Sallie,
I've chosen to stay with GI/Oracle Restart/ASM, so that I can keep my
skills up-to-date. I think it is good experience to have under my belt. I
believe the only real complexity it will add for you backup person (while
you are on vacation) is when they might need to add disk space. But that
shouldn't be too hard to document. If you want them to be up to speed on
patching, than you might want to reduce the complexity.
Jay
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 8:55 AM Sallie Cottingham <
Sallie.Cottingham@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi –
We currently have a 2 node Oracle RAC and will be going to a Stand Alone
DB simply because RAC is overkill for the applications we have. I also
have 2 stand alone DBs and for those I’m using ASM and Oracle Restart. I
like ASM and also like the tools that can be used with Oracle Restart
(srvctl, crsctl). But, in looking to move to a pure stand alone
environment, I’d like to get your opinions on using ASM and Oracle Restart
vs using regular file storage. We are a smaller shop and I’m the only
official Oracle DBA and I’ve had a hard time trying to get the SQL Server
DBA to engage enough in order for me to feel like I have a good backup
resource. So I guess I’m wondering if I just went to simple standalone
with no GI/Oracle Restart/ASM, do you think that would be easier to manage
for someone who is not as familiar with Oracle? And also would that be
easier for upgrades and patching? I’ve always used GI/ASM so I’m just
trying to look at it from all perspectives – so I can take a vacation
without being worried about who’s minding the shop!
I would appreciate your thoughts on this.
Thanks!
*Sallie Cottingham, OCP*
Database Administrator
Comptroller of the Treasury
Technology Solutions
425 Fifth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37243-34001
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