On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Dana Nibby <dananrg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is ASMLIB required or recommended for NetApp's Snap Manager for Oracle > (SMO) when Oracle 11gR2 is running on a VMWare RHEL 6 host (plain vanilla > RedHat kernel; not the Unbreakable one)? Our storage admin, sysadmins and I > are all new to Oracle on RHEL 6 (we've been a RHEL 5 shop) and Oracle > running on a VMWare host. There's a question of what to do re: ASMLIB. > Likely in part precipitated by threads discussing the availability of > ASMLIB for RHEL 6 versus OL 6. But also by NetApp docs. > Our storage admin referenced the SnapManager for Oracle Best Practices doc > ASMLIB seems to be a requirement (asterisk emphasis mine): > > Wow, that's a pretty specific requirement. > "Automatic Storage Management support library (ASMLib) *must* be > used when using ASM with iSCSI or FCP on Linux." > > If this is the case, it is a requirement of NetApp, as it is not required by Oracle. iSCSI works fine without ASMLIB. I will supply the caveat that I have done this on Oracle Linux 5.5, not 6. Even so, it seems unlikely to be a requirement for anything other than NetApp. > But our sysadmins say, in a VMWare environment, that ASM diskgroups look > like plain SCSI to RHEL 6. And have suggested ASMLIB is therefore not > required. > > I am not a sysadmin, but would tend to agree with that. You probably need to create a Proof of Concept environment, and try it. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l