Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "erikw_nl@yahoo.com" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: ASM on AIX and Virtual I/O (VIO) Date: 7 Jul 2006 01:58:40 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1152262720.764872.50310@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 145.72.98.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1152262726 514 127.0.0.1 (7 Jul 2006 08:58:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:58:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 PROCLEA Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=145.72.98.1; posting-account=n96BXA0AAAAmMMARWsbCYW53dzac3NRV Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:270548 Hi, We currently are using Oracle RAC 10GR2 and ASM on AIX 5.3.3 LPAR's. In near future we plan to start using Virtual I/O (VIO) on our p-Series 570 LPAR footprints. Since ASM overwrites the first block of the disk with database information, the disk does not have any PVID information anymore, and it is difficult to recognise them on AIX level. Question: Does anbody have experience with providing disk storage through a Virtual I/O server to ASM ?. Can Virtual I/O server handle disks without PVID ? Any clues are very much appreciated. Erik