UEK2 and ASM/ACFS shouldn't be so difficult

We are running Oracle 11g Grid Infrastructure (GI) on Oracle Linux 5 x86_64. To pass security audits, we must apply the latest patches every quarter. This includes both Oracle Linux patches and Oracle database patches. Linux patches and Oracle database patches are applied in the same maintenance window.
We utilize the ACFS feature of 11g GI. ACFS requires a kernel module to match the installed kernel so we must carefully choose our kernel to match what ACFS supports. It has been 10 months since the release of UEK2 and yet the January GI PSU (GI 11.2.0.3.5 PSU Patch 14727347), still does not include support for UEK2. Lenz Grimmer stated a nine month grace period for UEK on Oracle's Linux Blog dated Mar 13 2012. Here is the quote.
+"Now that the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 has been released, we will continue to provide support for Release 1 of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (2.6.32) in the form of critical bug fixes and security errata for another 9 months. However, new hardware enablement (e.g. by providing device driver updates) will now only be made available through the quarterly updates of Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 on the Unbreakable Linux Network. During this grace period, we encourage all customers to switch to Release 2."+
I have reviewed My Oracle Support article ID 1369107.1 - ACFS Supported On OS Platforms.
It looks like the only way to run ACFS on UEK2 is to utilize the October GI PSU (14275572) and then apply Patch 12983005 on top of it to get UEK2 support.
I don't want to be a quarter behind on my patch levels and also have an extra patch to apply just because I want to use ACFS with UEK2. Ultimately I just want to run yum update along with the latest database PSU once a quarter.
What is the best way to express my dissatisfaction with this scenario and encourage the database team to start supporting UEK2 directly via the GI PSU quarterly process?

Thanks Avi. I've re-posted in the High Availability » Automatic Storage Management forum.
UEK2 and ASM/ACFS shouldn't be so difficult
Edited by: rukbat on Feb 2, 2013 5:09 AM
Link to that new thread added by moderator.
That helps future readers follow the topic "wherever it may travel".

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http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16338_01/server.112/e10500/asmfilesystem.htm
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Oracle has thrown in all sorts of nonsensical verbiage to completely confuse everyone as to how you can us e ACFS. You can use it for "database-related" stuff but you can't use it for data files, archivelog files, backup files. You can store exports because if you do a parallel expdp the export file(s) must be visible to the entire cluster. Which **I think** is to be interpreted that you cannot store "application" files that are required to be accessible by your applications. I surmise that the reason for this is that Oracle decided they could make more $$$ by releasing a "product" called CloudFS. CloudFS **is** ASM/ACFS - and nothing more. So, on your Weblogic clustered middle-tier you can use Cloudfs to store your application data files.
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writes output files to another shared directory.
In the past, you would provide a "share" by using NFS. Well, as it turns out - really bad things can happen when when one of the nodes processing and not receiving the files dies, you can have files get "lost" if that NFS share dies.
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Hi,
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961272 wrote:
Hi,
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Oracle RAC and ASM for SAP in SLES

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Read this below Oracle Note:
ACFS not supported on certain platforms [ID 1075058.1]
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[client(14083)]CRS-10001:ADVM/ACFS is not supported on SUSE
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I am not able to bring the database up.
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That is wre the confusion is: I coud nt find it under O_H/dbs,
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Solaris 10 and Hitachi LUN mapping with Oracle 10g RAC and ASM?

