Re: Disks not detected during ASM setup 11gR2

ASM can also be created without asmlib also. The disks needs to be under oracle ownership for this.
Run the following query to know whether the newly added disks are visible to oracle or not?

select path from v$asm_disk

If the path shows the new disks' complete path, then the disk is visible to oracle and can be added.

With Regards,
Saurabh Sood
www.askdba.org/weblog

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:05 AM, sundar mahadevan < sundarmahadevan82_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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_at_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 <sreejithsna_at_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 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" <sundarmahadevan82_at_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
>>> >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_at_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_at_sunny2 /root$
>>> >
>>> >*After iscsi initiator start:*
>>> >
>>> >root_at_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_at_sunny2 /root$
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >root_at_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_at_sunny2 /root$
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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ORA-DBA

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