Re: Why I don't like ASM
- From: Samuel Guiñales Cristobal <samuel.guinales@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:49:48 +0100
More simple reason, with time, asm has become in standard, build in oracle
package with RAC, is easier to manage than other solutions, cheaper,etc..
Regards
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Samuel G. Cristobal <samuel.guinales@xxxxxxxxx>
OCP10g,11g
Senior Oracle Database System Engineer
FUJITSU
On 24 January 2014 18:46, Michael McMullen <ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> the simplest reason I have for going with ASM is it's now baked into
> everything Oracle does. Docs all kind of assume ASM is being used, oracle
> appliances are using ASM. So I think as a DBA you need to know ASM. You can
> choose not to use it but you should have practical experience.
> It's also kind of an easy intro to Grid if you use it on standalone db's.
> You get familiar with the crsctl commands, has, terminology of Grid etc.
>
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> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:17:43 -0600
> Subject: Re: Why I don't like ASM
> From: justin@xxxxxxx
> To: oracle@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Where I'm at the majority of ASM installs are on RAC. We have some
> stand-alone systems using ASM but that is generally because the customer
> wanted it. Like anything else there are benefits and drawbacks.
>
> The biggest drawback that I can think of is, as you said, added
> complexities and dependencies. Patching, especially, becomes more
> complicated.
>
> From an advantages perspective, I find that using ASM along with
> enterprise hardware can give you added flexibility. For instance, if a
> customer needs to migrate to faster spindles you can present the new LUNs
> to the nodes/server, and then add them to the diskgroup and drop the old
> LUNs seamlessly. I also like that it can all be managed from the Oracle
> tool-set, which means you'll have a generally similar experience across
> platforms. From what I've read there's also less I/O overhead when
> comparing ASM to a filesystem, but I'm sure that's arguable and would
> depend on the file system being used.
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