Hi all,
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HI
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user10394804 wrote:
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Oracle restart and ASM

Hi,
I have noticed following 'strange' behaviour of Oracle Restart and ASM.
starting position:
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Local Resources
ora.DATA.dg
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ora.LISTENERASM.lsnr
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ora.asm
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Cluster Resources
ora.cssd
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ora.diskmon
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-bash-3.2 $ srvctl disable diskgroup -g datastep 2:
via sqlplus start ASM instance
SQL> startup
ASM instance started
Total System Global Area 283930624 bytes
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Variable Size             256552144 bytes
ASM Cache                  25165824 bytes
ASM diskgroups mounted
ASM diskgroups volume enabled
SQL> select * from v$asm_diskgroup;
GROUP_NUMBER NAME                           SECTOR_SIZE BLOCK_SIZE
ALLOCATION_UNIT_SIZE STATE       TYPE     TOTAL_MB    FREE_MB HOT_USED_MB
COLD_USED_MB REQUIRED_MIRROR_FREE_MB USABLE_FILE_MB OFFLINE_DISKS
COMPATIBILITY
DATABASE_COMPATIBILITY                                       V
           1 DATA                                   512       4096
             1048576 MOUNTED     EXTERN      10236      10177           0
          59                       0          10177             0
GROUP_NUMBER NAME                           SECTOR_SIZE BLOCK_SIZE
ALLOCATION_UNIT_SIZE STATE       TYPE     TOTAL_MB    FREE_MB HOT_USED_MB
COLD_USED_MB REQUIRED_MIRROR_FREE_MB USABLE_FILE_MB OFFLINE_DISKS
COMPATIBILITY
DATABASE_COMPATIBILITY                                       V
11.2.0.0.0
10.1.0.0.0                                                   N
-bash-3.2 $ crsctl status resource -t
NAME           TARGET STATE        SERVER                   STATE_DETAILS
Local Resources
ora.DATA.dg
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ora.LISTENERASM.lsnr
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ora.asm
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Cluster Resources
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ora.diskmon
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Anyone had similar experience?
thanks,
goran

Hi,
asm resource is depending on diskgroup resource ... if diskgroup res. is not available, crsctl status shows offline, I would expect asm should be also shown as 'offline' (and brought offline) as they are dependent.
What is the point of managing resources via srvctl when it doesn't take care of dependencies? For me it's wrong.ora.asm : is ASM Instance
ora.*.dg : is Diskgroup
ora.*.dg is dependent of ora.asm, not to the contrary.
I can have more than one diskgroup and want only one diskgroup disabled, so I need the ASM Instance (ora.asm) online.
Important:
If you shut down the database with SQL*Plus, Oracle Restart does not interpret this as a database failure and does not attempt to restart the database.
Similarly, if you shut down the Oracle ASM instance with SQL*Plus or ASMCMD, Oracle Restart does not attempt to restart it.
An important difference between starting a component with SRVCTL and starting it with SQL*Plus (or another utility) is the following:
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ora....SM1.asm     application     ONLINE     UNKNOWN     rac
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ora.rac.gsd     application     ONLINE     UNKNOWN     rac
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ora.rac2.ons     application     ONLINE     UNKNOWN     rac2
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Normally all services will start automatically, I am not sure how you installed and configured your RAC.
Here i am giving all options.
Option1:-
Re: CRS auto-start
Option2:-
See the below links.
http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-startup-rac-database-services.html
http://www.dannorris.com/2009/03/12/start-database-services-automatically-after-instance-startup/
Option3:-
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RAC and ASM issue

