Reinstall Grid infrastructure ASM no cadiates.

Hi all,
we need to reinstall complete grid infrastructure.
At the point to choose the candidates for ASM to store OCS we habe only members no cadidates.
We try to low level format all LUN´s but installer still shows only member no candiates.
I witch format or how to reset theLUN´s to be a candidate not a member of the old installation.
how to change state of LUN ?
http://img.ly/images/1161043/full
Thanks
*T
Edited by: tbrinkmann on Jun 9, 2011 2:38 AM

Hi,
It is because the header of the disk still marked as ASM, you need to clean this header
run this simple command dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{your asm disk} bs=1024k count=50
Cheers
FZheng

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profile:/dev/asm*
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><gpnp:GPnP-Profile Version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.grid-pnp.org/2005/11/gpnp-profile" xmlns:gpnp="http://www.grid-pnp.org/2005/11/gpnp-profile" xmlns:orcl="http://www.oracle.com/gpnp/2005/11/gpnp-profile" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.grid-pnp.org/2005/11/gpnp-profile gpnp-profile.xsd" ProfileSequence="32" ClusterUId="58a8249042c37f94bf844767ea0ae255" ClusterName="vrh-cluster" PALocation=""><gpnp:Network-Profile><gpnp:HostNetwork id="gen" HostName="*"><gpnp:Network id="net1" IP="192.168.1.0" Adapter="eth0" Use="public"/><gpnp:Network id="net2" IP="172.168.1.0" Adapter="eth1" Use="cluster_interconnect"/></gpnp:HostNetwork></gpnp:Network-Profile><orcl:CSS-Profile id="css" DiscoveryString="+asm" LeaseDuration="400"/><orcl:ASM-Profile id="asm" DiscoveryString="/dev/asm*" SPFile="/g01/11.2.0/grid/dbs/spfile+ASM1.ora"/><ds:Signature xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"><ds:SignedInfo><ds:CanonicalizationMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#"/><ds:SignatureMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1"/><ds:Reference URI=""><ds:Transforms><ds:Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#enveloped-signature"/><ds:Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#"> <InclusiveNamespaces xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#" PrefixList="gpnp orcl xsi"/></ds:Transform></ds:Transforms><ds:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1"/><ds:DigestValue>4QgZH9s7FcMwoqnxGtKyG67K2tE=</ds:DigestValue></ds:Reference></ds:SignedInfo><ds:SignatureValue>GEUFGg6x2X4uVWDj9aBIW9pAmO/GRccSdHcrWNF1tDwsVMa8a7hdr2mKSn1k88lxzY55DgzsfGQ3h7e1ftpF/0zBLwWQMDME9msJ1wa+r6mNtin2dxOIqKZrcZAASe9/zhY24mnNeQnoCRC4at0UkgZiE6KfZdskyHSff2nC8Yo=</ds:SignatureValue></ds:Signature></gpnp:GPnP-Profile>
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## STATE    File Universal Id                File Name Disk group
1. ONLINE   85edc0e82d274f78bfc58cdc73b8c68a (/dev/asm-diskh) [SYSTEMDG]
2. ONLINE   201ffffc8ba44faabfe2efec2aa75840 (/dev/asm-diskg) [SYSTEMDG]
3. ONLINE   6f2a25c589964faabf6980f7c5f621ce (/dev/asm-diski) [SYSTEMDG]
4. ONLINE   93eb315648454f25bf3717df1a2c73d5 (/dev/asm-diskj) [SYSTEMDG]
5. ONLINE   3737240678964f88bfbfbd31d8b3829f (/dev/asm-diskk) [SYSTEMDG]
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kfdhdb.ausize:                  1048576 ; 0x0bc: 0x00100000
kfdhdb.vfstart:                     224 ; 0x0ec: 0x000000e0
kfdhdb.vfend:                       256 ; 0x0f0: 0x00000100
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33554432 bytes (34 MB) copied, 0.381144 seconds, 88.0 MB/s
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如以上测试可以看到kfdhdb.vfstart kfdhdb.vfend 记录了VOTEDISK在ASM中开始和结束位置，而AUSIZE 则为单位大小
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Copyright (c) 1991, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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Trace Level               off
Security                  ON: Local OS Authentication
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Hi Thtsang,
sorry for not coming back to you earlier and thanks for "the helpful".
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Support note ID 950200.1 - "ASM 11gR2: How To Upgrade An ASM Instance To Release 11gR2 (11.2.0.1.0)?" describes an ASM upgrade to 11.2. Maybe this note can help you and if it is only to analyze what stage your cluster is in right now. It sounds like, this would be first thing that we need to find out.
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Hello,
Can Oracle Grid Infrastructure be installed for its Oracle Restart functionality only? i.e., No ASM,; this box uses local RAID 5 filesystems only.
This is a standalone 32-bit RHEL 5 system with Oracle Database 10gR2 already installed that I intend to upgrade to 11gR2. Just experimenting with installing Grid Infrastructure for only its restart capability. There isn't anything out there I've found that addresses this other than the Oracle doc stating that the Infrastructure must be installed if I want to use ASM or Oracle Restart.
I'm currently in the installer in a Software Only installation waiting for my SysAdmin to run the root.sh script, but in looking at this script, it looks like it might try to do things with CRS, voting files and the like, which do not exist.
Thank you!
-Jon

