11 Introducing Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM

Oracle ASM Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) and Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (Oracle ADVM) provide key components of storage management.

This chapter describes the components of Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) and Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (Oracle ADVM).

This chapter provides concepts and an overview of Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM features with the following topics:

• Overview of Oracle ACFS

• Understanding Oracle ACFS Concepts

• Understanding Oracle ACFS Administration

• Overview of Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager

See Also:

• Managing Oracle ADVM Volumes in a Disk Group for information about using SQL*Plus to administer volumes

• Oracle ACFS Features Enabled by Compatibility Attribute Settings for information about Oracle ACFS features and disk group attribute settings

• Managing Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM With ASMCA for information about using Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant to administer Oracle ACFS

• Using Views to Display Oracle ACFS Information for information about using views to obtain Oracle ACFS information

• Managing Oracle ADVM with ASMCMD for information about volume management commands

• Managing Oracle ACFS with Command-Line Tools for information about Oracle ACFS operating system utilities