May 17th, 2006
Inderpal S. Johal
Principal Consultant
Agenda
What is ASM
Benefits of ASM
ASM Architecture
ASM Components
DB Instance parameters to support ASM
ASM Instance Monitoring using EM
ASM Views
Migrating from File system to ASM
Miscellaneous Tips
Q&A
Data Softech Inc.
Oracle 10g ASM
2
What is ASM
ASM stands for Automatic Storage Management
It is Oracle Cluster File System and Volume Manager
Designed for Oracle Database Related Files
Provide Storage management capabilities like striping as well as mirroring
Data files
Log files
Archived files
Control Files
Not Certified for
Trace Files
ORACLE_HOME
Voting Disk
OCR Files
Alert Log
Password File
Binary File (BFILE)
Temp File
SPfile
DG file
Flashback Logs
Datapump File
DataGuard
Change Tracking File
Data Softech Inc.
Oracle 10g ASM
3
Benefits of Automatic Storage Management
Provide efficient management of storage
No need for buggy OCFS or expensive 3rd party CFS
Provide integrated Cluster File system and Volume management capabilities
Traditional Volume Mgmt.
ASM
Tables
Tables
Tablespaces
Tablespaces
Files
File systems
Automatic
Storage
Management
Disk Groups
Logical
Volumes
Physical
Volumes
Physical
Volumes
Data Softech Inc.
Oracle 10g ASM
4
Benefits of Automatic Storage Management
Provide efficient management of storage
Provide integrated Cluster File system and Volume management capabilities
No need for buggy OCFS or expensive 3rd Party CFS
Provide Software Mirroring on top of vendor supplied SAN
[2 or 3 Mirrors]
Triple Mirroring
Data Softech Inc.
Double Mirroring
Oracle 10g ASM
No Mirroring
5
Benefits of Automatic Storage Management
Provide efficient management of storage
Provide integrated Cluster File system and Volume management capabilities
No need for buggy OCFS or expensive 3rd Party CFS
Provide Software Mirroring on top of