Description of the illustration ostmg003.eps

This is an illustration of Oracle ASM for single-instance Oracle Databases. The illustration shows three separate Oracle Databases at the top and below these is one Oracle ASM instance that serves all three databases. The server where the Oracle ASM instance resides accesses both disk groups that are shown at the bottom.

These are disk group A and disk group B. Disk group A has four disks and disk group B has two disks.