Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide (Oracle Press) [Paperback]

Nitin Vengurlekar (Author), Murali Vallath (Author), Rich Long (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 5, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0071496076 | ISBN-13: 978-0071496070 | Edition: 1

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 ASM
• Define, discover, and manage disk storage under Oracle ASM
• Create external, normal-redundancy, and high-redundancy disk groups
• Add and remove Oracle ASM storage without affecting RDMS instance availability
• Learn how Oracle ASM provides even I/O distribution
• Work with Oracle ASM directories, files, templates, and aliases
• Improve storage performance and integrity using the ASMLIB API
• Simplify system administration with the Oracle ASM command line interface
• Understand key internal Oracle ASM structures and algorithms

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Nitin Vengurlekar works at Oracle in the Real Application Cluster (RAC) engineering group, with specific emphasis on ASM. Nitin is a popular conference presenter on this topic.

Murali Vallath is an Oracle Certified Database Administrator and is president of the Oracle RAC Special Interest Group.

Rich Long is Director of Development for Automatic Storage Management at Oracle and has managed ASM development since the project’s inception.

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071496076
• ISBN-13: 978-0071496070
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book will make you an expert on ASM., December 20, 2007

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T. Roach - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide (Oracle Press) (Paperback)

One of the authors of this book is the director of development for ASM. Who would know more about it than the developers? The other 2 implement it in many different environments. Lastly, the technical reviewer Charles Kim wrote the 11g new features book for Apress. There could not be a better group of people to write a book about ASM and review it than these individuals.

I would highly recommend this book for any DBA that will be working with ASM and / or RAC. The high performance, ease of use, and low cost make it a very attractive solution. This book will teach you everything you need to know about ASM (that's why it's called an "Under-the-Hood" guide). It also makes an excellent reference.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just in Time..., December 8, 2007

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K. Gopalakrishnan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide (Oracle Press) (Paperback)

Someone recenlty mentioned that Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is probably the best thing ever happened to Oracle next to SQL*Plus. I would second that. However there was no definitive text available in the market and Nitin & co perfectly filled the gap with this classic one.

This book starts with the basics of the storage technology and moves towards the center of the ASM with deep discussions on ASM data structures, ASM in operation and ASM troubleshooting. Nitin probably probably knows more about ASM than anyone I know and excels in explaining the complex technologies in easy to understand manner. You will immensely benefit from his wisdom and real life experience.

A must read for Oracle Storage Administrators and DBAs working with RAC/ASM.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a good Oracle ASM read, May 6, 2010

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Euegene Roytman (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide (Oracle Press) (Paperback)

This is a definitely a good book. Contains plenty of useful info. However don't be misguided by "covers oracle 10g and 11g". As of 11.2 a lot of things have changed like introduction of Grid Infrastructure, etc that makes installation and management a bit different, but I believe the concepts will stay the same. An updated online chapter on new 11.2 features would be nice, but for lack of anything else I would give my both thumbs up for this book, especially if you deal with 10.2-11.1 versions.