Administration of Oracle ASM Instances

Oracle ASM is typically installed in an Oracle Grid Infrastructure home separate from the Oracle Database home. Only one Oracle ASM instance is supported on a server in a standard configuration; however, Oracle Flex ASM provides additional configuration options.

When managing an Oracle ASM instance, the administration activity should be performed in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home.

This section describes how to administer Oracle ASM instances under the following topics:

• Managing Oracle Flex ASM

• Using Oracle Restart

• About Starting Up an Oracle ASM Instance

• About Shutting Down an Oracle ASM Instance

• About Administering Oracle ASM Instances with Server Control Utility

• About Out of Place Upgrades

• About Configuring Oracle Grid Infrastructure with the Configuration Wizard

• About Active Session History Sampling for Oracle ASM

• About Oracle Home User on Windows