Hi Erik,
Can Oracle Grid Infrastructure be installed for its Oracle Restart functionality only? Yes ... you can do that installing Software Only
I'm currently in the installer in a Software Only installation waiting for my SysAdmin to run the root.sh script, but in looking at this script, it looks like it might try to do things with CRS, voting files and the like, which do not exist.Don't worry about that ... at the end of the execution of the root.sh script will report a proceedings to configure only Oracle Restart.
Only this resource "ora.evmd" will appear online.
Regards,
Levi Pereira

Creating ASM after installing grid infrastructure software only option

OS environment is Solaris 10 sparc (64 bit) with suncluster 3.2. Oracle version is 11.2.0.3.0... ASM configuration also..
Grid binaries (i.e. GRID_HOME) will be placed in local disk on both the nodes. Oracle Binaries (ORACLE_HOME) also will be placed in local disk on both the nodes..Oracle database only will be placed in shared storage with ASM...
My doubt is If i select "install grid infrastructure software only" option, can i create separate ASM instance on each node by using "$GRID_HOME/dbs/initSID.ora" file of each node?
Is it possible to create two ASM instance in the clustered environment since Single instance Oracle ASM is not supported with Oracle 11g release 2 as per "Oracle® Solaris Cluster Data Service for Oracle Guide"?
Please tell me the suggestion if anyone knows........
Thanks & Regards
Ramesh M

Hi,
First of all "software only installation" only places the binaries onto the local disks. This software only binaries later have to be configured either for GI Standalone Server or GI for Cluster environment. It differs in the root.sh script to be called, and in the need to use config.sh to configure the cluster environment.
So by configuring standalone server GI later, you will only have a local ASM installation.
However you will not end up with a initSID.ora file for the ASM instance, since the spfile of the ASM instance will always be placed inside the first ASM diskgroup to be configured. (the same for GI cluster, as for GI SI).
Now creating clustered ASM and SI ASM => you can only create clustered ASM for nodes which participate in the same cluster. So if you configured both nodes with clustered GI, but did not tell them to be 1 cluster, but 2, then both ASM instances will be separate. Resulting in beeing ASM1 instance on both nodes, and not able to mount the same diskgroup (consistent of the same disks) on both servers at the same time. So in the end having 2 clusteres consisting of one node each, does not really differ much from the ASM point of view, other than having ASM1 as instance name instead of +ASM (in GI SI). The difference is in the cluster stack below ASM, which simply has more processes and requirement for the clustered GI version.
And last but not least, yes you can have separate ASM instances on 2 separate nodes. If they are not part of the same cluster, the ASM instances are independent.
They are not really single instances, since they know that they are RAC ASMs, however they do not communicate with other nodes. However you may only have one ASM instance on each host (either physical or virtual host, as you can have an ASM instance in each solaris container).
Hope that clarifies it.
Regards
Sebastian

Oracle Grid Infrastructure and ASM Tech Supprot

Considering purchase the Tech Support from Oracle for Grid Infrastructure and ASM. Is there a web site/link I can go to?

