Original Post can be viewed at Oracle Database Appliance Introduced

Oracle has introduced it new product: ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) I was not able to join Oracle President Mark Hurd’s webcast where he supposed to announce a new Oracle product[It was at 1AM my time and I was sleeping], now viewing this webcast HERE Kerry Osborne has shared information about this product, click link to [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at In-Place Upgrade 11gR2 RAC : 11.2.0.1 To 11.2.0.2

Sharing a post from my friend “Carthik” on 11gR2 RAC in-place upgrade. Overview ======== Starting oracle 11gR2 the Oracle database and Clusterware upgrades are done via the “Out of place upgrade”. And is the easier way to perform your upgrade.  However, the intent of this blog is to explain how an “In-Place upgrade” of a [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Adding a reinstalled/reimaged node back to 11gR2 Cluster

There could be a scenario of node crash due to OS/hardware issues and a reinstall/reimage of the same. In such cases, just a normal node addition would not  help since the OCR still contain the references of original node. We need to remove them first and then perform a node addition. Have tried to document [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Renaming Diskgroup containing Voting Disk and OCR

Recently encountered a issue where we had to rename a diskgroup for 11.2 RAC containing OCR and Voting Disk.At this moment we had not created database . I had done similar activity on 11.2 Single instance having database files (see this post) using renamedg. Therefore we tried using same approach to do this activity. Pre-requisite [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at How To Discover Disk Name When LUN Number is Known (OEL5)

I am creating 11gR2 RAC setup for one of my client. Following Oracle documentation for storage, I opted for Oracle ASM and asked storage team for new physical devices. Storage admin thus provided me with a set of LUNs instead of actual physical device names like /dev/sdcxxx. Now the major task is to get the [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11gR2: Steps to Rename ASM Diskgroup with DB files

11gR2 introduced renamedg utility to rename diskgroups. I would discuss renaming a diskgroup on a Standalone Grid Infrastructure installation with Oracle Restart. Before you use the command, ensure that ASM diskgroup is dismounted. Below is syntax for the command. You can refer to 11gR2 docs for details renamedg [phase={ one|two |both } ] dgname=diskgroup newdgname=newdiskgroup [config=configfile] [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11gR2 – SysAsm vs SysDba

SYSASM role was introduced in 11gR1 and was designed to administer ASM instances. In 11gR1 , if you connected with SYSDBA role , you used to get a warning which was only recorded in alert log (Refer to my earlier post here). But things have changed in 11gR2. While trying to dismount a Diskgroup, I [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Link:11gR2 RAC installation steps on OEL4

If you are looking for steps for 11gR2 RAC installation, you can refer to this article by Rajeev Ramdas at Dbastreet.com. Article lists down steps for installing 11gR2 RAC on 64 bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 (OEL4) using ASM for storage. As Raw devices are no longer supported, OCR and Voting Disks are also stored [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Get Upgrading: Steps To Upgrade To 11gR2

As 11gR2 is out for Linux, I decided to upgrade one of my existing 10.2.0.3 database to 11.2.0.1 to get the look and feel of 11gR2. Direct upgrade to 11gR2 is supported from 9.2.0.8 or higher, 10.1.0.5 or higher, 10.2.0.2 or higher and 11.1.0.6 or higher. If you have a database 9.2.0.6 then first you [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11gR2 Database Installation with ASM on OEL5

I will be listing down steps for 11g Release 2 installation on Linux x86. There has been few changes incorporated in 11gR2 which must be given due consideration before starting installation. ASM instance now runs from new Oracle Home called Grid Infrastructure. If you wish to use ASM for storing database files, then you should [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at ORA-1078 ORA-1565 Errors while starting database with SPFILE on ASM

I was getting following error’s while starting a database using spfile on ASM. Actually this was a cloned RAC environment. SQL> create SPFILE='+ASM_GROUP/PORTALDB/spfileportaldb.ora' from pfile; File created. SQL> shut immediate; ORA-01109: database not open Database dismounted. ORACLE instance shut down. SQL> exit SQL> startup mount ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters ORA-01565: error in identifying [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Creating ASM devices on AIX

I thought of sharing few tips on creating ASM devices on AIX which I will be helpful to Oracle DBA’s. Suppose SysAdmin gives you list of Serial numbers for LUN instead of device Name pcmpath query device DEV#: 33 DEVICE NAME: hdisk33 TYPE: 2107900 ALGORITHM: Load Balance SERIAL: 75DM011<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>1101</strong></span> =========================================================================== Path# Adapter/Path Name [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Creating Oracle Extended RAC on Oracle VM

Yesterday, I found one very useful article at OTN “Creating Oracle Extended RAC” on completely virtual environment using Oracle VM. As Virtualization is becoming popular day by day and is very cost effective, one must know how to use this to simulate actual environments. Click  here for details on Oracle Extended RAC on Oracle VM. [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Question:Sizing ASM LUN

We received following question from Mr Orlando through our Contact Page How about a discussion on how to size our LUNS to use with ASM. For instance we have a Dell MD3000 with 44x300GB HDDs (protected by RAID-10) and we’re planning to create LUNs of 2TB on the Storage, and deliver them to Windows 2003. [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Raw Devices to be deprecated in 12G

I was browsing through the OraNA.info posts and found an interesting post from Steve Karam which referred to a metalink Note:578455.1 – Announcement of De-Support of RAW devices in Release 12G If you go through the note, it mentions desupport of Raw devices from Oracle Database 12G. Article also lists out possibility of using ASM,OCFS [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Automatic Storage Management (ASM) FAQ

We have tried to consolidate list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on ASM. Please feel free to ask any other question or contribute to this FAQ by using comment section Frequently Asked Question on ASM 1) What is ASM? Automatic storage Management (ASM) is a new type of filesystem which was introduced with Oracle 10g. [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11G:SYSASM role

Starting from Oracle 11g ASM, new privilege has been created for Administering Oracle ASM instances. This is called SYSASM role. You can continue using SYSDBA role to connect to ASM but it will generate following warning messages at time of startup/shutdown, create Diskgroup/add disk, etc. <strong>$ adrci</strong> ADRCI: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Beta on Tue Jul [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at New ASM Background Processes in 11G

Few hours back I installed Oracle Database 11g(Though still DB is yet to be created), so I started playing with the ASM instance. First thing I did was to check ASM alert.log. I used ADRCI (11g) to see it adrci&gt; show incident ADR Home = /u03/app/oracle/diag/asm/+asm/+ASM: ********************************************************* 0 rows fetched adrci&gt; show alert ADR Home [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -II

Some time back, I had written about CSS service not starting in my post 11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -I After doing some research, I came across Metalink Document Note:397238.1 – How to Convert init.cssd as a SMF service for Solaris 10 This document talks about using Service Management Facility (SMF) which was introduced [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Can ASM DiskGroup Be Renamed?

This was actually a question on Oracle forum which I had replied to. Basically the Poster, wanted to know if he could rename the ASM Diskgroup name by renaming/editing ASM Disk header. He had also mentioned that he had heard about this being done by Oracle for its few customers using kfed. Answer is NO. [...]

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