Developers Guide

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3 Dell EMC SC Series Storage with Oracle ASM | CML1111
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 How to use this document .................................................................................................................................. 5
1.2 Objective ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1.3 Audience ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1.4 Prerequisites ....................................................................................................................................................... 6
2 Technology overview .................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 SC Series storage .............................................................................................................................................. 7
2.2 Oracle technology ............................................................................................................................................... 7
2.3 Oracle ASM features .......................................................................................................................................... 7
2.3.1 Oracle Flex ASM features .................................................................................................................................. 8
2.3.2 Oracle ASMLib features ................................................................................................................................... 10
2.3.3 Benefits of ASM, Flex ASM, and ASMLib ........................................................................................................ 10
3 Components of ASM .................................................................................................................................................. 11
3.1 ASM instance .................................................................................................................................................... 11
3.2 ASMLib ............................................................................................................................................................. 11
3.3 Disk groups ....................................................................................................................................................... 11
3.3.1 ASM disk group redundancy ............................................................................................................................ 12
4 ASM best practices with SC Series storage ............................................................................................................... 13
5 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 15
A Flex ASM client query ................................................................................................................................................ 16
B Other useful commands for an ASM environment ..................................................................................................... 18
C 512 byte and 4K byte sectors ..................................................................................................................................... 19
D Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 20
D.1 Related resources ............................................................................................................................................ 20