On Sep 22, 9:55 am, Andrea <pincopa..._at_no.it> wrote:
> gerryt ha scritto:
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> > 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...
> so, evaluate these info, ASM seems like everyone.
> But which defects have ASM?
"allora"... asmcmd perhaps for starters. Again tho' Im new to ASM so
if there are better
ways to work with ASM after its initially setup then someone could
perhaps chime in.
Received on Sat Sep 22 2007 - 15:26:02 CDT
