How does Migrate Oracle Database To ASM Using ASMCMD
Oracle Database 10g Release 1 introduced Automatic Storage Management (ASM), a new framework for managing Oracle database files. ASM provides a foundation for highly efficient storage management with direct I/O, redundancy, striping and load balancing. Files stored on ASM are evenly distributed across disks in a disk group and mirrored according to the policies defined in the disk group. Since ASM provides an easy and highly efficient way to manage storage, it is the recommended file system for storing database files for RAC as well as single instance databases. The following types of database files can be stored in ASM diskgroups: Control files Datafiles, temporary datafiles, and datafile copies SPFILEs Online redo logs, archive logs, and Flashback logs RMAN backups Disaster recovery configurations Change tracking bitmaps Data Pump dumpsets To take advantage of ASM with an existing database using non-ASM storage, all or part of the database needs to be migrated into AS...