New disk in ASM
Hi,
on 10g R2 ,Unix HP and ASM 10.2
a new filesystem would be added by system (Unix administrator) what should I do as DBA to :
-see it in ASM ?
-be able to create datafiles on it ?
Thank you.
Hi,
First you will have to find the new disk with fdisk -l
then you will have to create a partition, if not already done
fdisk /dev/<your_disk>Use oracleasm to create a disk and scan for the disk on the other nodes
oracleasm createdisk <DISKNAME> /dev/<your_disk>
oracleasm scandisksto make sure the disk exist you can use
oracleasm listdisksLog into ASM with sqlplus and run
alter diskgroup <your_diskgroup_name> ADD DISK '/dev/<your_disk>';you can look at "http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b31107/asmdiskgrps.htm#CHDBIFGA" for more info on how to admin ASM diskgroups.
Regards.
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Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Feb 8 21:48:47 2012
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2> ;
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output file name=+RECO_DM01/emerald/controlfile/cntrl02.dbf
output file name=+DATA_DM01/emerald/controlfile/cntrl03.dbf
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N cntrl01.dbf => +DATA_DM01/APSPROD/CONTROLFILE/current.3678.843826699
N cntrl03.dbf => +DATA_DM01/APSPROD/CONTROLFILE/current.3679.843826701
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CONTROLFILE HIGH FINE APR 02 12:00:00 Y current.3678.843826699
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Type Redund Striped Time Sys Name
N cntrl01.dbf => +DATA_DM01/APSPROD/CONTROLFILE/current.3679.843828927
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Type Redund Striped Time Sys Name
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0 root wm 0 - 12865 62.43GB (12866/0/0) 130924416
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4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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4 unassigned wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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Please be sure to invoke installboot(1M) to make 'c1t1d0s0' bootable.
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scrub: resilver in progress for 0h0m, 0.40% done, 0h58m to go
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- best practises require that also online redolog files are in a separate diskgroup, in case of ASM logical corruption (we are a little bit paranoid): in case DATA dg gets corrupted, you can restore Full backup plus Archived RedoLog plus Online Redolog (otherwise you will stop at the latest Archived).
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Oracle aswers were a litlle bit odd:
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client sessions without causing a reconnect (for SELECTs only, not in case of a running transaction), but we already have a few fail-over cluster, we cannot change them all
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Thanks Marko for pointing us to OCFS2 pros / cons.
We asked Oracle a confirmation that it supported, they said yes but it is discouraged (and also, doesn't work with OUI nor ASMCA).
Anyway that's the simplest approach, this is a non-Prod cluster, we'll start here and if everthing is fine, after a while we'll do it also on Prod ones.
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-"Grid Infrastructure Install on Linux", paragraph 3.1.6, Table 3-2
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Restore Files & App's From Damaged Start-Up Disk (10.4) to New Disk (10.5)
I appreciate any help all of you can give me. This is kind of a weird one, so I'll try and be brief. I have a G5 that had problems with a malfunctioning start-up disk. I purchased a new hard drive and went to install 10.4 and found that it was an upgrade disk, not an original install disk. As the computer had a former owner, I originally purchased it and all of its software from him but evidently I only got the 10.4 Upgrade disk from him, not the full install. I have since purchased Leopard and installed it on the new start-up disk. Diskwarrior and Disk Utility will both allow me to open my old disk in a read-only manner, but I'm wondering now if there is an easy way to move all of my app's, files, email's, etc. over to the new disk.
I did partition the disk so that I could make an image and copy over the old disk to the new partitioned volume, but since it would then have a copy of 10.4 on it will this cause issues with my start-up volume running 10.5? Will my app's run alright under Leopard? What about running the files from that disk? Also since I had directory issues, I'm worried that by making an image and copying to the new one I may create more issues (Diskwarrior would not replace the old directory due to a disk malfunction).
I could reinstall most of the app's (include Final Cut Studio, Adobe After Affects, etc.) but I'm just not looking forward to going through each one individually. Also, is there an easy way to copy over my user files (doc's, email's, etc.) from that old drive?
The biggest thing is I just don't want to screw up the new drive and install. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!Did you do the Super Duper clone before you tried to reinstall the OS? If so, the original install disc is likely earlier than 10.4.11, and that may be why you are getting the message.
When trying to reinstall the OS, did you select the "Archive and Install" option? If not, you might try that. Here's a link that might help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1103.html
Good luck!
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