Re: Is ASMLIB required for NetApp's SMO on RHEL 6 when using VMWare?
- From: Matthew Zito <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:10:49 -0400
You should ask the Toasters mailing list -
http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters
There's a lot of non-Oracle netapp stuff on there, but they have some
people experienced with SMO *and* a bunch of netapp employees
participate as well. I've even see the CEO of netapp post on there
from time to time.
Matt
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Dana Nibby <dananrg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is ASMLIB required or recommended for NetApp's Snap Manager for Oracle
>> (SMO) when Oracle 11gR2 is running on a VMWare RHEL 6 host (plain vanilla
>> RedHat kernel; not the Unbreakable one)? Our storage admin, sysadmins and I
>> are all new to Oracle on RHEL 6 (we've been a RHEL 5 shop) and Oracle
>> running on a VMWare host. There's a question of what to do re: ASMLIB.
>> Likely in part precipitated by threads discussing the availability of
>> ASMLIB for RHEL 6 versus OL 6. But also by NetApp docs.
>> Our storage admin referenced the SnapManager for Oracle Best Practices doc
>> ASMLIB seems to be a requirement (asterisk emphasis mine):
>>
>>
> Wow, that's a pretty specific requirement.
>
>
>> "Automatic Storage Management support library (ASMLib) *must* be
>> used when using ASM with iSCSI or FCP on Linux."
>>
>>
> If this is the case, it is a requirement of NetApp, as it is not required
> by Oracle.
> iSCSI works fine without ASMLIB. I will supply the caveat that I have done
> this on Oracle Linux 5.5, not 6.
>
> Even so, it seems unlikely to be a requirement for anything other than
> NetApp.
>
>
>> But our sysadmins say, in a VMWare environment, that ASM diskgroups look
>> like plain SCSI to RHEL 6. And have suggested ASMLIB is therefore not
>> required.
>>
>>
> I am not a sysadmin, but would tend to agree with that.
>
> You probably need to create a Proof of Concept environment, and try it.
>
>
> Jared Still
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