ASMLib Installation and Configuration

Overview

Use the below steps to preconfigure your system for ASM. To determine what drivers you need to download go to the Oracle yum repository.

The oracleasm kernel driver is built into the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux 7 and does not need to be installed manually.

• SELINUX must be disabled to update the ASMLib.
• Redhat ASMLib info.
• Oracle's ASMLib page.

Installation

1. Get your Linux OS kernel info.
   uname -r
   Ex: 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64

   The next steps use this value: 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64

2. Find the latest drivers on the Oracle yum Repository
   Search on: oracleasm
   oracleasm-support -> oracleasm-support-2.1.8-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
                     -> kmod-oracleasm-2.0.8-15.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

3. wget the ASMLib RPMs (as grid user)
     mkdir /u01/orasw/rpm
     cd /u01/orasw/rpm
     wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/getPackage/kmod-oracleasm-2.0.8-15.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
     wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/getPackage/oracleasm-support-2.1.8-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
     wget http://download.oracle.com/otn_software/asmlib/oracleasmlib-2.0.12-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

4. Install rpms (as root)
    cd /u01/orasw/rpm
    rpm -ivh kmod-oracleasm-2.0.8-15.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
    rpm -ivh oracleasm-support-2.1.8-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
    rpm -ivh oracleasmlib-2.0.12-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

5. Update Driver (as root)
   /etc/init.d/oracleasm update-driver

   Updating to the latest Oracle ASMLib driver:     [  OK  ]

6. # oracleasm init

Perform oracleasm Configuration

Option I

[root@localhost]# /usr/sbin/oracleasm configure -I

Default user to own the driver interface []: oracle
Default group to own the driver interface []: dba
Scan for Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n) [y]: y
Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: done

The next two configuration options take substrings to match device names.
The substring "sd" (without the quotes), for example, matches "sda", "sdb",
etc.  You may enter more than one substring pattern, separated by spaces.
The special string "none" (again, without the quotes) will clear the value.

Device order to scan for ASM disks []: sd
Devices to exclude from scanning []: 
Use device logical block size for ASM (y/n) [n]: 
Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: done

Option II

[root@localhost]# oracleasm configure -i

Default user to own the driver interface []: grid
Default group to own the driver interface []: asmadmin
Scan for Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n) [y]: y
Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: done

Initialize ASMLib

oracleasm init

Creating /dev/oracleasm mount point: /dev/oracleasm
Loading module "oracleasm": oracleasm
Configuring "oracleasm" to use device physical block size
Mounting ASMlib driver filesystem: /dev/oracleasm

Create Disks for ASM (as root)

• oracleasm status
• oracleasm scandisks

Command Format: oracleasm createdisk <diskname> <device_name>

Examples:

oracleasm createdisk ACFS /dev/sdb1
oracleasm createdisk DATA1 /dev/sdc1
oracleasm createdisk FRA /dev/sdd1
oracleasm createdisk OCR_VOTING /dev/sde1
oracleasm createdisk REDO1 /dev/sdf1
oracleasm createdisk REDO2 /dev/sdg1

Display Newly Created Disks

/usr/sbin/oracleasm scandisks
/usr/sbin/oracleasm listdisks

DATA1
DATA2
FRA
OCR1
OCR2

Confirm Disks Mounted

ls -l /dev/oracleasm/disks

brw-rw----. 1 oracle dba 8, 65 Sep 27 09:03 DATA1
brw-rw----. 1 oracle dba 8, 81 Sep 27 09:03 DATA2
brw-rw----. 1 oracle dba 8, 17 Sep 27 09:01 FRA
brw-rw----. 1 oracle dba 8, 33 Sep 27 09:03 OCR1
brw-rw----. 1 oracle dba 8, 49 Sep 27 09:03 OCR2

ASMLib Status

systemctl status oracleasm

oracleasm.service - Load oracleasm Modules
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/oracleasm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Wed 2016-10-26 16:02:41 EDT; 1min 0s ago
  Process: 655 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/service oracleasm start_sysctl (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 655 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/oracleasm.service

Oct 26 16:02:33 rac01 systemd[1]: Starting Load oracleasm Modules...
Oct 26 16:02:39 rac01 service[655]: Initializing the Oracle ASMLib driver: [  OK  ]
Oct 26 16:02:41 rac01 service[655]: Scanning the system for Oracle ASMLib disks: [  OK  ]
Oct 26 16:02:41 rac01 systemd[1]: Started Load oracleasm Modules.