A Administering Automatic Storage Management

This appendix discusses using Automatic Storage Management (ASM) to provision and manage storage for the Oracle Database datafiles. It includes the following topics:

• About Automatic Storage Management

• Overview of Disks, Disk Groups, and Failure Groups

• Installing Automatic Storage Management

• Accessing the Automatic Storage Management Home Page

• Monitoring Disk Group Space Usage

• Creating a Disk Group

• Dropping a Disk Group

• Adding Disks to a Disk Group

• Dropping Disks from a Disk Group

• Backing Up ASM-Managed Files

• Automatic Storage Management: Oracle By Example Series