Is the tech support for ASM covered under the Oracle Database tech support package or I need a separate support package for it?

11gR2 - ACMCA needs Oracle grid infrastructure to configure ASM

Hi
I am installing single instance oracle 11gR2 on linux redhat 5
I have problem with 11gr2 ASMCA.
I successfully installed 11gR2 oracle grid home.
Than i wanted to create the ASM diskgroup using asmca
The disks was succssefully discavered , but the creatation failed on the following error messages:
Oracle Grid infrastructure is not configured properly
ACMCA needs Oracle grid infrastructure to configure ASMI think it maight be related to root.sh problem.
1. where i can find the root.sh log output ?
2. Is it "safe" to rerun the root.sh once again ?
3. Could you please suggest what to check ?
Thanks

Hi There
You need to run root.sh script once again as root user. The script can be found immediately under the GRID home
for eg:/opt/11.2.0/grid/root.sh
upon running this script it will then ask u to run another script for Standalone servers
/opt/11.2.0/grid/perl/bin/perl -I/opt/11.2.0/grid/perl/lib -I/opt/11.2.0/grid/crs/install /opt/11.2.0/grid/crs/install/roothas.pl
You need to run this again as root user
This will configure the GRID infrastructure for a Standalone env.
After this you should be able to run ASMCA without any issues
Regards
vgt

ASMCA needs Oracle Grid Infrastructure to configure ASM

Hi,
I am trying to install ASM 11gR2 on RHEL5. I am using VMWare Workstation for this.
I have already installed Oracle database software and Grid Infrastructure on this machine.While installing Grid Infrastructure, I chose install Grid Infrastructure software only.
Once this was successfull I am trying to create ASM instance using asmca.
Regarding the disks, I am using raw devices. I created a virtual disk which I have partitioned but haven't formatted it. Done this to create raw device
[root@localhost sysconfig]# /bin/raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/sdb
/dev/raw/raw1: bound to major 8, minor 16
and have added
ACTION=="add",KERNEL=="sdb",RUN+="/bin/raw /dev/raw/raw1 %N"
to /etc/udev/rules.d/60-raw.rules
Then I tried creating the disk but it failed. So I did the following steps to fix it
[root@dhcppc2 Softwares]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk VOL1 /dev/sdb
Marking disk "VOL1" as an ASM disk: [FAILED]
[oracle@oracle11gR2 grid]$ tail -f /var/log/oracleasm
Device "/dev/sdb" is not a partition
To fix this
[root@localhost ~]# /usr/sbin/asmtool -C -l /dev/oracleasm -n VOL1 -s /dev/sdb -a force=yes
asmtool: Device "/dev/sdb" is not a partition
asmtool: Continuing anyway
Now I am able to view the asmdisk through listdisks option.
Have set following environment variables before running asmca
[oracle@oracle11gR2 ~]$ export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/Grid
[oracle@oracle11gR2 ~]$ export PATH=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/Grid/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/oracle/bin
When I am running ASMCA I am facing this error - Oralce Grid Infrastrcture is not configured properly. ASMCA needs Oracle Grid Infrastructure to configure ASM
Any thoughts?

