Re: ASM of any significant value when switching to Direct NFS / NetApp / non-RAC?

From: Kevin Closson <ora_kclosson_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:37:51 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1345664271.32386.YahooMailNeo_at_web161705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

There is non-Oracle content in modern IT shops? Noons, come on.

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 From: Nuno Souto <dbvision_at_iinet.net.au> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 3:24 AM
Subject: Re: ASM of any significant value when switching to Direct NFS / NetApp / non-RAC?  

Connor McDonald wrote,on my timestamp of 9/08/2012 5:49 PM:
> For what its worth, we're a NetApp shop on DNFS, and have never had any
> justification to use ASM...
> Unless there are political games between storage and database admins, why
> bother ?

Aye, too true.  EMC Symmetrix/SRDF here, never felt the need for ASM. Besides: I doubt ASM can handle DB2/MSSQL/Outlook/Wintel/VMware environments as well. EMC can. In the same SAN.
Did that last simple fact stop Oracle sales/"experts" from spending the last 5 years telling my management I'm a "bad dba" because I don't need to use ASM? Nope...

> DNFS gives great performance, file management becomes a doddle (adding
> nodes is pretty much plug-any-play), and there's myriad of NetApp goodies
> should wish to take advantage of them...

It also likely supports a little more than just Oracle databases?

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Nuno Souto
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dbvision_at_iinet.net.au
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