On Sep 21, 4:57 pm, Steve Howard <stevedhow..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 20, 1:26 pm, Andrea <pincopa..._at_no.it> wrote:
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> > 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.
> We've had great luck with ASM on both clustered and standalone
> databases, and ironically enough, our sysadmins *love* it.
Nothing ironic about it. Less work for them apart from initial setup
AND performance gains to boot : >
Everybody wins. n.b. a much reviled SA type myself...
Received on Sat Sep 22 2007 - 10:26:02 CDT
