I think if you did correct parameter setting of your '+ASM' instance, you
will find DISKs when you create new db with ASM option. What's the problem
you met? Cannot find the DISKs?
On 2/27/06, Zabair Ahmed <roon987_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Thks Mike,
>
> What am finding confusing is the following statement (from Oracle
> Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide 10g
> Release 2 (10.2) for Solaris OS - B14205-03), page 3-13 Configuring
> Database File Storage on ASM and Raw Devices.
>
> To use ASM with raw partitions, you must creatre sufficient partitions for
> your data files, and then bind the partitions to raw devices.
>
> The question is how does the sysadmin do this when all he has is 50GB of
> SAN storage. I know this is more of unix question, but i can't get my head
> round this. We are not using any LVM.
>
> Also i presume you have installed your ASM instance in it's own
> ORACLE_HOME.
>
> TIA
>
>
>
>
>
> *"Kurth, Michael J." <mkurth_at_wfs-ops.org>* wrote:
>
> My environment is EVA8000 san running HPUX, where we configured 3 disk
> groups.
>
> 2 of them for staggering database files between 1 system and another, and
> the 3rd for
> backups and archived logs. In other words:
>
> diskgroup1 diskgroup2 diskgroup3
> --------------- --------------- ---------------
>
> database 1 database 2 backups/arch logs
> database 3 database 4
> database 5 database 6
>
> *Mike Kurth*
> Senior Oracle DBA
> Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc.
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> Glendale, Wisconsin 53212
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> mkurth_at_wfs-ops.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Zabair Ahmed
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 26, 2006 5:17 AM
> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* RAC ASM 10.2.0.1.0 Solaris 9
>
> Am trying to get my head round on how to configure the disk storage so
> that i can use this for my ASM RAC database.
>
> I've got in total 50GB on a HDS SAN (RAID5) to play with. My question is
> how do i configure this so that i can use the storage for my ASM disk
> group(s).
>
> Do i ask the sysadmins to create me a 50GB raw partition?
>
> TIA
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