Hi Aman,
Thanks for the reply.
Is it possible to configure 11gR2 ASM on single instance databases ? I have done the config with 10g but I am struggling with the Grid Infrastructure. For eg: when I do deinstall of Grid Infrstructure
+[oracle@oracle11gR2 deinstall]$ ./deinstall -home /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/Grid+
ORACLE_HOME = /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/Grid
Location of logs /u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/logs/
+############ ORACLE DEINSTALL & DECONFIG TOOL START ############+
+######################## CHECK OPERATION START ########################+
Install check configuration START
Checking for existence of the Oracle home location /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/Grid
Oracle Home type selected for de-install is: SIHA
Oracle Base selected for de-install is: /u01/app/oracle
Checking for existence of central inventory location /u01/app/oraInventory
Checking for existence of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home
Install check configuration END
Traces log file: /u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/logs//crsdc.log
Network Configuration check config START
Network de-configuration trace file location: /u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/logs/netdc_check42401.log
Network Configuration check config END
Asm Check Configuration START
ASM de-configuration trace file location: /u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/logs/asmcadc_check42402.log
+ASM configuration was not detected in this Oracle home. Was ASM configured in this Oracle home (y|n) [n]:+
ASM was not detected in the Oracle Home
+######################### CHECK OPERATION END #########################+
+####################### CHECK OPERATION SUMMARY #######################+
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home is:
The cluster node(s) on which the Oracle home exists are: (Please input nodes seperated by ",", eg: node1,node2,...)null
Oracle Home selected for de-install is: /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/Grid
Inventory Location where the Oracle home registered is: /u01/app/oraInventory
ASM was not detected in the Oracle Home
+Do you want to continue (y - yes, n - no)? [n]: y+
A log of this session will be written to: '/u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/logs/deinstall_deconfig2010-08-07_01-31-49-PM.out'
Any error messages from this session will be written to: '/u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/logs/deinstall_deconfig2010-08-07_01-31-49-PM.err'
+######################## CLEAN OPERATION START ########################+
ASM de-configuration trace file location: /u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/logs/asmcadc_clean42403.log
ASM Clean Configuration END
Network Configuration clean config START
Network de-configuration trace file location: /u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/logs/netdc_clean42404.log
De-configuring backup files...
Backup files de-configured successfully.
The network configuration has been cleaned up successfully.
Network Configuration clean config END
---------------------------------------->
Press Enter after you finish running the above commands
+<----------------------------------------+
I don't see any commands to run but the deinstall blindly says that
"Press Enter after you finish running the above commands"
and while looking at the net I found out it might be something similar to this
/u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/perl/bin/perl -I/u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/perl/lib -I/u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/crs/install /u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/crs/install/rootcrs.pl -force -delete -paramfile /u01/Softwares/oracle11gR2/deinstall/response/deinstall_Ora11g_gridinfrahome1.rsp
Should I run the previous command as root.
Am I doing things in the right way or am I missing something here?

ASMCA needs Oracle Grid Infrastructure to configure ASM - 11gR2 on SLES11

Hi,
I'm trying to install 11gR2 with ASM on a new SLES11 Server. So far i successfully installed the Database Software but struggle now when it comes to installing the Grid Infrastructure.
Partitioning and stamping the disks as ASM disks worked fine, oracleasm listdisks would give me my disknames as output.
So far so good - in the grid infrastructure installer i chose "install and configure grid infrastructure for a standalone server"
The setup was working, i executed the root.sh script without any issues - but configuring ASMCA failed with the following error:
INFO: Read: Error while detecting Oracle Grid Infrastructure. ASMCA needs Oracle Grid Infrastructure to configure ASM.
Unfortunately i couldn't find a lot about it on the internet - i'm very stuck here..
Any ideas?
Andrea

i used raw devices in my first attempt - but read that it's not supported anymore - so i configured them as asm disks using the oracleasm tool.
which worked.. so the disks can not be the problem
i already read amans solution before posting here - but the problem in that thread was different - the guy installed the grid infrastructure software only and then tried to manually configure it, which failed.
His solution was to delete his previous install and choose '+Install and Configure Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server+' in the installer.
I already started my installation with Install and Configure Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server ... so that's no solution either :(

Reinstall Grid infrastructure ASM no cadiates.

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