Re: ASM IO distribution on a SAN

Striping-over-striping kind of defeats the simplicity of ASM environment and completely removes visibility where is what in regard to physical storage layout.

If situation permits, I strongly prefer to expose each pair of RAID-0 mirrored disks as single LUN and organize diskgroups out of those LUNs. This way ASM disk matches directly to a single physical disk (oh well, pair of disks).

On 9/13/07, Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:
> It is unlikely your storage array has the capability to present a multi-TB
> lun, or that from an administrative perspective you would want such a thing.
> ASM would be a fine way to evenly distribute IO across a series of
> reasonably sized LUNs. I think Paul's point was to not count on the
> striping from a performance perspective, simply an administrative ones.

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