A Automatic Storage Management

This appendix discusses using Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) to provision and manage storage for the Oracle Database datafiles. It includes the following topics:

• What is Automatic Storage Management?

• Overview of Disks, Disk Groups, and Failure Groups

• Installing Automatic Storage Management

• Accessing the Automatic Storage Management Home Page

• Starting Up and Shutting Down the ASM Instance

• Monitoring Disk Group Space Usage

• Creating a Disk Group

• Dropping a Disk Group

• Adding Disks to a Disk Group

• Dropping Disks from a Disk Group

• Backing Up ASM-Managed Files