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Thu Mar 24 07:05:11 2011
LMD0 (ospid: 32493) has not called a wait for 94 secs.
GES: System Load is HIGH.
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Thu Mar 24 07:06:32 2011
LMD0 (ospid: 32493) has not called a wait for 174 secs.
GES: System Load is HIGH.
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+Trace dumping is performing id=[cdmp_20110324070635]+
Thu Mar 24 07:07:49 2011
+Trace dumping is performing id=[cdmp_20110324070635]+
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Waiting for clusterware split-brain resolution
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ORA-29740: evicted by member 1, group incarnation 120
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LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
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LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
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System parameters with non-default values:
large_pool_size          = 12M
instance_type            = "asm"
cluster_database         = TRUE
instance_number          = 1
asm_diskstring           = "ORCL:*"
asm_diskgroups           = "REDO01"
asm_diskgroups           = "REDO02"
asm_diskgroups           = "DATA"
asm_diskgroups           = "RECOVERY"
diagnostic_dest          = "/u01/app/oracle"
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+172.20.223.25+
cluster interconnect IPC version:Oracle UDP/IP (generic)
IPC Vendor 1 proto 2
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Thu Mar 24 07:18:38 2011
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ASM instance
List of nodes:
+0 1 2+
Global Resource Directory frozen
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Communication channels reestablished
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* allocate domain 2, invalid = TRUE
* allocate domain 3, invalid = TRUE
* allocate domain 4, invalid = TRUE
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* domain 1 valid = 1 according to instance 1
* domain 2 valid = 1 according to instance 1
* domain 3 valid = 1 according to instance 1
* domain 4 valid = 1 according to instance 1
Master broadcasted resource hash value bitmaps
Non-local Process blocks cleaned out
LMS 0: 0 GCS shadows cancelled, 0 closed, 0 Xw survived
Set master node info
Submitted all remote-enqueue requests
Dwn-cvts replayed, VALBLKs dubious
All grantable enqueues granted
LMS 0: 0 GCS shadows traversed, 0 replayed
Submitted all GCS remote-cache requests
Post SMON to start 1st pass IR
Fix write in gcs resources
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Thu Mar 24 07:18:40 2011
LCK0 started with pid=18, OS id=23277
ORACLE_BASE from environment = /u01/app/oracle
Thu Mar 24 07:18:41 2011
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NOTE: cache began mount (not first) of group DATA number=1 incarn=0xf7063e39
NOTE: cache registered group RECOVERY number=2 incarn=0xf7063e3a
NOTE: cache began mount (not first) of group RECOVERY number=2 incarn=0xf7063e3a
NOTE: cache registered group REDO01 number=3 incarn=0xf7163e3b
NOTE: cache began mount (not first) of group REDO01 number=3 incarn=0xf7163e3b
NOTE: cache registered group REDO02 number=4 incarn=0xf7163e3c
NOTE: cache began mount (not first) of group REDO02 number=4 incarn=0xf7163e3c
NOTE:Loaded lib: /opt/oracle/extapi/32/asm/orcl/1/libasm.so
NOTE: Assigning number (1,0) to disk (ORCL:ASM_DATA1)
NOTE: Assigning number (1,1) to disk (ORCL:ASM_DATA2)
NOTE: Assigning number (2,0) to disk (ORCL:ASM_RECO1)
NOTE: Assigning number (3,0) to disk (ORCL:ASM_LOG1)
NOTE: Assigning number (4,0) to disk (ORCL:ASM_LOG2)
kfdp_query(): 5
kfdp_queryBg(): 5
NOTE: cache opening disk 0 of grp 1: DATA1 label:ASM_DATA1
NOTE: F1X0 found on disk 0 fcn 0.0
NOTE: cache opening disk 1 of grp 1: DATA2 label:ASM_DATA2
NOTE: cache mounting (not first) group 1/0xF7063E39 (DATA)
