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Oracle ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)- See Whats New

Ara Shakian
Principle Product Manager

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Table of Contents

Storage management challenges

Oracle Cluster File System Cloud Edition
ASM and ACFS overview
ACFS new features in 11.2.0.2 patch set
ACFS use cases
ASM as an integrated solution
ASM reference customers

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Challenges of Managing
Data Explosion
What problem are we trying to solve?
Lack of a single solution for all data
Lack of automation in storage provisioning
Complexity of managing performance
Multi-vendor support logistics and finger
pointing
Reducing Storage Total Cost of Ownership

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Oracle Cluster File SystemCloud Edition

What is it?

Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (ADVM)
ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)
ACFS data services (snapshot, replication tagging, security,
encryption)

Licensing
Included and free with all editions of the database for storing:
Oracle Database files, Oracle application binaries, Oracle homes
Oracle software administrative and diagnostics files
License fee required for all non-Oracle database and non-Oracle
application files

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Oracle Cluster File SystemCloud Edition

Simplifies pooling of storage
across databases,
middleware, and applications
in a cloud
Provides network accessible
storage with unified
namespace for databases and
files
Supports rapid elasticity
through online storage
provisioning

Applications
Middleware
Database
Oracle Cluster File SystemCloud Edition

Oracle VM (optional)

Managing ALL Data within the Cloud

Database RAC

3rd Party FS

Application

Oracle Cluster File System Cloud Edition

Snapshot

Automatic
Storage
Management
(ASM)

ASM
Disk
Group

ASM Files

DB
Datafiles
DB
Datafiles
DB
Datafiles
DB
DB
Datafiles
DBDatafiles
Datafiles
OCR
OCR&&Voting
Votingfiles
files

Tagging

Security

Replication

Encryption

ASM Cluster & Single Node File System

(ACFS)

Dynamic Volume Manager

Dynamic Volumes

ACFS FS
Oracle
Bin

3rd Party
FS

Automatic Storage Management

Overview
Key Features
ASMDisk
ASMDisk
ASMDisk
ASMDisk
ASMDisk

File system and volume manger for all data

Storage pool for provisioning and consolidation
Dynamic rebalancing for even distribution of IO
Flexible Striping and mirroring for performance
and availability

Key Benefits
ASM
Disk Group

Simplifies and automates file management

Reduces complexity and overhead
Provides best performance
Reduces total cost of ownership

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Oracle Automatic Storage

Management
Enables Elastic Storage
Sales
Sales Clients
Clients

Back
Back Office
Office
Clients
Clients

Sales
Sales Pool
Pool

Back
Back Office
Office Pool
Pool

Most Critical

Least
Critical

Alert: Disk space low Add more storage.

Action: Storage added rebalancing started.

ASM Dynamic Volume Manager

OS
/dev/asm/volume1-123

New general purpose volume platform

Supports ACFS and 3rd party file systems
Eliminates the need for 3rd party VMgrs

New ASM volume management service

ASM DG
+DATA/volume1

Cluster and single host volumes

Loadable kernel driver

Dynamic Volume is an ASM file

+DATA/volume1 /dev/asm/volume1-123
Leverages ASM features
Easy on line provisioning

Cross platform (Linux, Windows, UNIX)

Managed using ASMCMD, EM and SQL

Note: An AVD volume device may not be used as an OS boot or swap

device,
nor used as a root file system of the OS
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What is ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)

General purpose file system for non-DB files

Journaling, extent based

POSIX, X/OPEN file system solution for UNIX/Linux
Windows file system solution for Windows platforms
Single node and cluster
Scalable and high performance
Supports NFS and CIFS protocols

Multi OS platform - Linux, Windows, Solaris and AIX

Integrated with Oracle system mgt tools
Oracle installation/configuration, EM and native OS tools

Supports advanced data services

Snapshot, Replication, Tagging, Security and Encryption

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Whats New in
Oracle ASM 11g 11.2.0.2 - Patch Set 1
Linux

Windows

Solaris/AIX

Bug Fixes

Yes

Yes

Yes, + Port

Snapshot

Yes

Yes

Yes + Port

Yes

Future

Future

Tagging,
Replication,
Security,
Encryption

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ACFS Tagging
ACFS Tagging allows group operations on files
spread throughout your file systems
ACFS Tagging assigns a common naming attribute to a group
of files
File operations can be performed based on tagging attributes

Tagging is configured and managed by acfsutil tag

command line
Specify tag names for directories and files
$ /sbin/acfsutil tag set r resume /dev/asm/acfsvol302/test/resumes

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ACFS Replication
Compliments Data Guard and provides a complete
DR solution for all files
Enables replication of ACFS file systems across the
network to a remote site
Replication logs are used to replicate from primary to
standby asynchronously

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Key Drivers for Data Security &

Encryption
Regulatory Compliance

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), J-SOX, HIPAA

GLBA
Payment Card Industry (PCI)
EU Privacy Directives, CA SB 1386.
Adequate IT controls, COSO, COBIT
Separation of duty, Proof of compliance,
Risk Assessment and Monitoring

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ACFS Security
Fine grained access control in addition to OS ACLs
Enforces security policies through realms, rules, rule
sets and command rules
Realm is a group of files/directories secured for access by users
Rule sets are collection of rules
Command rules use rule sets to allow/disallow operations

Integrated with Oracle system mgt tools

ASMCA support for basic configurations
Extensions to ACFS command line tools for easy use via acfsutil

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ACFS Encryption
Protects data-at-rest through encryption
Prevents unauthorized use of data in case of data loss or theft
Secure encryption keys to decode data

Flexibility to encrypt the entire file system and/or just

individual files and directories
Transparent to users and applications
Users and apps get decrypted data

High level protection using two keys

File Encryption Key (FEK) to encrypt file data
Volume Encryption Key (VEK) to encrypt FEK

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ACFS Use Cases

Data Type

Data Model

Personal files

Home directories, documents, etc...

