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Re: Further Questions re ASM and RAC

From: Rajeev Prabhakar <rprabha01_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:13:26 -0400
Message-ID: <2ba656800704071313i790c88d7j4dcbc948d29e0cde@mail.gmail.com>


Hi Bill

May be, you should try the following steps and see if it helps you.

shutdown the asm instance.

Reinitialize the disks using dd and once that is over, ensure entries in the /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices. Restart rawdevice binding service. i.e. service rawdevices restart (as root)

Now, restart the ASM instance and try creating the diskgroup again with appropriate disks.

-Rajeev

On 4/6/07, William Wagman <wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am continuing to have difficulties getting ASM installed and
> configured in my two-node RAC cluster, Oracle 10.2.0.3.0 on RHEL3 and I
> am certain there is some very simple little bit which I am missing but I
> just can't figure this out.
>
> I encountered difficulties with the ASM installation a couple of days
> ago and it was suggested that I uninstall everything and start all over
> again with CRS which I did. I installed CRS and began the installation
> of ASM. I configured the ASM instance using the installer. When it got
> to the point of creating a disk group I accepted what I thought was the
> default 'DATA' and continued but the installer said such a group already
> existed. That surprised me because I thought I had removed all traces by
> uninstalling, deleteing and dd on disks. Nevertheless, the install
> seemed ok, it just couldn't mount the disk groups. I went ahead,
> installed the 10.2.0.3.0 patch set and am now trying to get the dis
> groups mounted and here is what I find. First, there is a diskgroup but
> it is not mounted...
>
> SQL> select * from v$asm_diskgroup;
>
> GROUP_NUMBER NAME SECTOR_SIZE BLOCK_SIZE
> ALLOCATION_UNIT_SIZE STATE
> ------------ ------------------------------ ----------- ----------
> -------------------- -----------
> TYPE TOTAL_MB FREE_MB REQUIRED_MIRROR_FREE_MB USABLE_FILE_MB
> OFFLINE_DISKS U
> ------ ---------- ---------- ----------------------- --------------
> ------------- -
> COMPATIBILITY
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> DATABASE_COMPATIBILITY
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 0 DATA 512 4096
> 1048576 DISMOUNTED
> 0 0 0 0
> 0 N
> 0.0.0.0.0
> 0.0.0.0.0
>
> I can't mount it...
>
> SQL> alter diskgroup data mount;
> alter diskgroup data mount
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
> ORA-15063: ASM discovered an insufficient number of disks for diskgroup
> "DATA"
>
> I can't add a disk...
>
> SQL> alter diskgroup data add disk '/dev/raw/raw3';
> alter diskgroup data add disk '/dev/raw/raw3'
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
> ORA-15001: diskgroup "DATA" does not exist or is not mounted
>
> Nor can I drop it...
>
> SQL> drop diskgroup data including contents;
> drop diskgroup data including contents
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-15039: diskgroup not dropped
> ORA-15001: diskgroup "DATA" does not exist or is not mounted
>
> So I tried to create a new disk group...
>
> SQL> create diskgroup GROUP1 external redundancy
> 2 disk '/dev/raw/raw3';
> create diskgroup GROUP1 external redundancy
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be created
> ORA-15020: discovered duplicate ASM disk "DATA_0000"
>
> But I don't see where that disk shows up...
>
> SQL> select group_number,disk_number,name,path from v$asm_disk;
>
> GROUP_NUMBER DISK_NUMBER NAME
> ------------ ----------- ------------------------------
> PATH
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------
> 0 0
> /dev/raw/raw4
>
> 0 1
> /dev/raw/raw3
>
> 0 4
> ORCL:VOL2
>
> 0 3
> ORCL:VOL1
>
> 0 2
> /dev/raw/raw2
>
> The parameter asm_diskstring is not set but I don't know if that has
> anything to do with this. I'm completely stuck, I don't know what else
> to look at. I did configure the disks with oracleasm and I am pretty
> sure I did that part correctly. Sorry to keep bugging everyone with this
> but I'm completely stuck. I suspect it is something simple that I am
> just not seeing. If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Wagman
> Univ. of California at Davis
> IET Campus Data Center
> wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu
> (530) 754-6208
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