kjbdomatt send to node 1
kjbdomatt send to node 2
NOTE: attached to recovery domain 1
NOTE: LGWR attempting to mount thread 1 for diskgroup 1
NOTE: LGWR mounted thread 1 for disk group 1
NOTE: opening chunk 1 at fcn 0.10794571 ABA
NOTE: seq=81 blk=1313
NOTE: cache mounting group 1/0xF7063E39 (DATA) succeeded
NOTE: cache ending mount (success) of group DATA number=1 incarn=0xf7063e39
kfdp_query(): 6
kfdp_queryBg(): 6
NOTE: cache opening disk 0 of grp 2: RECO1 label:ASM_RECO1
NOTE: F1X0 found on disk 0 fcn 0.0
NOTE: cache mounting (not first) group 2/0xF7063E3A (RECOVERY)
kjbdomatt send to node 1
kjbdomatt send to node 2
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NOTE: LGWR attempting to mount thread 1 for diskgroup 2
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NOTE: opening chunk 1 at fcn 0.10436377 ABA
NOTE: seq=48 blk=4298
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NOTE: cache ending mount (success) of group RECOVERY number=2 incarn=0xf7063e3a
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kfdp_queryBg(): 7
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NOTE: F1X0 found on disk 0 fcn 0.0
NOTE: cache mounting (not first) group 3/0xF7163E3B (REDO01)
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NOTE: seq=30 blk=10690
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NOTE: opening chunk 1 at fcn 0.225880 ABA
NOTE: seq=30 blk=10556
NOTE: cache mounting group 4/0xF7163E3C (REDO02) succeeded
NOTE: cache ending mount (success) of group REDO02 number=4 incarn=0xf7163e3c
kfdp_query(): 9
kfdp_queryBg(): 9
NOTE: Instance updated compatible.asm to 10.1.0.0.0 for grp 1
SUCCESS: diskgroup DATA was mounted
kfdp_query(): 10
kfdp_queryBg(): 10
NOTE: Instance updated compatible.asm to 10.1.0.0.0 for grp 2
SUCCESS: diskgroup RECOVERY was mounted
kfdp_query(): 11
kfdp_queryBg(): 11
NOTE: Instance updated compatible.asm to 10.1.0.0.0 for grp 3
SUCCESS: diskgroup REDO01 was mounted
kfdp_query(): 12
kfdp_queryBg(): 12
NOTE: Instance updated compatible.asm to 10.1.0.0.0 for grp 4
SUCCESS: diskgroup REDO02 was mounted
SUCCESS: ALTER DISKGROUP ALL MOUNT
Thu Mar 24 08:26:28 2011
Starting background process ASMB
Thu Mar 24 08:26:28 2011
ASMB started with pid=20, OS id=9597
NOTE: ASMB process exiting due to lack of ASM file activity for 5 seconds
Thu Mar 24 08:27:39 2011
Starting background process ASMB
Thu Mar 24 08:27:39 2011
ASMB started with pid=25, OS id=10735
NOTE: ASMB process exiting due to lack of ASM file activity for 5 seconds
+[oracle@qa1crmrac1 trace]$ tail -1500 alert_ASM1.log
Thu Mar 24 07:05:11 2011
LMD0 (ospid: 32493) has not called a wait for 94 secs.
GES: System Load is HIGH.
GES: Current load is 55.87 and high load threshold is 20.00
Thu Mar 24 07:06:32 2011
LMD0 (ospid: 32493) has not called a wait for 174 secs.
GES: System Load is HIGH.
GES: Current load is 71.23 and high load threshold is 20.00
Thu Mar 24 07:06:36 2011
+Trace dumping is performing id=[cdmp_20110324070635]+
Thu Mar 24 07:07:49 2011
+Trace dumping is performing id=[cdmp_20110324070635]+
Thu Mar 24 07:08:16 2011
Waiting for clusterware split-brain resolution
Thu Mar 24 07:18:17 2011
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/asm/asm/+ASM1/trace/+ASM1_lmon_32484.trc (incident=60073):+
ORA-29740: evicted by member 1, group incarnation 120
Incident details in: /u01/app/oracle/diag/asm/asm/+ASM1/incident/incdir_60073/+ASM1_lmon_32484_i60073.trc+
Thu Mar 24 07:18:19 2011
+Trace dumping is performing id=[cdmp_20110324071819]+
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/asm/asm/+ASM1/trace/+ASM1_lmon_32484.trc:+
ORA-29740: evicted by member 1, group incarnation 120
LMON (ospid: 32484): terminating the instance due to error 29740
System state dump is made for local instance
System State dumped to trace file /u01/app/oracle/diag/asm/asm/+ASM1/trace/+ASM1_diag_32459.trc+
+Trace dumping is performing id=[cdmp_20110324071820]+
Instance terminated by LMON, pid = 32484
