Re: Best fs for Oracle RAC

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1190733968.794755_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com...
> hjr.pythian_at_gmail.com wrote:
>> On Sep 25, 1:45 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> Well, just to abort the mud-pie contest before it really starts, how
>>>> about explaining **how** ASM makes migration easier? That is, how it
>>>> makes turning a Windows database into a Solaris one (say) any easier
>>>> than it would be in a non-ASM environment...;
>>> Your use of Windows and Solaris confuses the issue. You are asking
>>> about operating systems and ASM is about storage. And not the
>>> storage of your Oracle binaries.
>>
>> No, I don't think it does confuse the issue any further than it is
>> already. That was, in fact, precisely the point!
>>
>> The original poster wrote, "yes, and i think that ASM could be easy
>> for migration to another platform. "
>
> And I took that to mean storage platform given the topic, ASM, is
> storage. The dangers inherent in the use of a common language. <g>

What makes you think the topic is ASM?

Migration in general could be about OS, hardware, or even geese. But when it comes to Oracle database platform migration, it is almost always about OS. Received on Tue Sep 25 2007 - 22:16:17 CDT