# Oracle ASM

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/oracle-asm/23691>\
**Category:** SLES High Availability Extension\
**Created:** [March 4, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/oracle-asm/23691 "2013-03-04T15:19:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![edixx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@edixx](https://forums.suse.com/u/edixx)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/oracle-asm/23691/1 "2013-03-04T15:19:42Z")

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Is ASM supported on SLES11 HA?  
Thank you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/oracle-asm/23691/2 "2013-03-04T20:00:02Z")

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On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:24:02 +0000, edixx wrote:  
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> Is ASM supported on SLES11 HA?[/color]

What sort of “support” are you looking for?

Overview of Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) simplifies administration of Oracle  
related files by allowing the administrator to reference disk groups  
rather than individual disks and files, which are managed by ASM. The ASM  
functionality is an extention of the Oracle Managed Files (OMF)  
functionality that also includes striping and mirroring to provide  
balanced and secure storage. The new ASM functionality can be used in  
combination with existing raw and cooked file systems, along with OMF and  
manually managed files.

Given what SLES/HA actually manages, and how, it seems like this would  
probably work, but I’m not an Oracle expert and won’t begin to try to  
tell you how to configure it.

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