Re: Any comments on database/file system storage options?

  • From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sxmte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:02:48 -0500

Does Oracle say that OCFS2 wont work?  I think it will...

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Maureen English <sxmte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have 3 RHEL5 machines and are trying to decide how to correctly
> configure
> them as a clustered system that will run a variety of applications, as well
> as many Oracle databases.
>
> Oracle tells us that the only options are ASM or CLVM with GFS.  Isn't ASM
> only for Oracle databases, though?
>
> We are currently at release 10.2.0.4.0 for our Oracle databases.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Note that we currently have these 3 machines set up with LVM2 and Oracle
> Clusterware, but are not running any RAC databases, just single instance
> databases.  The problem we've run into is in trying to resize the LUNs.
>
> - Maureen (not a sysadmin....)
>
>
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>


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