Re: ASM on LUNs Vs pNFS

Bill,

It looks like pNFS is supported only in 12.2. Were you planning on running this in 12.1?

http://docs.oracle.com/database/122/NEWFT/GUID-F24640D6-5151-4D00-9B21-1365D04D5499.htm#NEWFT-GUID-E0EE3BB8-2129-4B1C-9EAA-357BF32D11BC

Seth Miller

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:04 PM, William Ndolo Intertek < william.ndolo_at_intertek.com> wrote:

> I will try to be specific here.
>
> Looks like there was a discussion around this topic in February 2016.
>
> Chris Ruel, kyle Hailey, Amir Hameed, any suggestions?
>
> Again, we are considering moving to pNFS.
>
> We just want to know pros and cons.
>
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> Thanks and best regards,
>
>
>
> *William Ndolo*
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> *Subject:* ASM on LUNs Vs pNFS
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>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anybody have an insight to share on moving from traditional LUNs to
> pNFS and still being able to use ASM on a 12c environment?
>
> Any documentations on the benefits of moving away from LUNs to pNFS would
> be highly appreciated.
>
> I have done some research and it is clear that pNFS comes with enhanced
> security, enhanced efficiency, enhanced resource management and enhanced
> performance optimization per IBM.
>
> Application servers , or clients, can gain simultaneous access in parallel
> over multiple data
> <http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/definition/data> paths to
> storage servers or nodes
> <http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/node>.
>
> Anybody using pNFS in their environment?
>
> Compared to LUN’s, can we categorically say that pNFS has superior
> performance?
>
> Note below one of the selling points:
>
> *The pNFS architecture also eliminates many of the scalability
> <http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/definition/scalability> and
> performance
> <http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/definition/performance-testing>
> issues associated with NFS servers
> <http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/server> because file
> <http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/file-system> metadata
> <http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/metadata> and protocol data are
> transmitted over the Internet Protocol (IP
> <http://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/definition/Internet-Protocol>)
> network <http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/network>, while
> file data travels over the storage architecture as files, blocks
> <http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/definition/block> or objects
> <http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/object>.*
>
>
>
> How does the above statement compare with traditional LUNs?
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
>
>
> *Bill Ndolo*
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