Oracle ASM / ACFS Administration
Duration: 2 Days
Learn Oracle Automatic Storage Management and ASM Clustered File System administration with Oracle Certified Master John Watson.
In this class Oracle Certified Master John Watson will teach you how to install, configure and manage Oracle (ASM) and the Oracle Clustered File System (ACFS). This class is not “death by powerpoint”! This is a fully instructor-led class with demonstrations and hands-on workshops.
ASM / ACFS is much more that a storage platform for Oracle databases: it can also replace third party file servers and clustered file systems, acting as a highly available and fault tolerant storage medium that can be used by any application. Learn why ASM and Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (ACFS) are so important for performance and reliability of Oracle systems and how to exploit their capabilities to the full and why ASM is the best performing storage option available for Oracle Databases.
| This course is designed for 11g and 12c database environments.
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1. RAC and Grid Infrastructure
Architectural summary
Flex clusters
The ASM bootstrap
2. Administering ASM Instances
Administration privileges and the password file
ASM Initialization Parameters
Adjusting ASM Instance Parameters in SPFILEs
Starting and Stopping ASM Instances Using srvctl and other tools
Tuning and monitoring the ASM instance
3. Administering ASM Disks
Disk storage options: LUNs, directly attached storage, network attached storage
Using the ASMLib
Using the udev facility
4. Administering ASM Disk Groups
Creating And Deleting ASM Disk Groups
The importance of the RDBMS, ASM, and ACFS compatibilities
Placing the OCR and voting files on ASM devices
ASM Disk Group Maintenance Tasks
The various levels of redundancy
Templates for striping and mirroring
Hot and cold areas: exploit the geometry of the disks
Fast mirror resynch
choosing an allocation unit size and a sector size
Preferred Read Failure Groups
Metadata backup and restore
Performance And Scalability Considerations For ASM Disk Groups
5. ASM Files, Directories, and Templates
Using Different Client Tools to Access ASM Files
Creating and Managing ASM files, Directories and Aliases
Applying templates to files
File extents, segment extents, and allocation units
Techniques for moving files within, into, and out of ASM
Security and Access Control Lists
6. Administering ASM Cluster File Systems
The ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
The ACFS file system driver
The ACFS bootstrap
Managing ASM Volumes: striping and mirroring
ACFS file system snapshots
ACFS file system replication
ACFS file system encrption
The administration tools: srvctl, asmca, acfsutil, Unix utilities
7. Flex ASM
Conversion from standard ASM to Flex ASM
Conversion from standard cluster to flex cluster
Configuring and using Flex ASM
The ASM network
The ASM listeners
Set the ASM instance cardinality
Relocate ASM instances and clients
The ADVM proxy service for ACFS in a Flex ASM environment
8. ASM, ACFS, and the database
Defining dependencies between a database and diskgroups
Defining dependencies between a database and file systems
Using ACFS for the database Oracle Home
Using ACFS to store database files
9. ASM in a non-clustered environment
The Grid Infrastructure Restart facility
Using ASM with single instance databases
10. Tools for interacting with ASM
sqlplus
asmcmd
dbms_file_transfer
RMAN
FTP and HTTP
Clusterware Utilities: crsctl and srvctl
acfsutil
11. Some of the practical exercises
Install and configure the ASMLib
Set up the udev facility for persistent device naming and access modes
Create ASM devices of various types
Create and managing disk groups
Relocate, and, and remove voting files
Add OCR mirrors
Backup, restore, export, and import the OCR
Simulate and recover from disk failures
Create and use ACFS volumes
Configure ACFS snapshots, replication, and encryption
Convert from standard ASM to 12c Flex ASM
