Re: _ASM_ALLOW_ONLY_RAW_DISKS

  • From: Kenny Payton <k3nnyp@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:56:36 -0400

Thanks for your reply, I haven't started any testing yet.  Hopefully next
week I get an opportunity to dig a little deeper.
On Oct 16, 2014 11:29 PM, "Seth Miller" <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Kenny,
>
> I'm a little confused by your post. The
> parameter _ASM_ALLOW_ONLY_RAW_DISKS is not required for using ASM with
> files on NFS mounts. The configuration to which you are referring is not
> only common, but the recommended best practice from the Oracle
> documentation.
>
> Have you started any of your testing yet?
>
> Seth Miller
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Kenny Payton <k3nnyp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Anyone running ASM on file systems?  I have a number of databases on
>> Netapp and some on local storage but none of them are also running ASM.
>> I’ll be running some tests in the near future where I will be limited to
>> NFS.  I’d like to have some redundancy in my storage layer in addition to
>> what the NFS solution is using on the back end.  I will have access to
>> multiple separate NFS arrays and was thinking about using ASM redundancy
>> spanning separate NFS mounts ( from separate arrays ).  This is not a
>> common configuration and I’m not sure how supportable this would be
>> considering you have to set a hidden parameter to enable ASM to scan
>> files.  I’m curious to hear if anyone is actually using this other than
>> just to play around on a laptop.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kenny
>>
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>>
>>
>

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