Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide (Oracle)

Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide (Oracle)
| 2007-11-05 00:00:00 | | 0 | Oracle

Build and manage a scalable storage infrastructure with Oracle Automatic Storage Management

Streamline data management and provisioning using Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) and the detailed information contained in this exclusive Oracle Press resource. Written by a team of database experts, Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide explains how to build and maintain a dynamic, highly available Oracle database storage environment. Inside, you'll learn how to configure storage for Oracle ASM, build disk groups, use data striping and mirroring, and optimize performance. You'll also learn how to ensure consistency across server and storage platforms, maximize data redundancy, and administer Oracle ASM from the command line.Manage Oracle ASM Instances and configure Oracle RDBMS instances to leverage Oracle ASMDefine, discover, and manage disk storage under Oracle ASM Create external, normal-redundancy, and high-redundancy disk groupsAdd and remove Oracle ASM storage without affecting RDMS instance availabilityLearn how Oracle ASM provides even I/O distribution Work with Oracle ASM directories, files, templates, and aliasesImprove storage performance and integrity using the ASMLIB APISimplify system administration with the Oracle ASM command line interfaceUnderstand key internal Oracle ASM structures and algorithms

User review
Excellent Book
In my opinion this is the best book available in market for ASM. It covers basic of ASM as well as deep troubleshooting. No one can beat Nitin's knowledge, he is an expert when it comes to storage and ASM. You would not be disappointed to have this book.

User review
This is funny . . .
The official documentation is Oracle® Database Storage Administrator's Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1) B31107-05 which is 154 pages. This book is over 300 how is that?

User review
Lots of filler
Lots of filler in this book. For example, chapters showing how hard drives work, complete with half-page illustrations! You could compress this book down to a third of its size. Meanwhile, the harder technical issues, such as sharing ASM diskgroups over multiple servers, are given a single sentence. There is precious little here that isn't available in the (free) manuals on Oracle's web site. Save your money.

User review
Excellent reference book
This is a essential book for beginners and advanced users. DBAs can have good references to implement ASM without problems. There are many information not found in conventional forums.

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ASM Book review by Oracle press
Other than Oracle documentation, this is the only ASM source of information that I know of. This book is a relatively fast read and comes in at under 300 pages.


The first chapter is very helpful and I learned some information about disk storage that I did not know. I am more comfortable talking with SAN and system administrators now. They also get the feel that I know what I am talking about. After the first chapter, the book dives right into ASM architecture and management. Each chapter is well written and easy to understand. This book also covers the new features in Oracle 11 and you can see that Oracle is dedicated to maturing ASM. ASM is here to stay and it will gain in popularity.


One of the areas that I thought could have been better is the discussion and explanation of RAC, ASM and how the cluster registry is affected. It would have been nice to have a chapter on OCFS just as a supplement. Some shops will utilize both OCFS and ASM. OCFS will host the OCR and voting file as ASM can not be used.


If you are new to ASM or you are an expert, this book is a good read. If you are new to ASM will get more out of it (obviously) since it covers everything you need to know to install and maintain ASM. Fortunately since this is the only ASM book (as of today) and it is great source of information you will not be wasting your time. This book comes highly recommended.


George Loewenthal

Denver, Colorado