Introduction

Ever since Oracle announced the Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature, database administrators (DBAs) and their supporting system administrators and storage administrators were eager to see what Oracle had developed and where this product was headed. Not surprisingly, the adoption rate for ASM has been outstanding.

Users were fervent about getting information on how ASM works and how they could integrate it into their environment. The motivation for this book is to satisfy the hunger for those anxiously looking for a "real" deployment guide for ASM.

Before we jump into the book, let's review what's in this book, what's not in this book, and who should read it. Then we will quickly review ASM at a high level and its benefits. ...

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