What is Flex ASM? Why we require Flex ASM?
In Earlier Version of Oracle, Database Instance and ASM Instance reside on same Local Server.
Which mainly had below risks:
- If ASM Fails,Database Client must Fail.
- Resources are consumed by Oracle and ASM on same local Server.
With FLEX ASM:
ASM Client that is Database Instance can use network connection to access ASM which is clustered separately. This provide below benefits:
- If ASM Fails,Its Client(Database) can connect to other Instance of ASM.
- Resources are saved because ASM is no required on every Database Server,that is now Database Instance count and ASM Instance count is not equal and can be configured as per requirement.
