Re: ASM vs VxVM/VxFS

Rodrick Brown wrote:

> Besides the additional costs of using VxVM/VxFS is their any reason to
> go with ASM in a 10g RAC enviornment ?
>
> Can anyone here comment on their experiences with ASM?

Load balancing would be a huge one. Add another disk to a disk group and Oracle will balance the i/o across the additional spindles with nothing more than a mouse-click or two.

Another would be the lower cost in CPU over other volume managers.

A third would be a single consistent methodology across all platforms and operating systems in your data center.

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