I have done your last question for a Single Instance Database, there are couple of WP on OTN Thanks -- LSC On Dec 18, 2007 5:34 PM, Zhu,Chao <zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi > We are considering the possibility of replacing veritas vxvm/vxfs with > oracle asm management, due to higher and higher license cost for veritas. > Does anyone has experience manage large database systems on ASM > instances? We have never used ASM yet so not much idea about this, just some > rough thinking yet. > The things we are thinking about are: > 1. ASM support for multipathing. So it does not treat two path of a > single disk as two seperate disks, and when one path failure, the other path > can still work as VxVM DMP does. Some hosts we have 4 paths to a single > disk; > 2. Same disk on different host can have different names. Like c4t0d36s2 on > host A, and c5t0d36s2 on host B; WIth such name changed after failover ASM > instance from host A to host B, how do we do that? > 3. How ASM instance works regarding failover from one node to another > node? The more difficult thing is, we could have some hosts with a single > oracle_hoem, but 10+ standby instances, and sometimes we need to move one > standby from node A to node B due to various reasons, will that still work > with ASM? kind of diskgroup import/export? > > Also has anything used CRS service to manage oracle HA(failover type, > not oracle RAC)? > > -- > Regards > Zhu Chao > www.cnoug.org >