Re: ASM Risk / Rewards

Oracle on Windows... well this is more of a religious topic and I'm a bit religious here even though I happen to administer few Windows environments. :-)

I don't have any experience with ASM on Windows (I wouldn't even think that it works but apparently it supposed to). I also don't know anyone using ASM on Windows from which I can conclude that relying on storage stack that very few Oracle customers use is a recipe for disaster.

Now if I add RAC there... Hm.. some people travel god knows where to find some exotic adventures but here is an excellent opportunity! ;-)

Windows + Oracle + RAC + ASM = WORA (what a fun project) %)

PS: Sorry for being a little sarcastic but I couldn't resist!

> From: steve montgomerie [mailto:stmontgo_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 11:00 PM
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: ASM Risk / Rewards
>
>
> Good day,
> We're doing the PeopleSoft upgrade thing which includes an upgrade from
> Oracle 9i to 10G Rel2.
>
> Our environment will be Windows 2003 with RAC 10G.
>
> As part of the upgrade I see from the Oracle Docs that Oracle recommends
> using ASM. I've been reading researching and testing
> on a smaller machine getting read for the new hardware.

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