Preface

The Oracle Database Storage Administrator's Guide describes how to administer storage for Oracle databases. This Preface contains the following topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

The audience for this book includes system administrators, database administrators, and storage administrators. The Oracle Database Storage Administrator's Guide is intended for database and storage administrators who perform the following tasks:

• Administer and manage storage

• Configure and administer ASM

To use this document, you should be familiar with basic Oracle Database concepts and administrative procedures. Also, you might want to review the documentation for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). See "Related Documents".

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documents

For more information, refer to the following Oracle resources:

• Oracle Database 2 Day DBA

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide

• Platform-specific Oracle Database, Oracle Clusterware, and Oracle RAC installation guides

To download release notes, installation documentation, white papers, or other collateral, refer to the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). You must register online before using OTN; registration is free and can be done at

http://www.oracle.com/technology/membership/

If you already have a username and password for OTN, then you can go directly to the documentation section of the OTN Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: