Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)

This paper discusses some guidelines for administering space usage for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). The back-end storage controller used with SVC is the IBM System Storage DS8000. The discussion includes scenarios which show the tasks necessary for space administration in a checklist format. The scenarios presented assume that space administration is occurring during periods of high storage I/O activity. Therefore, a freely available Oracle load generator, Swingbench, is used to generate a heavy I/O workload during the exercises.