ORACLEASM TOOL FOR MANAGING ASM ON ORACLE LINUX
ASMLIB is an asm utility which is free to use to manage and discover asm disks logically . This tool can map the disks to the diskgroups easily.
There are three rpm packages for using oracleasm utility
- oracleasmlib
- oracleasm-support
- kmod-oracleasm
Use below commands to install the packages from ULN repository
yum install kmod-oracleasm -y
wget https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/asmlib/oracleasmlib-2.0.17-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
wget https://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/addons/x86_64/getPackage/oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall ./oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64.rpm ./oracleasmlib-2.0.17-1.el8.x86_64.rpmSAMPLE OUTPUT:
[root@dgprim01 oracle]# wget https://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/ addons/x86_64/getPackage/oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
--2021-08-23 19:39:52-- https://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/addo ns/x86_64/getPackage/oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
Resolving public-yum.oracle.com (public-yum.oracle.com)... 106.51.144.225, 2600: 140f:c000:184::2a7d, 2600:140f:c000:188::2a7d
Connecting to public-yum.oracle.com (public-yum.oracle.com)|106.51.144.225|:443. .. connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 99852 (98K) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: ‘oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64.rpm’
oracleasm-support-2 100%[===================>] 97.51K --.-KB/s in 0.02s
2021-08-23 19:39:52 (6.10 MB/s) - ‘oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64.rpm’ sa ved [99852/99852]
[root@dgprim01 oracle]# yum localinstall ./oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64.rpm ./oracleasmlib-2.0.17-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
Last metadata expiration check: 23:56:50 ago on Sun 22 Aug 2021 07:43:23 PM IST.
Package oracleasmlib-2.0.17-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
oracleasm-support x86_64 2.1.12-1.el8 @commandline 98 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package
Total size: 98 k
Installed size: 349 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64 1/1
Running scriptlet: oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64 1/1
Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable oracleasm.service'.
Synchronizing state of oracleasm.service with SysV service script with /usr/lib/ systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable oracleasm
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/oracleasm.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/oracleasm.service.
/sbin/ldconfig: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-5.4.17-2102.201.3.el8uek.x86_64.conf:6: hwcap directive ignored
Verifying : oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64 1/1
Installed:
oracleasm-support-2.1.12-1.el8.x86_64
Complete!
[root@dgprim01 oracle]#
Use the below link to configure and create diskgroups for oracleasm