Explanation:
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) and Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (Oracle ADVM) extend Oracle ASM support to include database and application executables, database trace files, database alert logs, application reports, BFILEs, and configuration files. Other supported files are video, audio, text, images, engineering drawings, and other general-purpose application file data. Because of the fact that Oracle ADVM Volumes are technically spoken ASM files located on ASM Disk groups, and the fact that the Dynamic Volumes do not use the traditional device partitioning, it enables Oracle to extend some of the ASM features to the ASM Clustered File Systems, which are created inside these ADVM Volumes, such as dynamic resizing or dynamically adding volumes. This makes ADVM and ACFS a far more flexible solution than traditional physical devices. Important Notes:
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) and Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (Oracle ADVM) extend Oracle ASM support to include database and application executables, database trace files, database alert logs, application reports, BFILEs, and configuration files. Other supported files are video, audio, text, images, engineering drawings, and other general-purpose application file data.
Because of the fact that Oracle ADVM Volumes are technically spoken ASM files located on ASM Disk groups, and the fact that the Dynamic Volumes do not use the traditional device partitioning, it enables Oracle to extend some of the ASM features to the ASM Clustered File Systems, which are created inside these ADVM Volumes, such as dynamic resizing or dynamically adding volumes. This makes ADVM and ACFS a far more flexible solution than traditional physical devices.
Important Notes: