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On Sep 20, 1:26 pm, Andrea <pincopa..._at_no.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> we have been to value some types of Oracle RAC solutions in according to
> which filesystem to use on SAN in cluster environment with HP-UX (or
> Linux) platform.
> HP says that there are this options to choose (in order of
> importance):
>
> raw device
> oracle ASM
> OCFS (only for linux)
> NFS in high avail.
>
> The our choice incline to ASM, because i think that this avoid problems
> with platform compatibility and for easier management of datafiles.
>
> I would like to know if there are some papers that explain these
> solutions of filesystem, also they defects.
> The products that we have to install are Oracle DB 10g with RAC.
>
> thanks.
> Andrea
RAW partitions give the best performance but take more administration and up front design. Received on Thu Sep 20 2007 - 14:08:07 CDT