Re: ASM IO distribution on a SAN

I have quite a lot of sympathy with this - and certainly think SAN disk should be external redundant groups. SAN however is usually an expensive corporate strategy and so most dba groups should probably embrace and extend - at least until the second SAN is bought establishing the buy storage per application principle (again)

On 13/09/2007, Baumgartel, Paul <paul.baumgartel_at_credit-suisse.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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> 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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