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.-- Alex Gorbachev, Oracle DBA Brewer, The Pythian Group http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex http://www.oracloid.com BAAG party - www.BattleAgainstAnyGuess.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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