Course Overview
In this class students will learn how to install, configure, and manage Oracle (ASM) and the Oracle Clustered File System (ACFS). This is a fully instructor-led class with demonstrations and hands-on workshops.
ASM / ACFS is much more than 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 the 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.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 11 Lessons
- 2 Days
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- Topics11
- 1.1RAC and Grid Infrastructure Architectural summary Flex clusters The ASM bootstrap
- 1.2Administering 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
- 1.3Administering ASM Disks Disk storage options: LUNs, directly attached storage, network attached storage Using the ASMLib Using the udev facility
- 1.4Administering 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
- 1.5ASM 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
- 1.6Administering 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 encryption The administration tools: srvctl, asmca, acfsutil, Unix utilities
- 1.7Flex 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
- 1.8ASM, 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
- 1.9ASM in a non-clustered environment The Grid Infrastructure Restart facility Using ASM with single instance databases
- 1.10Tools for interacting with ASM sqlplus asmcmd dbms_file_transfer RMAN FTP and HTTP Other Clusterware utilities
- 1.11Some of the practical exercises Install and configure the ASM Filter Driver 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
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