For highly performant Oracle databases, the storage must be scalable, resilient, and easy to manage—especially as infrastructure complexity grows with Real Application Cluster (RAC), virtualized infrastructure, and multi-tenant database architectures.
Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is the vendor’s answer to these challenges by providing an integrated volume manager and file system that is purpose-built for Oracle databases.
What Is Oracle ASM?
Oracle ASM is a high-performance, cluster-aware storage management layer embedded within Oracle. It abstracts the complexity of traditional storage management by treating physical disks as logical units grouped into disk groups, which Oracle then manages on behalf of the