Re: 10g ASM - does it work practically?

"Cookie Monster" <cookie.monster_at_somewhere.com> wrote in message news:<30dpnkF2un3voU1_at_uni-berlin.de>...
> Hi,
>
> I read the marketing hype and checked the documentation, but I want to know
> does ASM (Automatic storage management) in 10g really work? I'm looking at
> upgrading from 9i to 10g and one feature that does stand out is ASM, it
> sounds nice, but practically I want to know if anyone has used it and does
> it give you the benefits you expected? Easy management of tablespaces and
> improved disk access performance (I'm not keen on raw devices you see). Or
> is it like - well I never noticed the difference?.
>
> Thanks for any feedback,
> Steve.

Don't forget to check the bug database on metalink, it's still being de-boneheaded, er, finding misfeatures that only customers will use.

jg

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@home.com is bogus.  "So, customer start playing with the new disks
added.  She dropped the disks.  During this operations the instance
was rebooted.   Customer run alter diskgroup drop disk command, but
after a restart the disk  was still recovered as part of the original
diskgroup." - duplicate 10.1 bug.