[GUSDEV] [Slightly-OT] ASM with Oracle10G

[<ju...@cs...>]

Up to now, we at the Preuss lab have installed and used
GUS under Oracle9i only.  As we are beginning to install
Oracle on a new machine (RHEL ES release 4/Linux 2.6.9-22.ELsmp),
we decided to go with version 10g here.  So far, the only issue
with this installation has been installing the Automatic Storage
System or ASM, a new feature to Oracle10g.

Some questions:

   Is it worth going to ASM instead of just using the 9i
   method of managing tablespaces, what the manual calls the
   "File System" approach?  I suppose I could just
   start with the File System approach and upgrade to ASM
   later.

   ASM Support Library; the manual calls it "optional" yet
   "recommended".  Do people find this worth having?
   As far as I can tell, using the ASMLib means that you cannot
   run SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux).  Is this what
   other people are finding?

   Our Linux box already has RAID disks, therefore the manual
   seems to indicate that the "external redundancy" option for
   ASM is a way to go as opposed to the "normal redundancy"
   or "high redundancy" options.  Do people agree?

   Does anyone have any suggestions for other things to
   watch out for?

Thanks; Josef



Josef Jurek

Daphne Preuss Laboratory
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
The University of Chicago
ju...@cs...

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