oracle ASM and SRDF/Recoverpoint

[Sheehan, Jeremy]

Hello Gurus,

I’m looking into ASM as a new standard for my company. Right now we’re just using standard datafiles on a filesystem. We’re heavy users of EMC technologies like SRDF and Recoverpoint for DR replication. All the material I’ve read shows that ASM and SRDF/Recoverpoint work together pretty well, but those are white-papers where everything is typically all peaches and cream.

Any real-world experience out there? Does anyone have any issues using these technologies together? Do you find that they work together just fine?

AIX 6.7 – 7.2
Oracle 10g – 12c

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Jeremy

[Andrew Kerber]

We have had very good experience with that combination. My company, House
of Brick Technologies, has done quite a bit with that and had very good
experiences. That being said, there are some caveats. You absolutely must
have a competent network and storage team that understands what is going
on, and can identify immediately where there are failures. If you are not
100% confident, you will want to use something like data guard for your
oracle databases, so that you have the ability to check the status and open
it read only yourself. I did once see a situation where the network,
security, and storage teams were not communicating properly, and the
security team kept on blocking the required ports on the DR site, and the
network and storage teams did not notice. That was kind of a disaster.
But I do emphasize, when the network and storage teams are competent, srdf
is just fine.

Post by Sheehan, Jeremy
Hello Gurus,
I’m looking into ASM as a new standard for my company. Right now we’re
just using standard datafiles on a filesystem. We’re heavy users of EMC
technologies like SRDF and Recoverpoint for DR replication. All the
material I’ve read shows that ASM and SRDF/Recoverpoint work together
pretty well, but those are white-papers where everything is typically all
peaches and cream.
Any real-world experience out there? Does anyone have any issues using
these technologies together? Do you find that they work together just fine?
AIX 6.7 – 7.2
Oracle 10g – 12c
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jeremy

[Sheehan, Jeremy]

Andrew,

Thanks for the feedback! I’m very confident in our network/storage teams. Again, we’re heavy users of SRDF/Recoverpoint already (we use it over Data Guard) and our storage team is great with supporting us on this.

Thanks!

Jeremy

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We have had very good experience with that combination. My company, House of Brick Technologies, has done quite a bit with that and had very good experiences. That being said, there are some caveats. You absolutely must have a competent network and storage team that understands what is going on, and can identify immediately where there are failures. If you are not 100% confident, you will want to use something like data guard for your oracle databases, so that you have the ability to check the status and open it read only yourself. I did once see a situation where the network, security, and storage teams were not communicating properly, and the security team kept on blocking the required ports on the DR site, and the network and storage teams did not notice. That was kind of a disaster. But I do emphasize, when the network and storage teams are competent, srdf is just fine.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Sheehan, Jeremy <***@fpl.com<mailto:***@fpl.com>> wrote:
Hello Gurus,

I’m looking into ASM as a new standard for my company. Right now we’re just using standard datafiles on a filesystem. We’re heavy users of EMC technologies like SRDF and Recoverpoint for DR replication. All the material I’ve read shows that ASM and SRDF/Recoverpoint work together pretty well, but those are white-papers where everything is typically all peaches and cream.

Any real-world experience out there? Does anyone have any issues using these technologies together? Do you find that they work together just fine?

AIX 6.7 – 7.2
Oracle 10g – 12c

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Jeremy