Thanks Nial for responding.
If you mean continue to use a *cooked / Mounted *Cluster *File system*(CFS) in
place of the RAW ASM devices for the RAC Database,
e.g. Sun Shared QFS or the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
(SFRAC) Mounted CFS?
(This would allow continuing with the traditional datafiles)
Is Moving to & Managing the ASM Technology far more *complex* than the
existing CFS Solutions like QFS, Veritas for RAC?
Cheers
Vivek
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*From:* Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx]
*Sent:* Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:35 PM
*To:* VIVEK_SHARMA
*Cc:* kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* Re: Conversion of a 3 TB NON-RAC Database To "ASM" - RAC in
10gR2 ?
I had similar thoughts I suppose. You have a 3TB system that you want to
be highly available. What then is the motivation for moving it from one
storage technology to another, especially another more complex one. There
are a number of filesystems that you can use for RAC databases and if you
are in the market for the hardware/dr etc that is necessary to support a
highly available 3TB system you likely won't have issues with paying for
them.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.orawin.info
On 4/19/07, *VIVEK_SHARMA* <VIVEK_SHARMA@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am unable to catch your meaning Kevin, if you could be more detailed
please?
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*From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Kevin Closson
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:13 PM
*To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* RE: Conversion of a 3 TB NON-RAC Database To "ASM" - RAC in
10gR2 ?
Why not stay with files?
What could be the approach to Convert a Large *3 TB* NON-RAC
*Production*Database with Datafiles existing on cooked/Mounted Filesystem (
*UFS*) to a 3 instance RAC using "*ASM"*?
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