Hi Sreejith, Thanks for the info on grid home. Yes, I installed ASMlib but are there any configurations to make the LUN as a candidate disk? So should I do it before I run the grid installer? Please confirm. Thanks. On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Sreejith Nair <sreejithsna@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi Sundar, > I have just started to setup 11gR2 RAC on 2 Linux boxes with 100gb. lun > SAN. With 11gR2, there are a few changes like > 1. ASM,OCR and VD is part of a single home called grid home. > 2. Database software binaries in ORACLE_HOME. > I have just downloaded ASMlib to mark my LUN as a candidate disk,so that my > grid infrastructure installation could detect it. However I did not try that > yet. Did you try with ASMlib? > > Cheers, > SSN > -- Sreejith Nair > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > "sundar mahadevan" <sundarmahadevan82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Hi All, > >Wish you all a very happy new year. I am trying to setup a 11gR2 non > >RAC > >with ASM on OEL 5.4 I am having trouble setting up ASM. I have an ACER > >laptop with 4GB RAM and 320 GB hard drive each. Would appreciate if you > >could help me with the following: > > > >1) ASM is defined as a feature. So is there a file system underneath or > >is > >it working on raw devices? I did not find a straight answer for this. > >2) To setup 11gR2 RAC with ASM and 11gR2 NON RAC with ASM, am I correct > >in > >understanding that 2 separate binaries are required on 2 > >laptops/servers > >meaning there will be 4 oracle homes: 1 for ASM, 1 for RAC binary, 1 > >for Non > >RAC binary, 1 for clusterware > >3) I installed a 11gR2 non rac binary successfully (just the software > >no > >database). Now I am trying to install ASM with grid infrastructure > >runinstaller. My disks are not detected at this stage. The default OS > >setup > >came with 4 logical volumes and I created a logical volume LogVol04 of > >size > >105GB to be used for ASM. I used iscsi initiator and detected it as > >/dev/sdb. What am I doing wrong here. Should n't /dev/sdb1 be detected > >by > >asm for disks? Please advice. Many Thanks for your help. > > > >*Before iscsi initiator start: > >* > >root@sunny2 /root$ fdisk -l > > > >Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes > >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders > >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > >/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > >/dev/sda2 14 38913 312464250 8e Linux LVM > >root@sunny2 /root$ > > > >*After iscsi initiator start:* > > > >root@sunny2 /root$ fdisk -l > > > >Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes > >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders > >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > >/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > >/dev/sda2 14 38913 312464250 8e Linux LVM > > > >Disk /dev/sdb: 104.8 GB, 104857600000 bytes > >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12748 cylinders > >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > >/dev/sdb1 1 12748 102398278+ 83 Linux > >root@sunny2 /root$ > > > > > >root@sunny2 /root$ ll /dev/VolGroup01/* > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 1 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 -> > >/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00 > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 1 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 -> > >/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol01 > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 1 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol02 -> > >/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol02 > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 1 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol03 -> > >/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol03 > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 1 17:40 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol04 -> > >/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol04 > >root@sunny2 /root$ > >