Developers Guide

Executive summary
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Executive summary
One key IT and business challenge is to manage and provision storage to accommodate the increasingly
demanding requirements of a growing Oracle
®
database. Protecting a database and ensuring its integrity and
availability is also mandatory for business success.
When designing the physical structure of a database, administrators must consider different storage
configuration options. Storage solutions must facilitate high performance I/O and provide protection against
failure of storage hardware such as disks and host bus adapters (HBAs). Growing and changing workloads
require a dynamic storage configuration that provides a way to automate storage-related tasks, reducing the
risk of human error.
The Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature simplifies storage provisioning and data layout
challenges. In combination with ASM, the Dell EMC™ SC Series thin provisioning and dynamic block
architecture software allow Oracle data to be easily accessible, provide a data lifecycle management
structure, and enable dynamic capacity in less time than other traditional storage solutions. The intent of this
document is to help readers understand best practices of SC Series storage in Fibre Channel environments
when deploying Oracle ASM or Flex ASM. This helps to deliver a cost-effective alternative that meets the
performance and fault-tolerant storage requirements of Oracle deployments.