Oracle Automatic Storage Management 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) New Features

Oracle Automatic Storage Management 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) New Features

·         Oracle ACFS security

The Oracle ACFS security feature provides realm-based security for Oracle ACFS file systems.

Oracle ACFS security enables you to create realms to specify security policies for users and groups to determine access on file system objects. The Oracle ACFS security feature provides a finer-grained access control on top of the access control provided by the operating system.

Oracle ACFS security can use the encryption feature to protect the contents of realm-secured files stored in Oracle ACFS file systems.

·         Oracle ACFS encryption

The Oracle ACFS encryption feature enables you to encrypt data stored on disk (data-at-rest).

Oracle ACFS encryption protects data in an Oracle ACFS file system in encrypted format to prevent unauthorized use of data in the case of data loss or theft.

·         Oracle ACFS replication

This feature enables replication of Oracle ACFS file systems across the network to a remote site, providing disaster recovery capability for the file system.

This release of the feature supports only one standby file system for each primary file system.

·         Oracle ACFS tagging

This feature provides a method for relating a group of files based on a common naming attribute assigned to these files called a tag name. Oracle ACFS Replication can use this tagging feature to select specific files with a unique tag name for replication to a different remote cluster site. This tagging option reduces the need to replicate an entire Oracle ACFS file system.

·         New configuration wizard for cluster configuration outside of software installation

This feature provides a wizard to configure an Oracle Grid Infrastructure environment after the installation has completed and has been tested.

·         Oracle ACFS functionality on the Solaris operating system

This feature provides Oracle ACFS functionality on the Solaris operating system.

·         Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant enhancements

These enhancements to ASMCA provide support for Oracle ACFS file system security and encryption.