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

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:16:46 -0600, JEDIDIAH wrote:

> If you have an interest in treating your databases like
> simple collections of files that you can tar up and drop down
> anywhere in your environment, ASM is probably not for you. Using
> ASM it seems will commit you to using it throughout your
> environment (dev, test, etc).

No, I do not intend to treat my database like a simple collection of files, I intend to treat it like a very complex one. That is precisely why I need so called "plan B". As for taring and dropping anywhere, it is useful from time to time, especially when combined with transportable tablespaces. I must confess to cowardly copying data files using various OS utilities instead of bravely doing export and import with or without a pump. ASM is yavm (yet another volume manager) and, as such, it needs to be compared to other volume managers, like VxVM. So far, I fail to see an advantage of ASM over VxVM.

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