Hello,
I have a question about using Oracle ASM. If I only have one physical SAN disk (2 disks mirrored) isolated for an Oracle VM is there any point in implementing ASM in the VMs filesystem by creating multiple virtual disks to support ASM if any IO is still really only accessing one physical disk? This is the first time I will have to do an Oracle VM install and I want to make sure the DBAs have the right info for setting up the DB.
I see that it is tip #14 in the Essentiual Deployment tips doc to use Oracle ASM but it doesn't say anything about assumptions...eg: Is there more than one physical disk available? I am thinking the DBA doesn't want to bother with ASM as there is only one physical disk under this VM but we are in a virtual world now and I don't think the same that would be true for a physical server is necessarily the case for a virtual one.
Thanks