

The question I would like to append to this is "has PolyServe patched things up with Oracle?" It wasn't that long ago that Oracle's attitude toward PolyServe made PolyServe a risky choice. I've seen no evidence that anything has changed.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Tue Nov 28 2006 - 10:41:20 CST

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