ACFS file systems

exported thru NFS/CIFS

ACFS

System and application files

System files

Application binaries

ACFS file systems

exported thru NFS/CIFS
Single node or cluster
ACFS file systems

ACFS

Business data

Business files not stored in the database

Business critical data

Single node or cluster

ACFS file systems

ACFS

Store Personal Files on ACFS

Configure ACFS as a Network
File Server

NFS or CIFS
Network Protocols

Single node or cluster for HA

Easy provisioning
Simple management

Client computers can mount

ACFS NFS/CIFS file systems
Home directories, documents,
photos and personal data

ACFS FS
mount points

ACFS Network File Server

(NFS/CIFS)

System & Application Files on ACFS

ACFS configuration alternatives
ACFS single node or cluster server
ACFS Network File Server

Oracle
Oracle DB
DB
Binaries
Binaries

Data types on ACFS

System files (not including boot FS and Grid
Infrastructure home)
System files, trace files, log files, import/export files,
system and application dump files, etc

SAP
SAP
Application
Application
Binaries
Binaries

Siebel
Siebel
Application
Application
Oracle
Oracle
EBusiness
EBusiness

Binaries
Binaries

Suite
Suite

Application files and binaries

Oracle database home (Shared or node-local)
Oracle and 3rd party application binaries and
supporting files I.e. SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, etc

33rdrd Party
Party
File
File System
System

ACFS
File Systems

ASM Disk Group

Business Data on ACFS

Database external files may be
stored in an ACFS cluster

BFILEs
BFILEs

Photos
Photos
Images
Images
Medical
Medical
Images
Images

External
External
tables
tables

Reports
Reports

Data types
Files or data managed by business
applications not stored in database
Images, manuals, reports, contracts,
external tables, and BFILEs
Business critical data
Application data with true cluster file
system functionality requirements (cache
coherency, shared read/write, etc)

ACFS File Systems

ASM Disk Group

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Daniel Smith
Senior DBA, Carfax Inc.
"Oracles new security feature in ACFS gives us
fine-grain and secure control over sensitive data
that needs the extra protection. In addition, ACFS
replication coupled with Oracle Data Guard
provide a complete Disaster recovery solution for
database files, external files and all other general
purpose files in the OS".

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NTT Data Interlink

"Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) takes us a
step closer to Cloud Computing and Cost Optimization.
The new RAC Quality of Service Management (QoS)
coupled with wider platform support for ASM Cluster
File System (ACFS) and RAC One node enable
predictable performance and higher availability, both
essential in consolidated environments."

One Integrated Solution for ALL Data

Simple Low Cost High Performance Always On-Line
Scalable
Optimal Utilization
Snapshot

RAC One

Replication

Un-structured
Data
Structured
Data

Security
Encryption

Tagging

ACFS
ASM

&
Dynamic Volumes

Oracle Database
&

Oracle Clusterware

One Management
Interface
One Install and
Configure
One Clusterware
Framework

RAC

Cross Platform
Linux, Windows, Solaris,
HP-UX, AIX

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One Vendor for

Support

ASM adoption

Up
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De-facto standard for RAC and grid

deployments, >65%
De-facto standard for VLDB
deployments
Large and growing adoption for
single instance deployments, >20%
Thousands of customers using ASM
One of the most popular features in
the database

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Some ASM Reference Customers In Production

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Storage Cloud

Storage service
Characteristics
Storage pooling
Network accessible
storage, files, and data
Elastic storage pool

Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Application Cloud

Database Cloud

Storage Cloud

Oracle ASM Cluster File System

Replicates Files for Disaster Protection
Production Site

DR Site

Sales
SalesClients
Clients

Back
BackOffice
OfficeClients
Clients

Sales
SalesClients
Clients

Back
BackOffice
OfficeClients
Clients

Sales
SalesApp
AppPool
Pool

Back
BackOffice
OfficeApp
AppPool
Pool

Sales
SalesApp
AppPool
Pool

Back
BackOffice
OfficeApp
AppPool
Pool

Sales
SalesDB
DBPool
Pool

Back
Back Office
OfficeDB
DBPool
Pool

Sales
SalesDB
DBPool
Pool

Back
BackOffice
OfficeDB
DBPool
Pool

Most Critical

Least Critical

Most Critical

Least Critical

Oracle DataGuard

Oracle Homes, DB Files, Logs, Applications

Oracle ACFS
Replication

Oracle Homes, DB Files, Logs, Applications

Oracle ASM Cluster File System

Highly available general purpose cluster file system
Supports all ASM automatic features
Advanced Management Features
Recover from accidents with point-in-time snapshots
Supports Flexible Continuous Replication
Manage file access policies with ACFSs Security
Infrastructure
Supports encryption at file or volume levels
Easily aggregate operations across files and types with
annotations