ASM Allocation unit : default size is 1 MB.

disk partners: stripe width: stripe size / block size / data unit size : fine striping : uses 128k stripe width coarse striping: uses 1MB stipe width. mirroring on per-file basis mirroring is done at extent level. SAME: Stipe And Mirror Everything. raw devices are placed on character devices Character Device: holds only one file Block Device: same as character device but Holds entire FS Name and Path of raw device depends on OS sunOS: has naming convention - cNtNdNsN [cN is the controller number; tN is the target ID (SCSI ID); dN is the disk numb er, which is the LUN descriptor; and sN is the slice number or partition number] eg: c0t0d2s3 HPUX: has naming convention - cNtNdN (HPUX doesn't support slices) Linux: path - /dev/raw and names raw1 to raw255. Linux supports 255 raw devices raw bindings are not persistent. they need to be configured in /etc/sysconfig/ra wdevices [device raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/sda1] each DB using ASM has ASMB, RBAL BG processes. each DB instance maintains pool of connections. slave processes are used in connection pool. (o000 to o0010) slaves are not used for long running transactions. internal packages used by ASM are run from large pool. large_pool_size should be >8MB when disk group is created, it's mounted and entry gets updated in spfile. ARBx is responisble for rebalancing disk during storage reconfiguration. ASM metadata is maintained in blocks. each block is 4k. ASM metadata is triple mirrored. GCS discovers ASM instance recovery (when 2 ASM instances mount same diskgoup, i f one ASM instance fails, other instance automatically recovers transient metada ta changes caused by failed instance.) ASM Crash Recovery: When ASM instance mounts a failed diskgroup (a diskgroup not mounted by any other ASM instance) it reads the diskgroup log and recovers all transient changes.

virtual folder /sys/asm contains subdirectories and files of all asm diskgroups. ASMLib Functions: - Device discovery Functions - I/O Processing Functions - Performance & Reliability Funcions.

V$asm_operation v$asm_disk_stat v$asm_diskgroup_stat v$filestat

OCFS: FS available on Linux and Windows. (no volume manager functionality) Not integrated with RDBMS kernel like ASM No OEM support (No GUI Tools) No striping or mirroring support.