Setting up an Oracle ASM disks is rather simple, and the procedure can be easily obtained from here, for example. This is nice and pretty, and works well for most environments. EMC PowerPath creates meta devices which utilize the underlying paths, as mod_scsi sees them in Linux, without hiding them (unlike IBM’s RDAC, for example)….
Defining an array of 10x300GB SATA disks, we need to utilize it for our needs. It will be joined in the near future by another such array, but since it will be an additional array and not added disks to this existing array, we need to think onwards, and utilize LVM, so we can "join"…
It’s been a long while since I’ve written. I get to have, once a while, a period of time dedicated for laziness. I’ve had just one of these for the last few weeks, in which I’ve been almost completely idle. Usually, waking up from such idle time is a time dedicated to self studies and…
