Oracle 12c Grid ASM installation Part-1 | Karan Rajpoot

                                         Oracle 12c grid ASM installation Part-1

In my previous blog, I have shown you how to install Oracle 12c grid binary, In this blog, I will show you how to do Oracle 12c ASM installation.

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High-Level Steps for Oracle 12c grid ASM installation

1) Need to create ASM disks to store data. (Size as per the requirement)

2) Unzip the 12c grid software.

3) Install the necessary RPM's

4) Format all the raw disks.

5) Add the necessary groups.

6) Create or modify the user.

7) Configure and create all the disks.

8) Execute the runInstaller command to do the final installation.

Here is the step by step installation of Oracle 12c ASM. 

Step 1) We need to create ASM disks to store data.

Steps to create ASM disks.

1) Go to Oracle Virtual box, select the Machine Name and click on setting tab.

2) Click on storage and then click on the below tab to create the disks.

3) We can see in the below output, 6 ASM disks are now ready for use.

Step 2) I have already unzip the grid software in my previous Oracle 12c grid binary blog.

Step 3) Now we need to install necessary RPM's to configure the ASM.

Note: - Before you install the RPM packages, first you need to identify your O.S version through a command called uname -r

Package name for oel6: -

oracleasm-support-2.1.8-1.el6.x86_64.rpm 

oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Step 4) Now need to format all the raw disks.

Note: - You need to format these disk the only sdb,sdc,sdd,sde,sdf,sdh, don't touch sda because it is used for your OS level use.

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# fdisk /dev/sdb

Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel

Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x7dd54d7f.

Changes will remain in memory only until you decide to write them.

After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to

         switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to

         sectors (command 'u').

Command (m for help): u

Changing display/entry units to sectors

Command (m for help): n

Command action

   e   extended

   p   primary partition (1-4)

p

Partition number (1-4): 1

First sector (63-20971519, default 63): ----Press Enter

Using default value 63

Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (63-20971519, default 20971519): ----Press Enter

Using default value 20971519

Command (m for help): w

The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

Syncing disks.

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# 

Note: - Do the same steps for all the remaining disks.

Steps 5) I have already added necessary groups in my previous Oracle 12c grid binary blog.

Step 6) I have already created a user in my previous Oracle 12c grid binary blog.

Step 7) Now need to Configure and Create all the disks.

Configure steps

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm configure

Configuring the Oracle ASM library driver.

This will configure the on-boot properties of the Oracle ASM library

driver.  The following questions will determine whether the driver is

loaded on boot and what permissions it will have.  The current values

will be shown in brackets ('[]').  Hitting <ENTER> without typing an

answer will keep that current value.  Ctrl-C will abort.

Default user to own the driver interface []: grid

Default group to own the driver interface []: asmadmin

Start Oracle ASM library driver on boot (y/n) [n]: y

Scan for Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n) [y]: y

Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: done

Initializing the Oracle ASMLib driver:                     [  OK  ]

Scanning the system for Oracle ASMLib disks:               [  OK  ]

Disks Creation steps

 [root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# oracleasm createdisk OCR_VOTE01 /dev/sdb1

Writing disk header: done

Instantiating disk: done

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# oracleasm createdisk OCR_VOTE02 /dev/sdc1

Writing disk header: done

Instantiating disk: done

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# oracleasm createdisk OCR_VOTE03 /dev/sdd1

Writing disk header: done

Instantiating disk: done

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# oracleasm createdisk DATA01 /dev/sde1

Writing disk header: done

Instantiating disk: done

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# oracleasm createdisk DATA02 /dev/sdf1

Writing disk header: done

Instantiating disk: done

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# oracleasm createdisk FRA01 /dev/sdg1

Writing disk header: done

Instantiating disk: done

Scan all the disks

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# oracleasm scandisks

Reloading disk partitions: done

Cleaning any stale ASM disks...

Scanning system for ASM disks...

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# 

List all the disks

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# oracleasm listdisks

DATA01

DATA02

FRA01

OCR_VOTE01

OCR_VOTE02

OCR_VOTE03

[root@dr sf_Oracle_DBA_Softwares]# 

I will show the last step (Execute the runInstaller command to do the final installation) in my next blog otherwise, the blog will get too lengthy.

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