Oracle Automatic Storage Management

BANGALORE, INDIA: Intended for technical managers, DBAs, system admins, and storage architects, this book provides the essentials of ASM (Automatic Storage Management) and the best practices for implementation.

Starting with the basics of storage technology, the book hovers around detail discussions on ASM data structures, ASM in operation, and ASM troubleshooting. Learn how to configure storage for Oracle ASM, build disk groups, use data striping and mirroring, optimize performance, and ensure consistency across server and storage platforms.

Chapters give a process flow guide for enabling, configuring, and managing ASM in any environment, as well as ensuring that the databases are configured correctly to leverage ASM. Also, have an insight into critical ASM internal operations and structures. The last chapter covers a very important aspect of getting ASM into the user infrastructure. A book worth for those planning to implement ASM or are working on ASM.

Book reviewed by: Jayanta Ghosh

Book Details:

Authors: Nitin Vengurlekar, Murali Vallath, Rich Long

Price: Rs 425/-

Pages :  340

Distributor:  Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing

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Email: priyanka_virani@mcgraw-hill.com