As storage requirements double every 18 months, Oracle customers continue to deal with complex storage management challenges in their data centers. Conventional methods to manage storage are too complex and costly because the customer is typically forced to be the integrator for multiple tools and software layers when it pertains to choosing their storage hardware platforms, as well as volume and filesystem management and clustering platforms. This problem is compounded when it comes to effectively managing their structured and non-structured data on multiple platforms having to deal with multiple vendors for support, learning different tools with varying user interfaces and procedures for installation, configuration, performance tuning, and management in general.
The Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 extends ASM functionality to manage ALL data—Oracle database files, Oracle Clusterware files, and non-structured...