ASM has other features as well other than Just data mirroring
- Load balancing in parallel across disk drives
to prevent hot spots and maximize performance,
with rapidly changing data usage patterns.
- Online disk space reorganization for the incremental addition
or removal of storage capacity, No need to have
a database downtime for this
- Reduced number of objects to manage
(via disk groups)
- ASM also overcomes file system size limitations.
since no file system is involved.
Received on Tue May 25 2004 - 06:46:05 CDT
