ASM TheNextGeneration

TimothyMishek,ITT timothymishek@yahoo.com

Agenda
Introduction ASMOverview InstallingGridControl ASMConfigurationAssistant ASMCommandLineInterface IntegrationofClusterReadyServices ADVMandACFS UpgradingASM AdditionsandEnhancementswith11gR2

SessionGoals
Developanunderstandingofallthenewfeatures introducedin11gR2 HaveabetterunderstandingofwhatASMisand howitcanbenefityourorganization UnderstandhowASMworksinrelationtodisk storage Gooverdifferentplanningstrategies Easethefearsometimesassociatedwithanew technology BuildconfidencewithallaspectsofASM

ASMOverview

WhatisASM?
AutomaticStorageManagementorASMisOracles solutioninsimplifyingstoragemanagement. AllowsforsharedstorageinaRealApplicationClusters environment. ASMinstancesonlyallowOracledatabasefilestobe storedonASMmanagedvolumes. Physicaldiskscanbeaddedorremovedwhilea databaseisinanopenstate. ASMoffersthreemaintypesofmirroring. AnASMinstancehasthesamelookandfeelasa traditionaldatabaseinstance. AnOracledatabasecaneasilybeupgradedtoASM.

WhatsNew?
ASMisnowpartofthegridcontrolarchitecture IntroductionofOracleRestart ASMconfigurationassistant(asmca) ASMDynamicVolumeManager(ADVM) ASMclusterfilesystem(ACFS) StorageofOCRandVotingdisksdirectlyonan ASMdiskgroup NewcommandsaddedtotheASMCommand LineInterface(ASMCMD) VolumeSnapshots

WhatsNew?Continued
StorageoftheASMspfileondirectlyanASM diskgroup HotandColddiskregionscanbedefined ThenewSYSASMrole Enhancedsecurity sga_targetparameterisnowavailablefor ASMinstances

InstallingGridControl

InstallationDifferencesfromPrevious Versions
Before11gR2,theASMinstallationwaspart ofthedatabaseinstall. Inpreviousversions,theASMinstallation couldbepartofthedatabasehome. TheASMinstallationcouldbeinitsown home. OnlytheOracleClusterSynchronization serviceorCSSwasneededforASM.

InstallingASMin11gR2
ASMinstallationhastobeinstalledaspartof thegridcontrolinfrastructure. TheASMhomecannotbeinstalledinthe databasehome. TheASMhomemustbeinstalledinthegrid controlhome. Clusterservicesarenowinstalledaspartof thegridcontrolinfrastructure.

InstallingGridControl

Theinitialgridcontrolinfrastructureinstallationscreen

SettingUpASM

InstallationscreenforsettinguptheASMdiskgroup

ASMConfigurationAssistant

ASMCA
ASMConfigurationAssistantisnewto11gR2 UsedforASMadministrativefunctions Create,delete,mount,anddismountdisk groups ConfigureASMVolumes Create,mount,anddismountASMclusterfile systems UpgradeASMinstances

ASMCAInstancesTab

InaRACenvironment,theininstancestabshowsthestatusofeachnode.

ASMCADiskGroupsTab

TheASMCADiskGroupstaballowsconfigurationoftheASMdiskgroup.

ASMCAVolumesTab

ASMvolumesareconfiguredontheVolumestab.

ASMCAACFSTab

ASMClusterFileSystemsareconfiguredonthistab.

ASMCommandLineInterface

ASMCMD
Introducedin10gR2asacommandline interfaceforASMadministration Givesadministratorsanalternativeto queryingASMinstancesusingSQL*Plus Additionalcommandsandfunctionalityadded in11gR2 ASMVolumescanbeconfigured Newlyaddedcommandsforconfiguring security

ASMCMDAddedCommands

Additionalcommandsareaddedin11gR2.

VolumeInformation

Volumeinformationisshownusingthenewvolinfo command.

VolumeUsage

ASMvolumeusageisshownbyusingthevolstat command.

IntegrationofClusterReadyServices

OracleRestart
OracleHighAvailabilityServicesisnowrequiredfor allASMinstallations. OracleRestartistheclustercomponentfor standaloneinstances. OracleRestartusestheOracleLocalRepository(OLR) andLocalClusterRepository(OCR). Clustertoolsareusedforadministration(srvctl, crsctletc.). Ifafailureisdetected,OracleRestartattemptsto restarttheservice.

