Monday 8 July 2013

Lesson 54 : What is Oracle ASM ?

What is Oracle ASM

Oracle ASM(Automatic Storage Management) 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. ASM is storage management solution that provides an alternative to conventional volume managers, file systems, and raw devices. Disksare directly provided to ASM. ASM then automatically manages the storage inside the disk without much manual intervention.

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