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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: ASM IO distribution on a SAN
I agree. What many people don't realize is that ASM was meant by Oracle
to allow small- and medium-size shops, who didn't want to shell out the
bucks for a storage system like Symmetrix, to realize the benefits of
striping and mirroring. Running ASM on top of RAID gives you stripes on
stripes (or what some people call "plaiding"-ugh).
Having said all that, we run ASM on top of Symmetrix, as it's the standard tier one storage. There are *some* benefits, such as automatic rebalancing, but to my mind it's gilding the lily.
Paul Baumgartel
CREDIT SUISSE
Information Technology
Securities Processing Databases Americas
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New York, NY 10010
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Phone 212.538.1143
paul.baumgartel_at_credit-suisse.com
www.credit-suisse.com
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Michael McMullen
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:45 AM
To: ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: ASM IO distribution on a SAN
Doesn't this all seem like overkill? It doesn't sound like you are getting RAW disks. The san guys would be using some form of raid already wouldn't they? They've packaged up the disks, made luns for you, do you really want another layer on top to troubleshoot? I don't think ASM will increase your performance beyond was a good SAN admin could do for you.
Mike
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