1. Introduction to Automatic Storage Management:

October 2011
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
« Sep
	1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31

Posted by Narashim Reddy .R on October 28, 2011

Why ASM?

What is ASM?

Comparison with other LVMs

Why ASM?

1. Databases are rapidly going in size i.e. dba need to manage thousand of datafiles. In order to decrease the complicity

2. To Decrease the downtime.

3. Managing the database storage is becoming difficult.

What is ASM?

ASM is the storage management solution recommended by oracle in alternative to conventional volume managers, file systems, and raw devices. ASM is a volume manager and a file system for Oracle database files that supports single-instance Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) configurations. Provide Storage management capabilities like striping as well as mirroring.

Comparison with other LVMs

Other LVM ASM

Volume Group Disk Group

Volume ASM File

Like this:

Be the first to like this post.

This entry was posted on October 28, 2011 at 2:45 am and is filed under Oracle RAC. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.