Oracle ASM provides near unlimited capacity for future growth, but does have some storage limits.
Oracle ASM has the following limits on the number of disk groups, disks, and files:511 disk groups in a storage system for Oracle Database 12cRelease 1 or later
10,000 Oracle ASM disks in a disk group
65530 Oracle ASM disks in a storage system
1 million files for each disk group
Without any Oracle Exadata Storage, Oracle ASM has the following storage limits if theCOMPATIBLE.ASMorCOMPATIBLE.RDBMSdisk group attribute is set to less than12.1:2 terabytes (TB) maximum storage for each Oracle ASM disk
20 petabytes (PB) maximum for the storage system
Without any Oracle Exadata Storage, Oracle ASM has the following storage limits if theCOMPATIBLE.ASMandCOMPATIBLE.RDBMSdisk group attributes are set to12.1or greater:4 PB maximum storage for each Oracle ASM disk with the allocation unit (AU) size equal to 1 MB
8 PB maximum storage for each Oracle ASM disk with the AU size equal to 2 MB
16 PB maximum storage for each Oracle ASM disk with the AU size equal to 4 MB
32 PB maximum storage for each Oracle ASM disk with the AU size equal to 8 MB
320 exabytes (EB) maximum for the storage system
With all Oracle Exadata Storage, Oracle ASM has the following storage limits:4 PB maximum storage for each Oracle ASM disk with the AU size equal to 1 MB
8 PB maximum storage for each Oracle ASM disk with the AU size equal to 2 MB
16 PB maximum storage for each Oracle ASM disk with the AU size equal to 4 MB
32 PB maximum storage for each Oracle ASM disk with the AU size equal to 8 MB
320 EB maximum for the storage system
The maximum size limit of a disk group equals the maximum disk size multiplied by the maximum number of disks in a disk group (10,000).
The maximum number of disks across all disk groups is 10,000. The 10,000 disks can be in one disk group or distributed across a maximum of 511 disk groups. This is a limitation on the number of Oracle ASM disks, not necessarily the number of spindles. A storage array could group multiple spindles into a LUN that is used as a single Oracle ASM disk.
File size limits are dependent on the value of the disk group compatibility attributes. Oracle ASM supports file sizes greater than 128 TB in any redundancy mode when theCOMPATIBLE.RDBMSdisk group attribute is set greater than10.1.
IfCOMPATIBLE.RDBMSis set to10.1, the file size limits are less. For example, withCOMPATIBLE.RDBMSequal to10.1and the AU size equal to 1 MB, Oracle ASM file size limits are:External redundancy: 16 TB
Normal redundancy: 5.8 TB
High redundancy: 3.9 TB