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    ASM and ORACLE-MANAGED FILES

    Hi Friends,

    Im migrating our database from 8i to 10g. While doing the intallation of 10g
    I met these options to use ASM and ORACLE-MANAGED files. Would you
    recommend to me to use these features? are they cool or a pain
    in the neck to troubleshoot.

    Thanks a lot

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    ASM is the future. Actually, street talk says Oracle is building a whole new O/S around ASM.

    ASM provides "near" raw device performance and easy administration thru OEM

    We have implemented ASM and we are very happy with it.

    You can check Note:312731.1, which is an Oracle white paper that puts togheter 10g, RAC and ASM.
    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.

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    Oracle managed files won't change your environment very much, it'll just have Oracle do the file creation / naming / deletion. ASM changes more things, so you might not want to go to it yet if you aren't familiar with it.

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    Right, getting familiar one feature at a time would be a good idea. Both of these features are here to stay.
    -- Dilip

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    Thanks hunnies so u mean to say it is still ok if I use the old fashion way.
    I just thot i gain better performance when I used ASM.

    Quote Originally Posted by PAVB
    We have implemented ASM and we are very happy with it.
    What happiness did it bring u dear?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jennifer2007
    What happiness did it bring u dear?
    Lolz. Only you can ask this question.
    -- Dilip

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    I mean if he is happy with the ease in ASM management or if it made
    his database run fast

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    He is happy in general. That's the future and how do you live without it until now :-)
    About the ASM, yes, the performance shoudl be better it stipes the IO.
    About the management .. there is still what to be expected, but no serious problems. Generally, if you use RAC or you do not have hardware storage array, then definitely go for it , the benefit will be great
    If running single instance with storage array, then the improvement will not be so significant

    Cheers
    Boris

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    Jen -- ASM gives us near-raw device performance -which makes us happy in a very easy to manage environment -which makes us even "happier" :-)))
    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

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    Quote Originally Posted by jennifer2007
    Thanks hunnies so u mean to say it is still ok if I use the old fashion way.
    I just thot i gain better performance when I used ASM.



    What happiness did it bring u dear?
    Kris123? yxez?
    Assistance is Futile...

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