Thu Mar 24 07:18:31 2011
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
Interface type 1 eth1 172.20.223.0 configured from OCR for use as a cluster interconnect
Interface type 1 eth0 172.20.222.0 configured from OCR for use as a public interface
Picked latch-free SCN scheme 2
Using LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 parameter default value as /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/asm_1/dbs/arch
Autotune of undo retention is turned on.
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 11.1.0.7.0.
Using parameter settings in server-side pfile /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/asm_1/dbs/initASM1.ora+
System parameters with non-default values:
large_pool_size          = 12M
instance_type            = "asm"
cluster_database         = TRUE
instance_number          = 1
asm_diskstring           = "ORCL:*"
asm_diskgroups           = "REDO01"
asm_diskgroups           = "REDO02"
asm_diskgroups           = "DATA"
asm_diskgroups           = "RECOVERY"
diagnostic_dest          = "/u01/app/oracle"
Cluster communication is configured to use the following interface(s) for this instance
+172.20.223.25+
cluster interconnect IPC version:Oracle UDP/IP (generic)
IPC Vendor 1 proto 2
Thu Mar 24 07:18:36 2011
PMON started with pid=2, OS id=23120
Thu Mar 24 07:18:36 2011
VKTM started with pid=3, OS id=23123 at elevated priority
VKTM running at (20)ms precision
Thu Mar 24 07:18:36 2011
DIAG started with pid=4, OS id=23127
Thu Mar 24 07:18:37 2011
PING started with pid=5, OS id=23129
Thu Mar 24 07:18:37 2011
PSP0 started with pid=6, OS id=23131
Thu Mar 24 07:18:37 2011
DIA0 started with pid=7, OS id=23133
Thu Mar 24 07:18:37 2011
LMON started with pid=8, OS id=23135
Thu Mar 24 07:18:37 2011
LMD0 started with pid=9, OS id=23137
Thu Mar 24 07:18:37 2011
LMS0 started with pid=10, OS id=23148 at elevated priority
Thu Mar 24 07:18:37 2011
MMAN started with pid=11, OS id=23152
Thu Mar 24 07:18:38 2011
DBW0 started with pid=12, OS id=23170
Thu Mar 24 07:18:38 2011
LGWR started with pid=13, OS id=23176
Thu Mar 24 07:18:38 2011
CKPT started with pid=14, OS id=23218
Thu Mar 24 07:18:38 2011
SMON started with pid=15, OS id=23224
Thu Mar 24 07:18:38 2011
RBAL started with pid=16, OS id=23237
Thu Mar 24 07:18:38 2011
GMON started with pid=17, OS id=23239
lmon registered with NM - instance id 1 (internal mem no 0)
Reconfiguration started (old inc 0, new inc 124)
ASM instance
List of nodes:
+0 1 2+
Global Resource Directory frozen
* allocate domain 0, invalid = TRUE
Communication channels reestablished
* allocate domain 1, invalid = TRUE
* allocate domain 2, invalid = TRUE
* allocate domain 3, invalid = TRUE
* allocate domain 4, invalid = TRUE
* domain 0 valid = 1 according to instance 1
* domain 1 valid = 1 according to instance 1
* domain 2 valid = 1 according to instance 1
* domain 3 valid = 1 according to instance 1
* domain 4 valid = 1 according to instance 1
Master broadcasted resource hash value bitmaps
Non-local Process blocks cleaned out
LMS 0: 0 GCS shadows cancelled, 0 closed, 0 Xw survived
Set master node info
Submitted all remote-enqueue requests
Dwn-cvts replayed, VALBLKs dubious
All grantable enqueues granted
LMS 0: 0 GCS shadows traversed, 0 replayed
Submitted all GCS remote-cache requests
Post SMON to start 1st pass IR
Fix write in gcs resources
Reconfiguration complete
Thu Mar 24 07:18:40 2011
LCK0 started with pid=18, OS id=23277
ORACLE_BASE from environment = /u01/app/oracle
Thu Mar 24 07:18:41 2011
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP ALL MOUNT
NOTE: cache registered group DATA number=1 incarn=0xf7063e39
NOTE: cache began mount (not first) of group DATA number=1 incarn=0xf7063e39
NOTE: cache registered group RECOVERY number=2 incarn=0xf7063e3a
NOTE: cache began mount (not first) of group RECOVERY number=2 incarn=0xf7063e3a
NOTE: cache registered group REDO01 number=3 incarn=0xf7163e3b