OracleRestartConfiguration
Configurationfilesolr.locandocr.locpointing tothelocalOCRandOLRarefound: Linux/etc/oracle Solaris/var/opt/oracle WindowsRegistryshowsthelocationsofthe OLRandOCR:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Oracle\ocr HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Oracle\olr

OracleRestartConfiguration
Unixinstallations,theocr.locfilehastheline local_only=TRUE Windowsinstallations,theregistrykey
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Oracle\ocr "local_only"="TRUE Inadefaultinstallation,theolrandocrfilesare createdinthegridhomeundercdata/localhost. TheOracleUniversalInstallerincludingtheroot.sh createstheentireconfiguration.

CreatingOracleRestartManually
Theroot.shfilecreatesOracleRestartduring theGridinstallation.

Cluster components created immediately after the root.sh is run

CreatingtheListener

The listener is created and started using the srvctl command.

CreatingASMinOracleRestart

An existing ASM instance is added to the Oracle Restart configuration. If an spfile is already in place on the ASM instance, add p <spfile>.

InitialASMConfiguration

The initial ASM configuration shows ASM without an spfile defined.

ASMConfiguration
In11gR2,thespfileforASMlivesdirectlyontheDisk Group. OracleRestartautomaticallyregistersthespfile whenitiscreatedinSQL*Plus. TheASMinstanceneedstobeshutdownand restartedwiththepfile.
SQL> startup pfile=initasm.ora;

TheASMspfilecannowbecreatedontheDisk Group.
SQL> create spfile=+DATA from pfile=initasm.ora

ASMCompleted

After the creation of the spfile, the new location is now showing up.

DatabaseAddedtoOracleRestart

The database is added to finalize the configuration using srvctl add database -d RMOUG -n RMOUG -o /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1 -p +DATA/rmoug/spfilermoug.ora -s open -t immediate

StartingTheDatabase

The database is started using srvctl start database -d RMOUG. The configuration is complete.

ADVMandACFS

ADVMandACFS
ASMnowoffersavolumemanagerforthe storageofregularoperatingsystemfiles. Introducedin11gR2 ASMDynamicVolumeManager(ADVM) ASMclusterfilesystem(ACFS) ora.registry.acfs nodeapplicationonly availableforRAC

ACFSDriver
Theacfsdriverhastobeloadedastheroot userusingtheacfsload command. OnaRACserver,theclusterloadsthedriver usingtheora.registry.acfs nodeapplication.

CreateVolumeusingASMCA

The ASM volume is created under the Volumes tab.

CreateTheASMVolumeusing ASMCA

Using asmca, the volume name ACFS is created here.

NewVolume

The Volumes tab shows the newly created volume.

CreateACFS

The ASM Cluster File Systems tab is used to create the clustered file system.

CreateACFS

The Create ASM Cluster File System screen shows configuration options.

ACFSCommandOptions

The show command button shows the commands to create the cluster file system.

ACFSCompleted

The ASM Cluster File Systems tab shows the completed clustered file system in a dismounted state.

MountACFS

The mount all command needs to be run on any standalone system as the root user to mount all acfs file systems. RAC mounts registered file systems using the ora.registry.acfs node application.

ACFSMounted

The clustered file system is mounted and can be used by the operating system.

ACFSMountedandAvailable

The file system is mounted and showing up as a mount point to the operating system. If this were a RAC node, the file system /acfs would be shared.

UpgradingASM

UpgradeOptions
Ifinitiallyinstallingthegridcontrol infrastructure,thereisanoptiontoupgrade ASMtothecurrentversion. AnalternateoptionrequiresusingtheASM configurationassistant(asmca). Aslongasthedatabasecompatibleversionis thesameversionasthedatabase,ASMcanbe upgradedtosupportthepreviousdatabase release.

OracleGridControlInstaller

ASM can be upgraded during the grid control installation.

UpgradeASMusingASMCA

If asmca detects a previous version, ASM can be upgraded here.

AdditionsandEnhancements

11gR2Additionsand Enhancements
Introducedin11gR1,thesysasmroleallows fulladministrativefunctions. Enhancedsecurity Hotandcoldregionscanbedefinedondisks. ThespfilefortheASMinstanceisnowableto bestoreddirectlyonanASMdiskgroup. SizingoftheSGAnowsupportsthesga_target parameter.

SessionSummary
Lookingahead,ASMwillcontinuetogain popularitywithdatabaseprofessionals.Not onlyisASMaprovenstoragesolutionfor clusteredenvironments,butisprovenforthe generalmanagementofdatabasefileandfile systemstorage.Giveitatry!

Questions?

ThankYou!
TimothyMishek timothymishek@yahoo.com