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Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in Oracle Database Storage Administration?

• New Automatic Storage Management Features for Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1)

1 Introduction to Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

• Overview of Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
• Understanding ASM Concepts
  • About ASM Instances
  • About ASM Disk Groups
  • About Mirroring and Failure Groups
  • About ASM Disks
    • Allocation Units
  • About ASM Files
    • Extents
    • ASM Striping
    • File Templates
• ASM Disk Group Administration
  • About Discovering Disks
  • About Mounting Disk Groups
  • About Adding and Dropping Disks
    • Online Storage Reconfigurations and Dynamic Rebalancing

2 Preparing Storage for ASM

• Preparing Disks for ASM
• ASM and Multipathing
  • Using ASM with Multipathing
• Recommendations for Storage Preparation
• Storage Considerations for Database Administrators

3 Administering ASM Instances

• Configuring Initialization Parameters for an ASM Instance
  • Initialization Parameter Files for an ASM Instance
  • Setting ASM Initialization Parameters
    • Automatic Memory Management for ASM
  • ASM Parameter Setting Recommendations
    • ASM_DISKGROUPS
    • ASM_DISKSTRING
    • ASM_POWER_LIMIT
    • ASM_PREFERRED_READ_FAILURE_GROUPS
    • DB_CACHE_SIZE
    • DIAGNOSTIC_DEST
    • INSTANCE_TYPE
    • LARGE_POOL_SIZE
    • PROCESSES
    • REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE
    • SHARED_POOL_SIZE
  • Setting Database Initialization Parameters for Use with ASM
  • Disk Group Attributes
• Administering ASM Instances
  • Administering ASM Instances with Server Control Utility
  • Starting Up an ASM Instance
    • About Restricted Mode
    • Cluster Synchronization Services Requirements for ASM
  • Shutting Down an ASM Instance
• Using ASM Rolling Upgrades
• Patching ASM Instances
• Authentication for Accessing ASM Instances
  • About the SYSASM Privilege for ASM
  • Accessing an ASM Instance
  • Creating Users with the SYSASM Privilege
  • Operating System Authentication for ASM
  • Password File Authentication for ASM
• Migrating a Database to Use ASM
  • Using Oracle Enterprise Manager to Migrate Databases to ASM
  • Manually Migrating to ASM Using Oracle Recovery Manager
  • Migrating to ASM Best Practices White Papers on Oracle Technology Network (OTN)

4 Administering ASM Disk Groups

• Managing Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Disk Groups
  • Creating Disk Groups
    • Example: Creating a Disk Group
  • Altering Disk Groups
    • Adding Disks to a Disk Group
    • Dropping Disks from Disk Groups
    • Resizing Disks in Disk Groups
    • Undropping Disks in Disk Groups
    • Manually Rebalancing Disk Groups
    • Tuning Rebalance Operations
• ASM Disk Discovery
  • How A Disk is Discovered
  • Disk Discovery Rules
  • Improving Disk Discovery Time
• Managing Capacity in Disk Groups
  • Negative Values of USABLE_FILE_MB
• ASM Disk Group Redundancy
  • ASM Mirroring and Failure Groups
    • ASM Failure Groups
    • How ASM Manages Disk Failures
    • Guidelines for Using Failure Groups
    • Failure Group Frequently Asked Questions
  • ASM Fast Mirror Resync
  • Preferred Read Failure Groups
    • Configuring and Administering Preferred Read Failure Groups
• Performance and Scalability Considerations for Disk Groups
  • Determining the Number of Disk Groups
  • Performance Characteristics When Grouping Disks
  • ASM Storage Limits
• Disk Group Compatibility
  • Overview of Disk Group Compatibility
  • Disk Group Compatibility Attributes
    • COMPATIBLE.ASM
    • COMPATIBLE.RDBMS
  • Setting Disk Group Compatibility
  • Considerations When Setting Disk Group Compatibility
  • Considerations When Setting Disk Group Compatibility in Replicated Environments
• Mounting and Dismounting Disk Groups
  • Example: Dismounting Disk Groups
  • Example: Mounting Disk Groups
  • Mounting Disk Groups Using the FORCE Option
• Checking the Internal Consistency of Disk Group Metadata
• Dropping Disk Groups
• Using Views to Obtain ASM Information

