Re: sipping lightly or drinking deeply from the ASM koolaid?

DA Morgan wrote:
> Steve Howard wrote:
> > hpuxrac wrote:
> >> Some of the people in this universe actually want to do their own
> >> thinking and not blindly follow the approach of the week from various
> >> vendors.
> >>
> >> Here's a guy that makes several good points. Wonder why oracle is not
> >> using ASM in their TPC and TPH benchmarks? Hmmm. How about veritas and
> >> where does it figure into the storage universe related to oracle.
> >>
> >> http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/
> >>
> >> Do we actually want choice in what we implement or one stop shopping?
> >> Not as if we ever have any problems getting quality and timely support
> >> from any of our big vendors.
> >
> > IIRC, he is the chief architect for polyserve, which makes...HA NAS
> > filesystem software/utilities. I know some people run ASM on NAS, but
> > it always seemed a bit kludgy to me. From what I have read by him
> > (other whitepapers in addition to the link you provided), he is a
> > really smart guy, it just looks like he may not be completely unbiased.
> >
> > We have a 2.5TB non RAC data warehouse on ASM (which lives on an EMC
> > DMx), and we get 6-7ms single block reads with no
> > performance/availability issues at all. I understand the need to
> > diversify your vendors, but I also see value in the firm that provides
> > the RDBMS software also providing the filesystem to which the RDBMS I/O
> > requests will be made.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Steve
>
> I'll vote for a single-source of support and a lack of vendor
> finger-pointing every time.

Why don't you give us 3 specific examples where you were directly involved in a problem situation where file system or clusterware vendors did not give timely support and oracle support gave better resolutions?

Not something that you heard about or that one of your consulting customers ran into ... something concrete that you specifically were involved in?

It gets tiresome listening to all these unsubstantiated allegations. Kind of similar what you might hear from a marketing troll. Received on Sun Nov 26 2006 - 15:12:40 CST