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RAC with ASM or GPFS on IBM AIX machine ? [message #463798] Sat, 03 July 2010 14:47 Go to next message
dba4bank
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Hi There!
We are planning to install 11GR2 RAC with two nodes Cluster on AIX 6.1 in Our Environment.
Also we will run two and more instance on the RAC environment. They will be 10 G and 11 G databases.
My question:
Which is the best solution ? RAC with ASM or RAC with GPFS ?Could you please share your experience with this issue. Expacially i need to know compare both configuration and i need to know what is advantages and disadvantages.

Thanks for your Assintance.



Re: RAC with ASM or GPFS on IBM AIX machine ? [message #463825 is a reply to message #463798] Sun, 04 July 2010 09:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
mkounalis
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There really is no advantage I have seen using GPFS over ASM. Save your licensing dollars - and also simplify your support of the stack by going with a full oracle solution. ASM will do everything you need for what you are planning.
Re: RAC with ASM or GPFS on IBM AIX machine ? [message #463877 is a reply to message #463798] Mon, 05 July 2010 01:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
dba4bank
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Thanks for your response.
But I have some concern. Because I couldnt find any reference with OLTP system on ASM from oracle site. All document that i reached from oracle reference site related with DSS environment. Actuall we have used RAC with ASM on the test environment and couldnt facing any problem with ASM.
Is there any reference OLTP system with working on the ASM ?

Regards.
Gokhan Dedeler
Re: RAC with ASM or GPFS on IBM AIX machine ? [message #463950 is a reply to message #463877] Mon, 05 July 2010 06:55 Go to previous message
mkounalis
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Where is your concern coming from? ASM doesn't change the performance characteristics of the database - ASM is the storage manager - database I/O doesn't go through ASM to get to the disks. Most of the world record tpc benchmarks that oracle holds were done using ASM. Also, the latest version of the Oracle Database machine which touts OLTP uses ASM. Which site are you going to that is omitting this information? You probably need to go to docs.oracle.com and grab the concepts book and read up on what ASM is.

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