Chapter 1. Using Oracle ASM

ORACLE DATABASE 11g: ADMINISTRATION II EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

Database Architecture and ASM

  • Describe Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

  • Set up initialization parameter files for ASM and database instances

  • Start up and shut down ASM instances

  • Administer ASM diskgroups

Using Oracle ASM

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) provides a centralized way to manage Oracle Database disk storage. The Oracle Database 11g OCP exam will test your knowledge of ASM, and thus ASM is the first topic we will tackle in this book.

In this chapter, we will discuss what ASM is, how to configure an ASM instance, how to manage an ASM instance, and finally, ...

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