Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g: Administer ASM

In this seminar, students will learn about Oracle Automatic Storage Manager (ASM). Students will understand how to perform an installation of the product and configuring it for utilization using best practices. Students will also understand the architecture of ASM and its role within the enterprise environment.

Students will learn the topics through lecture, demonstrations and discussions.

Learn To:

• Understand the ASM architectures
• Install and configure ASM
• Manage ASM with different utilities such as SQL*Plus, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and ASMCMD

This course is based on Oracle Database 11g Release 1.

A Live Virtual Class (LVC) is exclusively for registered students; unregistered individuals may not view an LVC at any time. Registered students must view the class from the country listed in the registration form. Unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of LVC content may not be made.

Audience

• Sales Consultants
• Support Engineer
• System Administrator
• Technical Administrator
• Technical Consultant
• Database Administrators

Course Topics Introduction to Storage in Oracle Environments

• Overview of Disk Management
• Overview of OCFS2
• Overview of Direct NFS
• Overview of Exadata Server
• Overview of ASM

Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) Architecture

• ASM for Single Instance
• ASM Cluster Configuration for Oracle RAC
• ASM Components
• Utilities for Working with ASM

Installing and Configuring ASM

• Install ASM with Oracle Universal Installer
• Install 11.1.0.7.0 Patchset to ASM binaries
• Installing and Configuring ASMLib
• Configuring ASM with dbca

Administering ASM Instances

• ASM Initialization Parameters
• Connecting to and Authenticating to ASM Instances
• Starting/Stopping ASM Instances
• Querying Dynamic Performance Views

Administering ASM Disk Groups

• Disk group attributes
• Creating a new disk group
• Disk aliases
• Extending an existing disk group
• Dropping disk from an existing disk group
• Dropping a complete Disk Group
• Mounting and Dismounting Disk groups
• ASM Fast Mirror Resync

Administering ASM Files, Directories, and Templates

• Accessing ASM files
• ASM file names
• Create ASM files
• Managing ASM Directories
• Managing Filename aliases
• Managing Disk Group Templates

ASM Command-Line utility

• Prerequisites to running ASMCMD
• Modes of ASMCMD
• ASMCMD command overview

Administering ASM with Oracle Enterprise Manager

• ASM Homepage
• Configuring ASM initialization parameters
• Managing ASM users
• Managing ASM disk groups
• Monitoring ASM Performance
• Migrating to ASM

Course Objectives

• Utilize the ASM command line environment
• Manage ASM with Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Install ASMLIB on the Linux Platform
• Install the Oracle Automatics Storage Manager software
• Configure the Oracle Automatic Storage Manager software
• Manage ASM instances, disk groups, disk, and files
• Understand the Oracle storage products