I'm running solaris, with solstice disksuite.
With other systems, i run veritas volume manager.
My dba want to implement ASM with oracle 10g.
Is it possible to create volumes with disksuite for ASM.
Oracle want a volume name ex: vol1
My question is, what is the best STANDARD solution.
Thanks you
ASM uses raw partitions that do not get mounted by the OS, so you cannot use disksuite.
i don't know that ASM software, but you also can use raw devices with disksuite (/dev/md/rdsk/<-->) ....
I've already installed several SunClusters running Oracle RAC, and there you have to use raw-devices with disksuite in metasets for multi-owner devices with Oracle UDLM....
but anyhow, like i said, i don't know ASM......
regards pressy
Nice, that's something I had never considered, I'm going to try that 
Although we've been using VxVM on SunClusters, so for us at least, we'll be benchmarking VxFS vs. ASM too as performance is a concern.
I am going to guess veritas since i am such a fan of their stuff. let us know how it performed.
-S
I'm working with veritas fundation suite ha for oracle.
He have a new product, veritas fundation for RAC (real application cluster oracle) Its very interresting because RAC is a real HA database product but i trust more the veritas file system than ASM. I dont want the DBA have access to disk. With ASM, you need to make oracle:dba owner of the disk devices.
The DBA have access to disk via SQL. 