Re: ODM ( Oracle Disk Manager )

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1074813213.561743_at_yasure...
> Jim Gregory wrote:
>
> Think ahead. With 10g ASM a disk management program such as Veritas will
> be redundant. 10g will do everything Veritas can do and more, such as
> I/O load balancing, and all included in the standard 10g license at no
> additional cost.
>
> Why spend the money?
>
> --

Hi Daniel,

One might want to spend the money on a solution that currently exists as the said solution is kinda required now !!

I think you're jumping ahead of yourself. Although 10g is an exciting prospect and ASM sounds wonderful (Steve Adams for one rates it "the" feature of 10g), it's not quite available at the moment. Although I'm not on the beta program, several "birdies" who are suggest we might have to wait a bit more until quite a number of "show stoppers" are resolved. And there are quite a number, hence all the somewhat embarrassing delays, although I would prefer Oracle to wait and iron out the bugs that make the product unusable in a production sense, rather than rush out any premature release.

That said of course, I'm not too sure I would recommend any major production implementations with the first release of 10g (if the first release of 7, 8, 8i and 9i are any indications). So one would be a little fool hardy to implement the solution you propose in any production environment by years end (assuming 10g is actually released by years end :)

The other issue of course is pricing. I haven't yet officially heard how the pricing is going to work and what gets bundled in and what doesn't. So if one is willing to wait for a stable, mature solution from Oracle, one might still have to "spend the money" anyways.

I'm sure 10g will (eventually) be a fantastic and exciting release but meanwhile, life must go on ...

Cheers

Richard Received on Sat Jan 24 2004 - 07:02:42 CST