Re: [suse-oracle] Oracle ASM driver for SLES 11

Then I'm all with you - I just misread your original reply.

Best regards

Martin Berg

> No, ASMlib only. ASM is a great thing, esp with the new 11.2 GRID.
>
> But ASMlib is a little strange thing. <aybe it helps somehow. But
> everything
> works pretty good withot it.
>
> What we did:
> - use multipath and assign aliases to teh disks.
> - so we always have
>  /dev/mapper/OCRDisk, /dev/mapper/CSSDisk, /dev/mapper/DB01 etc disk names
> (no matter what is behind)
> - if using raw, I run my own script to make raw disks symlinked as
> /dev/rawnames/OCRDisk, etc etc, but new Oracle allows to run
> ASM on the normal disks.
>
> After it (with new oracle which don't need raw) I do not understand why
> someone wants one more layer between the disks and oracle... Interesting
> thing is that
> oif disk is formatted vya ASMLib it wil not work via raw (or normal)
> access,
> and vise versa.
>
> PS> There is a speculation that ASMLib was created to allow clustered
> volume
> manager for ASM, which never materialized.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Berg" <[email protected]>
> To: "Alexei_Roudnev" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] Oracle ASM driver for SLES 11
>
>
>> Are you advising against just ASMlib - or ASM as a whole ?
>>
>> Martin Berg
>>
>> Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
>>> I really advise AGAINST ASMLib. IT is the piece of junk, technically
>>> speaking, and Oracle works well on raw disks (10.2) or just normal
>>> disks
>>> (11.1 and 11.2).
>>> But if someone prefer ASMLib it should be here in SLES11.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Arun Singh" <[email protected]>
>>> To: "Arturo Gutierrez" <[email protected]>;
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 10:37 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] Oracle ASM driver for SLES 11
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>> On 3/6/2010 at 10:11 AM, Arturo Gutierrez
>>>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> I'm planning  a RAC instalation using Oracle RAC 11g R2 on SLE11
>>>>> servers.
>>>>> I'like install ASMLIB to manage disks. However I read from Oracle web
>>>>> that the driver for SLES11 is built and distributed by Novell.
>>>>> Do you from where source can I download this driver?
>>>>>
>>>> ASMLib driver is part of SLES11 distro i.e. no need to download, just
>>>> put
>>>> SLES11 DVD & select asmlib driver in YaST
>>>>
>>>> For supporting libs & tools are available at:
>>>> http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/linux/asmlib/sles11.html
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Arun
>>>>
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