Byron I tend to believe (personal opinion and all that crap) that an automatic so= lution can usually be improved upon by an extremely competent person who kn= ows the system inside out and all that. Trouble is, there ain't many peopl= e like that out there. So for those sites that don't have Jonathan on a le= ash, ASM might well be the easiest approach to get reasonable performance. = Thankfully, there are always going to be those big mothers of systems that= need someone to hold their hand. SELECT personal_opinion, witty_remark FROM company_requirements; :) = Pete = "Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook = "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] = On Behalf Of Byron Pearce Sent: Tuesday, 11 May 2004 4:42 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 10g - ASM Lisa: I haven't run ASM on Windows. Howevever, on Unix platforms it uses the = raw device, meaning that it has direct access to the disk. In the case = of your SAN, that would mean the "logical disk" as it is presented to = the node. In theory, that should be a distinct physical disk but in the = world of storage virtualization that is not always the case. Having = said that, if Oracle thinks that two "disks" are distinct and they are = actually different views of the same physical disk, then this can cause = ASM to make some poor performance-related decisions regarding its = striping and mirroring. I have experimented with it, but haven't tried to implement it in any = kind of production capacity. Some of the major arguments put forth for = the use of ASM include the ability to easily add disks, distribute = I/O's, stripe, mirror, etc. all maintained and handled by the database. = I can see some advantages for the small shops where they want to = allocate a pool of disks and leave Oracle to run on them without all of = the disk fine-tuning, but I am not convinced about larger enterprise = configurations where you're trying to squeeze every last drop of juice = out of the lemon. I am still on the fence and haven't developed a = religious feeling about it yet as I am still studying the implications. Hope this helps a bit. Koivu, Lisa wrote: >Hello all,=3D20 > >I'm currently installing 10g on Windows 2003. Anyone using Automatic >Storage Management? =3D20 > >I read this in the ASM documentation (below), and I'm concerned because >a LUN is a logical volume. I wonder if implementing ASM is just an >unnecessary pain for a SAN environment, especially considering the >enormous SAN cache. =3D20 > >Way back when I didn't have grey hair and I worked on Unix, all my >devices were logical volumes. That was standard in every Unix shop I >worked in. I get the feeling I'm missing something or misinterpreting >this paragraph below. It sounds like it wants direct access to disks, >period. > >I am not a SAN, Unix or Windoze expert. Comments, anyone? =3D20 > >Thanks > > > >With Automatic Storage Management, the definition of the logical volumes >of a storage array is critical to database performance. Automatic >Storage Management cannot optimize database data placement when the >storage array disks are subdivided or aggregated. Aggregating and >subdividing the physical volumes of an array into logical volumes can >hide the physical disk boundaries from Automatic Storage Management. >Consequently, careful consideration of storage array configuration is >required. > > >Lisa Koivu >Sr. Monkey >Orlando, FL, USA > > > >"The sender believes that this E-Mail and any attachments were free of =3D= >any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This =3D >message and its attachments could have been infected during =3D >transmission. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the =3D= >recipient accepts full responsibility for taking proactive and remedial =3D= >action about viruses and other defects. 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