Thinking Out of the Box Re-defining Database Storage Management

Ara Shakian Principal Product Manager Oracle Server Technologies

Agenda
What is Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
Functionality and architecture
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Admin roles and responsibilities Managing ASM is simple

Three flexible management interfaces

ASM utilities Oracle Database11g ASM beta features Customer proof points Summary

Automatic Storage Management

ASM Disk Group
ASM Disk ASM Disk ASM Disk ASM Disk ASM Disk

A storage manager designed to manage Oracle Database files

Volume Manager
1MB/128KB striping Flexible mirroring Online disk reconfigurations and automatic rebalancing File System Even data distribution with optimal performance Automatic file management using Oracle Managed Files (OMF) Cluster support with Oracle Clusterware

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datafiles file1 filen controlfile redolog1

ASM High Level Architecture

Database Instance ASM
- File layout info - Update statistics - Health info

SGA
ASM file extents

An Integrated Solution
ASM

Service Requests

ASM manages meta-data NOT in IO path Optimal Performance

DB Processes
LUN

DB I/O

ASM Key Values

Reduce Cost and Complexity Without Compromising Performance or Availability
Simplifies and Automates
Increases Storage Utilization Uptime & Agility Predictable Performance & Availability

No addition cost!

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Storage Management Roles & Responsibilities

Storage and ASM Administration

SYS Admin Role
Pre-Installation
Create LUNs Set ownership & permissions to Oracle User

ASM Admin Role

Installation
Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) Conf Assistants Create disk groups

Normal Operation
Monitor capacity & availability Provision capacity

ASM Reduces Management Complexity

Eliminate
LVM mgt for Oracle DB File system mgt for Oracle DB 3rd party clustering software File name management Reshuffling, reallocating, moving datafiles I/O performance tuning

Reduce significantly
LUN mgt (larger LUNs) Less frequent DBA & sys admin interaction Manual error prone tasks Troubleshooting Expanding Capacity

Traditional LVM/FS vs ASM Add Capacity

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. LVM/FS Add Disk to OS Create volume(s) with Volume Manager Create File System over volume Figure out data to move to new disk Move data to new files Rename files in database Re-tune I/O ASM 1. Add Disk to OS 2. Add disk to a disk group!

Three Flexible Management Interfaces 1. EM Database Control or Grid Control

2. SQL*Plus interface 3. ASMCMD tool
Managing ASM is Simple

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ASM Home Page

ASM Performance Page

ASM Administration Page

ASM Configuration Page

Three Flexible Management Interfaces

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1. EM Database Control or Grid Control

2. SQL*Plus interface
3. ASMCMD tool

ASM SQL*PLUS Command Structure

1 Create Disk Group
SQL> create diskgroup DataDG normal redundancy 2 failgroup controller1 disk 3 /devices/diska1, /devices/diska2 4 failgroup controller2 disk 5 /devices/diskb1, /devices/diskb2;

2 Delete a Disk Group

SQL> drop diskgroup DataDG;

Alter diskgroup SQL*Plus Command Structure

3

Alter Disk Group

alter diskgroup DataDG ADD/DROP/RESIZE disk alter diskgroup MOUNT/DISMOUNT alter diskgroup ADD/ALTER/DROP TEMPLATE alter diskgroup ADD/DROP DIRECTORY/ALIAS/FILE Select all V$ASM_* views

ASM Views - Examples

View Description

V$ASM_DISKGROUP V$ASM_DISK V$ASM_DISKGROUP_STAT V$ASM_DISK_STAT V$ASM_FILE

Describes a disk group (number, name, size related info, state, and redundancy type) Contains one row for every disk discovered by the ASM instance, including disks that are not part of any disk group. Has the same columns as V$ASM_DISKGROUP, but to reduce overhead, does not perform a discovery when it is queried. Has the same columns as V$ASM_DISK, but to reduce overhead, does not perform a discovery when it is queried. Contains one row for every ASM file in every disk group mounted by the ASM instance. Contains one row for every template present in every disk group mounted by the ASM Contains one row for every alias present in every disk group mounted by the ASM Contains one row for every active ASM long running operation executing in the ASM identifies databases using disk groups managed by the ASM instance

V$ASM_TEMPLATE
V$ASM_ALIAS V$ASM_OPERATION

V$ASM_CLIENT

Three Flexible Management Interfaces

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1. EM Database Control or Grid Control 2. SQL*Plus interface

3. ASMCMD tool
Empower the Sys Admin and DBA

ASM Command Line Interface (CLI)

ASM File Management Interactive Unix shell-like CLI for ASM file administration
ASMCMD> ls

Non-interactive CLI mode for scripting and batch processing

ASMCMD ls lH +DATAFILE/ORCL/CONTROLFILE

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ASM Utilities

Simplify Data Transfer and Migration

ASM Migration Utility with EM Grid Control

Database migration
Migrate DB files and recovery area to ASM using RMAN

Wizard walk-through
Create migration requests Schedule migration requests Report/monitor status of migration

ASM and XML DB Interface

ASM files can be accessed from XML DB virtual folders /sys/asm ASM files can be manipulated HTTP/WebDAV FTP DBMS_XDB API