NOTE: cache began mount (not first) of group REDO01 number=3 incarn=0xf7163e3b
NOTE: cache registered group REDO02 number=4 incarn=0xf7163e3c
NOTE: cache began mount (not first) of group REDO02 number=4 incarn=0xf7163e3c
NOTE:Loaded lib: /opt/oracle/extapi/32/asm/orcl/1/libasm.so
NOTE: Assigning number (1,0) to disk (ORCL:ASM_DATA1)
NOTE: Assigning number (1,1) to disk (ORCL:ASM_DATA2)
NOTE: Assigning number (2,0) to disk (ORCL:ASM_RECO1)
NOTE: Assigning number (3,0) to disk (ORCL:ASM_LOG1)
NOTE: Assigning number (4,0) to disk (ORCL:ASM_LOG2)
kfdp_query(): 5
kfdp_queryBg(): 5
NOTE: cache opening disk 0 of grp 1: DATA1 label:ASM_DATA1
NOTE: F1X0 found on disk 0 fcn 0.0
NOTE: cache opening disk 1 of grp 1: DATA2 label:ASM_DATA2
NOTE: cache mounting (not first) group 1/0xF7063E39 (DATA)
kjbdomatt send to node 1
kjbdomatt send to node 2
NOTE: attached to recovery domain 1
NOTE: LGWR attempting to mount thread 1 for diskgroup 1
NOTE: LGWR mounted thread 1 for disk group 1
NOTE: opening chunk 1 at fcn 0.10794571 ABA
NOTE: seq=81 blk=1313
NOTE: cache mounting group 1/0xF7063E39 (DATA) succeeded
NOTE: cache ending mount (success) of group DATA number=1 incarn=0xf7063e39
kfdp_query(): 6
kfdp_queryBg(): 6
NOTE: cache opening disk 0 of grp 2: RECO1 label:ASM_RECO1
NOTE: F1X0 found on disk 0 fcn 0.0
NOTE: cache mounting (not first) group 2/0xF7063E3A (RECOVERY)
kjbdomatt send to node 1
kjbdomatt send to node 2
NOTE: attached to recovery domain 2
NOTE: LGWR attempting to mount thread 1 for diskgroup 2
NOTE: LGWR mounted thread 1 for disk group 2
NOTE: opening chunk 1 at fcn 0.10436377 ABA
NOTE: seq=48 blk=4298
NOTE: cache mounting group 2/0xF7063E3A (RECOVERY) succeeded
NOTE: cache ending mount (success) of group RECOVERY number=2 incarn=0xf7063e3a
kfdp_query(): 7
kfdp_queryBg(): 7
NOTE: cache opening disk 0 of grp 3: LOG1 label:ASM_LOG1
NOTE: F1X0 found on disk 0 fcn 0.0
NOTE: cache mounting (not first) group 3/0xF7163E3B (REDO01)
kjbdomatt send to node 1
kjbdomatt send to node 2
NOTE: attached to recovery domain 3
NOTE: LGWR attempting to mount thread 1 for diskgroup 3
NOTE: LGWR mounted thread 1 for disk group 3
NOTE: opening chunk 1 at fcn 0.229332 ABA
NOTE: seq=30 blk=10690
NOTE: cache mounting group 3/0xF7163E3B (REDO01) succeeded
NOTE: cache ending mount (success) of group REDO01 number=3 incarn=0xf7163e3b
kfdp_query(): 8
kfdp_queryBg(): 8
NOTE: cache opening disk 0 of grp 4: LOG2 label:ASM_LOG2
NOTE: F1X0 found on disk 0 fcn 0.0
NOTE: cache mounting (not first) group 4/0xF7163E3C (REDO02)
kjbdomatt send to node 1
kjbdomatt send to node 2
NOTE: attached to recovery domain 4
NOTE: LGWR attempting to mount thread 1 for diskgroup 4
NOTE: LGWR mounted thread 1 for disk group 4
NOTE: opening chunk 1 at fcn 0.225880 ABA
NOTE: seq=30 blk=10556
NOTE: cache mounting group 4/0xF7163E3C (REDO02) succeeded
NOTE: cache ending mount (success) of group REDO02 number=4 incarn=0xf7163e3c
kfdp_query(): 9
kfdp_queryBg(): 9
NOTE: Instance updated compatible.asm to 10.1.0.0.0 for grp 1
SUCCESS: diskgroup DATA was mounted
kfdp_query(): 10
kfdp_queryBg(): 10
NOTE: Instance updated compatible.asm to 10.1.0.0.0 for grp 2
SUCCESS: diskgroup RECOVERY was mounted
kfdp_query(): 11
kfdp_queryBg(): 11
NOTE: Instance updated compatible.asm to 10.1.0.0.0 for grp 3
SUCCESS: diskgroup REDO01 was mounted
kfdp_query(): 12
kfdp_queryBg(): 12
NOTE: Instance updated compatible.asm to 10.1.0.0.0 for grp 4
SUCCESS: diskgroup REDO02 was mounted
SUCCESS: ALTER DISKGROUP ALL MOUNT
Thu Mar 24 08:26:28 2011
Starting background process ASMB
Thu Mar 24 08:26:28 2011
ASMB started with pid=20, OS id=9597
NOTE: ASMB process exiting due to lack of ASM file activity for 5 seconds
Thu Mar 24 08:27:39 2011
Starting background process ASMB
Thu Mar 24 08:27:39 2011
ASMB started with pid=25, OS id=10735
NOTE: ASMB process exiting due to lack of ASM file activity for 5 seconds
Do i need to set the compatible parameter?
Regards,
Vish

