Re: Getting the best out of new server hardware: a disk setup for Oracle database

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> Heikki Siltala wrote:

>> Mladen Gogala kirjoitti:
>>> Well, let me re-iterate then: what do you need ASM for?
>>
>> + to get better performance: S.A.M.E should provide better performance 
>> than a failed attempt to distribute IO load evenly over the disks by 
>> manually relocating the datafiles

True and not true. True they all do load balancing in some fashion.

Not true that they can dynamically manage Oracle datafiles in a manner as useful and transparent as ASM.

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