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Oracle ASM

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is an Oracle technology that simplifies storage management for Oracle databases. ASM organizes disks into disk groups and handles file creation and redundancy without requiring admin input. It balances I/O load and manages thousands of files automatically through striping and mirroring capabilities. ASM consists of disk groups, files, templates, and disks and provides benefits like easy administration and improved performance.

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Oracle ASM

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is an Oracle technology that simplifies storage management for Oracle databases. ASM organizes disks into disk groups and handles file creation and redundancy without requiring admin input. It balances I/O load and manages thousands of files automatically through striping and mirroring capabilities. ASM consists of disk groups, files, templates, and disks and provides benefits like easy administration and improved performance.

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AUTOMATIC STORAGE

MANAGEMENT
What is ASM?
ASM is a storage management system for Oracle data

ASM is designed to simplify DBA storage tasks

Simply assign disks and walk away – no data layout decisions

Allows Oracle to manage thousands of files automatically

Organizes available disks into disk groups


Work of ASM
ASM extends the power of Oracle Managed Files

Creates and manages files automatically


 Understands different Oracle file types

Offers built-in data mirroring and striping capabilities

Automatically balances I/O load across disk group(s)

Functions like an LVM (Logical Volume Manager)


ASM Components
ASM Disk Groups

ASM Files

ASM Templates

ASM Disks
ASM Disk Groups
A Disk Group consists of multiple disks.

It is the Fundamental object that the ASM manages.

Each Disk Group contains the metadata required for the


management of space in the disk group.
TYPES OF DISK GROUPS
NORMAL redundancy indicates that Oracle will create
a software mirror for each disk

HIGH redundancy indicates that Oracle will create two


mirror disks per data disk

EXTERNAL redundancy indicates that Oracle will not


create any software mirrors. Hardware mirrors (if any)
will be used instead
ASM Files

Files that are stored in ASM Disk Groups are called ASM
files

Files are named with an Oracle-defined format

Oracle databases communicate with ASM in terms of


FILES.
File types in ASM Disk Groups:-

- Control Files
- Datafiles, temporary datafiles, datafile copies
- SPFILEs
- Disaster recovery configurations
- Change tracking bitmaps
- online redo logs, archive logs, and Flashback logs
- RMAN backups
- Data pump dumpsets
ASM Templates
Automatic Storage Management templates are
collections of attributes used to specify file mirroring
and striping attributes during ASM file creation.

A default template exists for each Oracle file type.

Each disk group contains its own definition of


templates.
ASM Disks
ASM disks are storage devices that are provisioned
to ASM Disk Groups.
Examples are:-
- a disk or partiton from a storage array
- an entire disk or the partitions of a disk
- Logical Volumes
- Network attached files (NFS)
ASMCMD
ASMCMD is a command-line utility for viewing
and manipulating files and directories within ASM
disk groups.

Can be used in interactive mode


Commands can be placed in OS scripts

Available with 10g R2


ASMCMD can be used to:

List the contents of disk groups

Perform searches

Create and remove directories and aliases

Display space utilization


Benefits of ASM
ASM provides easy Administration.
ASM improves performance.
For many situations, Automatic Storage Management
provides the functions provided by external volume
managers and file systems.
Automatic Storage Management includes storage
reliability features, such as mirroring. The storage
reliability policy is applied on a file basis, rather than on a
volume basis. Hence, the same disk group can contain a
combination of files protected by mirroring, parity, or not
protected at all.

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