It looks to me like your server is absolutely buried, and ASM may just be an innocent bystander. What is going on in the database when this happens? Also, run sar samples at 30 second intervals up to when this happens to see what is happening. It's overhead, but you need to find what is causing the problem with the server(s).
Are you swapping?

Patching Strategy for CRS and ASM homes

I'm fairly new to RAC/ASM and haven't performed any patch set upgrades yet. Back in the simple days when I wanted to apply a patch set to a database, say from 10.2.0.4 to 10.2.0.5, I would create a brand new Oracle home ahead of time and apply the patch set to it. I'd name my homes like this:
/opt/oracle/product/10.2.0.4/db1
/opt/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db1
During the maintenance window I would change /etc/oratab to point the database to the new 10.2.0.5 and complete the database upgrade scripts. The advantages of this strategy:
1 - Less risk installing software as nothing uses the new home yet. If something goes wrong in the install, no big deal. Research the problem and try again without being under the stress of a defined maintenance window.
2 - No need to backup old home for back-out purposes.
3 - Less time required for database to be down during actual patch window since Oracle Installer does not need to run.
Now with CRS and ASM, is there a way to pre-stage a new home for those, but not have them "active" to the node until later during the maintenance window?
For ASM, it seems like it would be possible to treat the same way as database and simply update ASM SID in /etc/oratab
+ASM1:/opt/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/asm1
but I'm not totally confident in that as I'm afraid the CRS home may already have references to the ASM home in the cluster registry.
For CRS, it seems like the home is pretty well hard-wired into the node startup scripts and installing a brand new CRS home will probably disrupt the running CRS home.
Any thoughts about this?

