Received: (qmail 7688 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2011 22:36:56 -0600 Received: from freelists-180.iquest.net (HELO turing.freelists.org) (206.53.239.180) by static-ip-85-25-126-90.inaddr.intergenia.de with SMTP; 1 Jan 2011 22:36:39 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 7E793D5BA2F; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:36:37 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=freelists.org; s=turing; t=1293942997; bh=Bs/bgQxR0S3wTHTcpmzj7LuaaVghPkWT3C6HBjHZ ffU=; h=MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID:Subject: From:To:Cc:Content-Type:Sender:Reply-To:List-help:List-unsubscribe: List-Id:List-subscribe:List-owner:List-post:List-archive; b=xmDvhC C/UAUhWjqfmxY35+j+Sm59fNrrwRCPiVnURmUE2DJNar/55PK1o8LM5yq8OXOsK7MIb pJ4TMJC5UncsKiCp69Df3pTD0CnU9mM8rBG89BQtzKPSflqkS9la6e/GvyIjuuS0X6f LIfStUHN5KbR2E9+SxfBKF78ELLW3L0= X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at localhost.localdomain Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing.freelists.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nAWH8B-4yIHn; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:36:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 1A6E8D59808; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:35:54 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:35:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 319EFD5989E for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:35:12 -0500 (EST) Authentication-Results: turing.freelists.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.i=@gmail.com Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing.freelists.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9zFsk0P0o+BJ for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:35:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-wy0-f179.google.com (mail-wy0-f179.google.com [74.125.82.179]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 87392D59759 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:35:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so12538600wyi.10 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:35:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=oKv+aJ4aDUOmtkCTwwruKfqoVukBPbdqOu04/MXCphw=; b=FkTKrgRvrNB5XcXqkIBSQvrM5Q3LrHH84NCVkP/yTgTgJZndSu7GAKV6rlO5w6CiKU rzEehdQ9YKBRV7VsR+TgSl0ScDOdzaQDFfHem0pTzA50v09tBN4ULXqNDSWJlfOlpG/4 nh6oqnPTS9ePfvY/xvoR+zo2kMX/jAfAsAyGM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=LpQwzkelSwG2eRH+jYLWiFs1MyEvZ98Jx9b9GCft2S3r+lS74nZ4/BvQFZ7Za1IHhD E4tnzz+fPHmMOq0/G9k5a8dyOzIUuLkmpeX81Mr6ICrX2BPAjmsup4BDPI8uCNSXzbUk 2d67k83eHvfa6/IsSpuKlcPHjI2ifYAXurwuw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.156.69 with SMTP id v5mr11115546wbw.10.1293942909279; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.227.143.145 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:35:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:35:09 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Disks not detected during ASM setup 11gR2 From: sundar mahadevan To: Sreejith Nair Cc: Oracle-L@freelists.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636458c20779e890498d58f31 X-archive-position: 33470 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-to: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: sundarmahadevan82@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: sundarmahadevan82@gmail.com List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: oracle-l X-List-ID: oracle-l List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: oracle-l --001636458c20779e890498d58f31 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks Sreejith. You provided me with the hint and I just configured and created the asmdisk with asmlib and there it was detected. I did not know that I have to configure asmlib before starting the installer. Thanks a lot. On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, sundar mahadevan < sundarmahadevan82@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sreejith, > Thanks for the info on grid home. Yes, I installed ASMlib but are there any > configurations to make the LUN as a candidate disk? So should I do it before > I run the grid installer? Please confirm. Thanks. > > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Sreejith Nair wrote: > >> Hi Sundar, >> I have just started to setup 11gR2 RAC on 2 Linux boxes with 100gb. lun >> SAN. With 11gR2, there are a few changes like >> 1. ASM,OCR and VD is part of a single home called grid home. >> 2. Database software binaries in ORACLE_HOME. >> I have just downloaded ASMlib to mark my LUN as a candidate disk,so that >> my grid infrastructure installation could detect it. However I did not try >> that yet. Did you try with ASMlib? >> >> Cheers, >> SSN >> -- Sreejith Nair >> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> "sundar mahadevan" wrote: >> >> >Hi All, >> >Wish you all a very happy new year. I am trying to setup a 11gR2 non >> >RAC >> >with ASM on OEL 5.4 I am having trouble setting up ASM. I have an ACER >> >laptop with 4GB RAM and 320 GB hard drive each. Would appreciate if you >> >could help me with the following: >> > >> >1) ASM is defined as a feature. So is there a file system underneath or >> >is >> >it working on raw devices? I did not find a straight answer for this. >> >2) To setup 11gR2 RAC with ASM and 11gR2 NON RAC with ASM, am I correct >> >in >> >understanding that 2 separate binaries are required on 2 >> >laptops/servers >> >meaning there will be 4 oracle homes: 1 for ASM, 1 for RAC binary, 1 >> >for Non >> >RAC binary, 1 for clusterware >> >3) I installed a 11gR2 non rac binary successfully (just the software >> >no >> >database). Now I am trying to install ASM with grid infrastructure >> >runinstaller. My disks are not detected at this stage. The default OS >> >setup >> >came with 4 logical volumes and I created a logical volume LogVol04 of >> >size >> >105GB to be used for ASM. I used iscsi initiator and detected it as >> >/dev/sdb. What am I doing wrong here. Should n't /dev/sdb1 be detected >> >by >> >asm for disks? Please advice. Many Thanks for your help. >> > >> >*Before iscsi initiator start: >> >* >> >root@sunny2 /root$ fdisk -l >> > >> >Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes >> >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders >> >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >> > >> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> >/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux >> >/dev/sda2 14 38913 312464250 8e Linux LVM >> >root@sunny2 /root$ >> > >> >*After iscsi initiator start:* >> > >> >root@sunny2 /root$ fdisk -l >> > >> >Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes >> >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders >> >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >> > >> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> >/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux >> >/dev/sda2 14 38913 312464250 8e Linux LVM >> > >> >Disk /dev/sdb: 104.8 GB, 104857600000 bytes >> >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12748 cylinders >> >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >> > >> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> >/dev/sdb1 1 12748 102398278+ 83 Linux >> >root@sunny2 /root$ >> > >> > >> >root@sunny2 /root$ ll /dev/VolGroup01/* >> >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 1 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 -> >> >/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00 >> >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 1 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 -> >> >/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol01 >> >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 1 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol02 -> >> >/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol02 >> >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 1 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol03 -> >> >/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol03 >> >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 1 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol04 -> >> >/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol04 >> >root@sunny2 /root$ >> >> > --001636458c20779e890498d58f31 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks Sreejith. You provided me with the hint and I just configured and cr= eated the asmdisk with asmlib and there it was detected. I did not know tha= t I have to configure asmlib before starting the installer. Thanks a lot.
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, sundar maha= devan <= sundarmahadevan82@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Sreejith,
Thanks for the info on grid home. Yes, I installed ASMlib b= ut are there any configurations to make the LUN as a candidate disk? So sho= uld I do it before I run the grid installer? Please confirm. Thanks.


