This Oracle 11g training course provides a step-by-step guide for configuring and using the Oracle Grid Infrastructure in a single server environment, and it forms the basis for expanding this infrastructure to a clustered server configuration. Advanced database and storage administration tasks are considered, including Oracle Restart and Automatic Storage Management (ASM). With this course you will learn about: Preparing a host system for the Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RDBMS installations and performing those installations; Preparing a host system for ASM storage management; Partitioning and configuration of storage devices for ASM storage on both Linux and MS Windows servers; Utilizing Oracle Restart for automatic sequencing and restarting of Oracle software components; Obtain an introduction to Oracle High-Availability Services including the Server Control and Clusterware Control utilities; Review the Oracle server stack architecture including operating system virtualization and storage subsystem virtualization layers; Using ASM for storage of some or all database files, thereby providing a database-centric and optimized storage and volume manager; Exploiting ASM storage from the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA), Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA) and the Enterprise Manager (EM) interface; Administration of an ASM instance and management of ASM disk groups; Implement advanced storage capabilities including Intelligent Data Placement, Highcapacity disk drives and access control privileges; Manage storage systems using the ASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA) and the ASM command-line interface (ASMCMD); Migrate a database from traditional file system storage to ASM storage; Monitoring performance and throughput of ASM devices