Hi all
We're currently running Oracle 10g on Windows Server 2008 R2 using filesystem storage. We're looking to upgrade to 11g and use ASM disks rather than the filesystem. I am aware that there are plenty of considerations here, but I've been asked specifically about how RAW disks and our antivirus will interact. At the moment, we use System Center Endpoint Protection on the database server, and then we exclude various file types related to Oracle (DBF, CTL etc). This setup satisfies DBAs and infrastructure. Once we start to use ASM though, something will have to change because we won't be able to exclude particular file types.
I'd be interested in any advice / opinions that anyone has around this. Specifically:
1. Is it possible for an ASM disk to be infected with a virus?
2. Is AV software even able to prevent infections on ASM disks? (this possibly isn't relevant depending on the answer to the first question)
3. Are we likely to see performance issues with having AV software running on our database server, given that the current set up described above works fine but will be replaced with ASM disks?
Any help or advice gratefully received
Thanks
Andrew