On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Sreejith Na= ir <sreejithsna@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Sundar,
I have just started to setup 11gR2 RAC on 2 Linux boxes with 100gb. lun SAN= . With 11gR2, there are a few changes like
1. ASM,OCR and VD is part of a =A0single home called grid home.
2. Database software binaries in ORACLE_HOME.
I have just downloaded ASMlib to mark my LUN as a candidate disk,so that my= grid infrastructure installation could detect it. However I did not try th= at yet. Did you try with ASMlib?

Cheers,
SSN
-- Sreejith Nair
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

"sundar mahadevan" <sundarmahadevan82@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi All,
>Wish you all a very happy new year. I am trying to setup a 11gR2 non >RAC
>with ASM on OEL 5.4 I am having trouble setting up ASM. I have an ACER<= br> >laptop with 4GB RAM and 320 GB hard drive each. Would appreciate if you=
>could help me with the following:
>
>1) ASM is defined as a feature. So is there a file system underneath or=
>is
>it working on raw devices? I did not find a straight answer for this. >2) To setup 11gR2 RAC with ASM and 11gR2 NON RAC with ASM, am I correct=
>in
>understanding that 2 separate binaries are required on 2
>laptops/servers
>meaning there will be 4 oracle homes: 1 for ASM, 1 for RAC binary, 1 >for Non
>RAC binary, 1 for clusterware
>3) I installed a 11gR2 non rac binary successfully (just the software >no
>database). Now I am trying to install ASM with grid infrastructure
>runinstaller. My disks are not detected at this stage. The default OS >setup
>came with 4 logical volumes and I created a logical volume LogVol04 of<= br> >size
>105GB to be used for ASM. I used iscsi initiator and detected it as
>/dev/sdb. What am I doing wrong here. Should n't /dev/sdb1 be detec= ted
>by
>asm for disks? Please advice. Many Thanks for your help.
>
>*Before iscsi initiator start:
>*
>root@sunny2 /root$ fdisk -l
>
>Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
>Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 =3D 8225280 bytes
>
> =A0 Device Boot =A0 =A0 =A0Start =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 End =A0 =A0 =A0Blocks= =A0 Id =A0System
>/dev/sda1 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 1 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A013 =A0 =A0 =A0= 104391 =A0 83 =A0Linux
>/dev/sda2 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A014 =A0 =A0 =A0 38913 =A0 312464250= =A0 8e =A0Linux LVM
>root@sunny2 /root$
>
>*After iscsi initiator start:*
>
>root@sunny2 /root$ fdisk -l
>
>Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
>Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 =3D 8225280 bytes
>
> =A0 Device Boot =A0 =A0 =A0Start =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 End =A0 =A0 =A0Blocks= =A0 Id =A0System
>/dev/sda1 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 1 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A013 =A0 =A0 =A0= 104391 =A0 83 =A0Linux
>/dev/sda2 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A014 =A0 =A0 =A0 38913 =A0 312464250= =A0 8e =A0Linux LVM
>
>Disk /dev/sdb: 104.8 GB, 104857600000 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12748 cylinders
>Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 =3D 8225280 bytes
>
> =A0 Device Boot =A0 =A0 =A0Start =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 End =A0 =A0 =A0Blocks= =A0 Id =A0System
>/dev/sdb1 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 1 =A0 =A0 =A0 12748 =A0 102398278= + =A083 =A0Linux
>root@sunny2 /root$
>
>
>root@sunny2 /root$ ll /dev/VolGroup01/*
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan =A01 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 ->=
>/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan =A01 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 ->=
>/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol01
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan =A01 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol02 ->=
>/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol02
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan =A01 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol03 ->=
>/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol03
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan =A01 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol04 ->=
>/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol04
>root@sunny2 /root$



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