Quote Originally Posted by matthew00
well, so why Oracle had ASM then? To me, that's adding another vulnerable piece of software into your env. Is there any way to protect (no fault tolerance) if the company used ASM for High Availability.

thanks
well it does the manual balancing of i/o for you across devices - if you want that it might be useful. if you dont - then dont use it.

If you ave a high availability requirement then you are presumably using RAC and you would have an ASM instance on each node