Re: ASM Risk / Rewards

Hi,

Just a quick point. A site I worked at last year was using ASM on Win 2K3 with
Oracle 10g (non RAC) without any issues. One major plus in this case was the
ability to use a stripe size of 1 MB whereas native Windows volume management
had a max stripe size of I think either 64K or 128K.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Chris



Quoting Alex Gorbachev <ag@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:


Oracle on Windows... well this is more of a religious topic and I'm a
bit religious here even though I happen to administer few Windows
environments. :-)

I don't have any experience with ASM on Windows (I wouldn't even think
that it works but apparently it supposed to). I also don't know anyone
using ASM on Windows from which I can conclude that relying on storage
stack that very few Oracle customers use is a recipe for disaster.

Now if I add RAC there... Hm.. some people travel god knows where to
find some exotic adventures but here is an excellent opportunity! ;-)

Windows + Oracle + RAC + ASM = WORA (what a fun project)   %)

PS: Sorry for being a little sarcastic but I couldn't resist!


 From: steve montgomerie [mailto:stmontgo@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 11:00 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ASM Risk / Rewards


Good day,
We're doing the PeopleSoft upgrade thing which includes an upgrade from
Oracle 9i to 10G Rel2.

Our environment will be Windows 2003 with RAC 10G.

As part of the upgrade I see from the Oracle Docs that Oracle recommends
using ASM. I've been reading researching and testing
on a smaller machine getting read for the new hardware.



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