Re: Best fs for Oracle RAC

From: Steve Howard <stevedhoward_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:57:16 -0000
Message-ID: <1190419036.301570.289310@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>

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

We've had great luck with ASM on both clustered and standalone databases, and ironically enough, our sysadmins *love* it.

HTH, Steve Received on Fri Sep 21 2007 - 18:57:16 CDT