Deploying Oracle ASM With Oracle 10g RAC on AIX With IBM System Storage DS8000 and DS6000 Advanced Features

The IBM System Storage DS8000 and DS6000 Disk Storage systems are both high performance storage systems that offer expandable data open storage and data protective systems to correspond with specific business requirements. Advanced Copy Services features available on the DS8000 include FlashCopy, Remote Mirror and Copy, Metro Mirror, Global Copy, and Global Mirror. A Subsystem Device Drive Path Control Module (SDDPCM) is available for IBM Storage DS8000 and DS6000 in Multipath IO (MPIO) environments running on an IBM System p server. Oracle 10g R2/Clusterware technology offers several features that work with both single database and RAC environments. Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) technology is a feature that is designed to distribute information uniformly across all storage disk groups and has unique mirroring capabilities.