Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is a new feature in Oracle10g that alleviates the DBA from having to manually manage and tune disks used by Oracle databases. ASM provides the DBA with a file system and volume manager that makes use of an Oracle instance (referred to as an ASM instance) and can be managed using either SQL or Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Only one ASM instance is required per node. The same ASM instance can manage ASM storage for all 10g databases running on the node.
When the DBA installs the Oracle10g software and creates a new database, creating an ASM instance is a snap. The DBCA provides a simple check box and an easy wizard to create an ASM instance as well as an Oracle database that makes use of the new ASM instance for ASM storage. But, what happens when the DBA is migrating to Oracle10g or didn't opt to use ASM when a 10g database was first created. The DBA will need to know how to manually create an ASM instance and that is what this article provides.
- Overview
- Configuring Oracle Cluster Synchronization Services (CSS)
- Creating the ASM Instance
- Identify RAW Devices
- Starting the ASM Instance
- Verify RAW / Logical Disk Are Discovered
- Creating Disk Groups
- Using Disk Groups
- Startup Scripts
Go through the below link to cover all the above topic.
http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Oracle/DBA_tips/Automatic_Storage_Management/ASM_10.shtmlNote: Automatic Storage Management (ASM) requires the use of Oracle Cluster Synchronization Services (CSS), and as such, CSS must be configured and running before attempting to use ASM. The CSS service is required to enable synchronization between an ASM instance and the database instances that rely on it for database file storage.
With Oracle10g R1, CSS was always configured regardless of whether you chose to configure ASM or not. On the Linux / UNIX platform, CSS was installed and configured via the root.sh script. This caused a lot of problems since many did not know what this process was, and for most of them, didn't want the CSS process running since they were not using ASM.
Oracle listened carefully to the concerns (and strongly worded complaints) about the CSS process and in Oracle10g R2, will only configure this process when it is absolutely necessary. In Oracle10g R2, for example, if you don't choose to configure an ASM stand-alone instance or if you don't choose to configure a database that uses ASM storage, Oracle will not automatically configure CSS in the root.sh script.
In the case where the CSS process is not configured to run on the node (see above), you can make use of the $ORACLE_HOME/bin/localconfig script in Linux / UNIX or %ORACLE_HOME%\bin\localconfig.bat batch file in Windows. For example in Linux, run the following command as root to configure CSS outside of the root.sh script after the fact:
