Hi Mike,
I saw the article and getting ASMlib to work with PowerPath is the
challenge. The article might claim that they can work togther by setting
ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE="emcpower" but in reality we could'nt get this to
work. I will wait till PowerPath 4.5.
Raj
On 11/8/05, Mike Killough <mwkillough_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Raj,
>
> Metalink Note:309815.1 explains how to setup PowerPath and ASMLib. I
> haven't
> done this myself.
>
> For multipathing, mdadm was forced upon us. We were not able to get that
> to
> work with ASMLib either, so we also mapped the md devices to rawdevices.
>
> We could mark the disk as an ASM disk using oracleasm createdisk, but the
> create diskgroup command would fail with:
>
> ORA-15031: disk specification 'ORCL:DISK3' matches no disks
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> >Nothing is lost using rawdevices. ASMlib probably provides ease of
> >management. You can use either ASMlib or PowerPath and not both.
> > Raj> > Raj
>
>
>
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