Hi,
user5448593 wrote:
I'm fairly new to RAC/ASM and haven't performed any patch set upgrades yet. Back in the simple days when I wanted to apply a patch set to a database, say from 10.2.0.4 to 10.2.0.5, I would create a brand new Oracle home ahead of time and apply the patch set to it.
Now with CRS and ASM, is there a way to pre-stage a new home for those, but not have them "active" to the node until later during the maintenance window?Although you have not mentioned the version you are actually on, it is a quite up-to-date question and dilemma.
Starting with 11.2 for Grid Infrastructure only "out-of-place" patchset upgrades are supported.
>
For ASM, it seems like it would be possible to treat the same way as database and simply update ASM SID in /etc/oratab
+ASM1:/opt/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/asm1
but I'm not totally confident in that as I'm afraid the CRS home may already have references to the ASM home in the cluster registry.
For CRS, it seems like the home is pretty well hard-wired into the node startup scripts and installing a brand new CRS home will probably disrupt the running CRS home.
Any thoughts about this?As of 11gR2 the ASM is part of the Grid Infrastructure, therefore it is running from the same home and not recommended to separate them. (although you can do that)
By the way, what is your upgrade path? It could be easier to answer your questions if we knew that as there has been a quite a few enhancements and changes in the upgrade/patching process from 10g to 11g. (even between 11gR1 and 11gR2)
Regards,
Jozsef

Clone multi-node RAC and ASM to single node

Hi everyone.
I need clone system with 3 application server and 2 oracle database RAC and ASM to single-node. The operating system is RHEL 5.
I see some metalink notes, but we can't found nothing. I find notes with multi-node to single-node, but nothing with RAC to non-RAC.
The eBS version is 11.5.10.2 and database version is 10.2.0.3
Is possible this clone?
Thanks very much.

Hi User;
Please follow below and see its helpful:
EBS R12 with RAC and non-RAC
Re: RAC to single instance ebs R12
Re: Clone Oracle Apps 11.5.10.2 RacDB to Non-RAC DB
Re: CLONING R12 RAC to NON RAC CLONING giving error RMAN-05517 temporary file
[b]Migrating the DB-Tier (DB and CM) to Two node non RAC cluster[/b]
Also check:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/chan_sing2rac_install.html
Regard
Helios

Backup and Restore OCR,Voting Disk and ASM Disks in new SAN-10g RAC

Dear Friends,
I am using 10g R2 RAC serup on Linux
My OCR,Voting Disk and ASM Disk for DBF Files are on a SAN box
Now i am reorganising SAN by scrapping the entire SAN and cretaing new LUN's (It's a must)
so pleae let me know
1) how do i take backup of OCR and Voting Disk from existing SAN and how do i restore it in new LUN's after SAN reorganisation
2) how do i take backup of existing Database's from existing SAN and how do i restore it in new LUN's after SAN reorganisation.
I will be doing it in Planned downtime only
Regards,
DB

For step 1 you should following metalink doc.
For step 2 here is simple backup command script.
I have done this in windows for you.
D:\app\ranjit\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\BIN>rman target /
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Feb 8 21:48:47 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: ORCL (DBID=1299593730)
RMAN> run
+{+
allocate channel c1 device type disk format 'D:\app\ranjit\rman\%U';
allocate channel c2 device type disk format 'D:\app\ranjit\rman\%U';
backup database;
backup current controlfile format 'D:\app\ranjit\rman\%U';
+}+
Regards

Guidelines for SGA and PGA tuning for 10gR2 RAC and ASM ?

I am looking for tuning information on SGA and PGA tuning for Oracle 10g (10.2) RAC and ASM for a 4TB OLTP and DSS mixed environment on Solaris 10 platform.

We are running Solaris 10 SPARC 64 bit with Oracle 10gR2 RAC Enterprise Edition and ASM on Sun servers with 32GB of RAM for memory for a 4TB OLTP database.
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