Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management)

Module 1: Introduction to Oracle ASM

• Overview of Automatic Storage Management
• ASM vs. traditional file system storage
• ASM architecture: Instance, disk groups, files
• ASM use cases in enterprise environments
• ASM in Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Module 2: ASM Installation and Configuration

• Grid Infrastructure installation for standalone
• ASM instance creation with DBCA
• ASM parameter file (SPFILE) setup
• CSS (Cluster Synchronization Services)
• Post-installation ASM verification

Module 3: ASM Disk Groups

• Disk group creation and management
• Redundancy levels: External, normal, high
• Failure groups in ASM
• Adding and dropping disks
• Disk group attributes configuration

Module 4: ASM Files and Directories

• ASM file types and naming
• ASM directory structure
• Alias creation in ASM
• Oracle Managed Files (OMF) with ASM
• Accessing ASM files with ASMCMD

Module 5: ASMCMD Utility

• ASMCMD commands for file management
• Navigating ASM directory structure
• Copying and moving ASM files
• ASMCMD for disk group management
• Scripting with ASMCMD

Module 6: ASM Performance

• Rebalancing disk groups
• Rebalance power setting
• I/O calibration for ASM disks
• Monitoring ASM I/O performance
• ASM preferred read failure groups

Module 7: ASM Flex and Extended Disk Groups

• ASM Flex disk group (12.2+)
• Quota groups in ASM Flex
• File groups in ASM Flex
• Extended disk group for stretch clusters
• ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD)

Module 8: ASM and Oracle RAC

• Shared disk configuration for RAC
• Cluster-wide ASM disk group management
• ASM in Oracle RAC One Node
• Disk group compatibility in RAC
• Voting disks and OCR on ASM

Module 9: ASM Backup and Recovery

• RMAN backup with ASM
• Backing up disk group metadata
• MD_BACKUP and MD_RESTORE
• ASM disk group recovery scenarios
• Mirroring and fast mirror resync

Module 10: ASM Monitoring and Administration

• V$ASM views for monitoring
• Oracle Enterprise Manager for ASM
• Alert log for ASM instance
• Disk group health monitoring
• Proactive ASM maintenance

Module 11: ASM on Oracle Cloud (OCI)

• ASM in Oracle Cloud VM DB systems
• ASM with Exadata Cloud Service
• ASM disk group management on OCI
• Block volume as ASM disk on OCI
• ASM best practices for cloud

Module 12: Real-Time Projects and Case Studies

• ASM setup for a RAC database
• Disk group expansion and rebalance
• End-to-end ASM administration project
• Certification and interview preparation

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