5 Administering ASM Files, Directories, and Templates

• What Types of Files Does ASM Support?
• About ASM Filenames
  • Single File Creation Request
  • Multiple File Creation Request
  • Fully-qualified ASM Filename
  • Numeric ASM Filename
  • Alias ASM Filenames
    • Creating a Tablespace in ASM: Using a Datafile with an Alias Name
  • Alias ASM Filename with Template
  • Incomplete ASM Filename
  • Incomplete ASM Filename with Template
• Creating and Referencing ASM Files in the Database
  • Creating ASM Files Using a Default Disk Group Specification
    • Creating a Datafile Using a Default Disk Group: Example
  • Using ASM Filenames in SQL Statements
    • Using an ASM Filename in a SQL Statement: Example
• Managing Alias Names for ASM Filenames
  • Adding an Alias Name for an ASM Filename
    • Example 1: Adding an Alias Name for an ASM Filename
    • Example 2: Adding an Alias Name for an ASM Filename
  • Renaming an Alias Name for an ASM Filename
    • Example: Renaming an Alias Name for an ASM Filename
  • Dropping an Alias Name for an ASM Filename
    • Example 1: Dropping an Alias Name for an ASM Filename
    • Example 2: Dropping an Alias Name for an ASM Filename
  • Dropping Files and Associated Aliases from a Disk Group
    • Example 1: Dropping Files and Associated Aliases from a Disk Group
    • Example 2: Dropping Files and Associated Aliases from a Disk Group
• Accessing ASM Files with the XML DB Virtual Folder
  • Inside /sys/asm
    • Restrictions
  • Sample FTP Session
• Using DBMS_FILE Transfer Utility for ASM
• Managing Disk Group Directories
  • Creating a New Directory
    • Example 1: Creating a New Directory
    • Example 2: Creating a New Directory
  • Renaming a Directory
    • Example: Renaming a Directory
  • Dropping a Directory
    • Example: Dropping a Directory
• Managing Disk Group Templates
  • Template Attributes
  • Adding Templates to a Disk Group
    • Example 1: Adding a Template to a Disk Group
    • Example 2: Adding a Template to a Disk Group
  • Modifying a Disk Group Template
    • Example: Modifying a Disk Group Template
  • Dropping Templates from a Disk Group
    • Example: Dropping a Template from a Disk Group
  • Creating Tablespaces in ASM: Specifying Redundancy and Striping with Templates
    • Example: Using a User-Defined Template to Specify Redundancy and Striping

6 Administering ASM with Oracle Enterprise Manager

• The Automatic Storage Management Home Page
  • Accessing the ASM Home Page in Single-Instance Oracle Databases
  • Accessing the Automatic Storage Management Home Page in Oracle RAC Databases
• Configuring ASM Initialization Parameters
  • Bringing Disks Online and Offline
• Managing ASM Users
• Managing Disk Groups
  • Creating Disk Groups
  • Adding Disks to Disk Groups
  • Dropping Disks from Disk Groups
  • Dropping Disk Groups
  • Monitoring Disk Group Usage
  • Mounting and Dismounting Disk Groups
  • Administering Advanced Disk Group Properties
    • Configuring Disk Repair Time
• Managing Disk Group Templates
• Monitoring ASM Performance
  • Monitoring General ASM Performance
  • Checking Disk Group Integrity
• Backing Up ASM Files
• Performing Bad Block Recovery
• Migrating to ASM
• ASM: Oracle by Example Series

7 ASM Command-Line Utility—ASMCMD

• About ASMCMD
• About ASM Files, Filenames, Directories, and Aliases
  • System-Generated Filename or Fully Qualified Filename
  • Directory
  • Alias
  • Absolute Path and Relative Path
  • Wildcard Characters
• Running ASMCMD
  • Preparing to Run ASMCMD
  • Running ASMCMD in Interactive Mode
    • Displaying the ASMCMD Version Number
    • Specifying the Type of Connection
    • Including the Current Directory in the ASMCMD Prompt
  • Running ASMCMD in Noninteractive Mode
  • Getting Help
• ASMCMD Command Reference
  • cd Command
  • cp Command
  • du Command
  • exit Command
  • find Command
  • help Command
  • ls Command
  • lsct Command
  • lsdg Command
  • lsdsk Command
  • md_backup Command
  • md_restore Command
  • mkalias Command
  • mkdir Command
  • pwd Command
  • remap Command
  • rm Command
  • rmalias Command

A Deploying ASM Using SQL*Plus

• Creating a Database that Uses ASM
  • Creating a Database that Uses ASM: Example
• Creating Tablespaces in ASM
  • Creating a Tablespace in ASM: Out-of-the-Box Example
• Creating Redo Logs in ASM
  • Adding New Redo Log Files: Example
• Creating Control Files in ASM
  • Creating Control Files in ASM: Example 1
  • Creating Control Files in ASM: Example 2
• Creating Archive Log Files in ASM

Glossary

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