RE: Cluster File System Versus ASM for RAC Deployment in Production?... Pros & Cons

  • From: VIVEK_SHARMA <VIVEK_SHARMA@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Hameed, Amir" <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:55:01 +0530

More info please Hamid, folks on Comparison between CFS , ASM in terms of what 
made you choose CFS over ASM, Performance, scalability, availability, 
migration, ease of use, backups, need for training, nature of outages on CFS 
etc.

Any Docs / Links?

Cheers

________________________________
From: Hameed, Amir [mailto:Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:49 AM

Vivek,
I can speak for the CFS as we are running one from Veritas. Your admin should 
be properly trained otherwise you may see outages during business hours.

________________________________
Folks

Additionally does ASM administration need additional Skill Set / Training 
versus administration on Cluster File System(CFS), for RAC?
If so, in what context?

________________________________
Folks
For subsequent RAC Deployment in ver 10gR2, A Banking customer needs to take a 
decision on use of Cluster file system versus ASM?

Prima-facie, How do the 2 compare in terms of Performance, scalability, 
availability, migration, ease of use, backups, need for training etc.

Any Docs, Links will help.

Currently Production Deployment info:-

 *   NON-RAC with Oracle ver 9.2,
 *   Solaris 10.
 *   Database size if 5 TB approx.
 *   Daily peak load of 20,000 Concurrent sessions connecting to the Database 
via Shared Servers (MTS).
 *   Database exists on the default Unix File system (UFS),
 *   Machine - SF25K SUN Server.
 *   Storage Box - Sun Store Edge 9980 V
 *   Sun Cluster filesystem is QFS



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