I’ve been reading about Automatic Storage Management (ASM) that was introduced with Oracle 10g (R1, I think). Not being an Oracle DBA, it looks very promising on the surface. The idea is to let Oracle deal with disks that house Oracle data. A major benefit is it’s ability to handle “hot spots.” ASM can do mirroring, striping or both. Disks can be added and subtracted on the fly, while the database is still up. Very cool. Check out the following links:
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