Re: Oralce 10g2/RAC on AIX. ASM or GPFS?

Karma wrote:
> My workplace is having a debate on what to use for a file system/disk
> management perspective for RAC. I would like to know what others have
> built their RAC clusters on, are more people using ASM or GPFS. I'm
> not a DBA, but do support Unix and lean towards using ASM. I've read
> several white papers and documents on the whole subject and ASM just
> seems to have many benefits to the DBA. I really would like to get
> other's opinions. GPFS is not really needed, but was suggested. This
> cluster would be running on AIX 5.3/Oracle 10g2/Rac on EMC SAN. We
> would start with 2 data base instances and then grow to maybe 10.

Given that you already have an EMC my recommendation would be to create one or more LUNs with block devices (raw) and use ASM to manage it.

Oracle may not continue to support OCFS and going that direction involves risks not worth taking.

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