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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Datasheet: Oracle Exadata 'expansion' rack

Exadata MAAAAAAA

AUTO DOP !

That little AUTO DOP rascal :

http://uhesse.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/auto-dop-differences-of-parallel_degree_policyautolimited/

Superb posting by Uwe Hesse - always the best !


Performance Tuning - Tracing

Good discussion on Voting disk / OCR location for ASM

UEK

Virtualization fun stuff

Would love to lay my hands on the Solaris 11 VM & learn !
This is the Virtual Box prebuilt-page:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vm/index.html


Oracle VM for Oracle Virtual Box !!
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/vm/template-1482544.html

Should try that out one of these days.


Oracle Database Appliance

On patching schedules for 11.2.0.3

Another new acronym, that will become popular: QDPE: Quarterly Database Patch for Exadata !

And another: QFSDP  (Go figure !)


http://www.pythian.com/news/29911/introducing-thequarterly-database-patch-for-exadata/


A Colvin blogged about it also:
http://blog.oracle-ninja.com/2012/01/new-exadata-full-stack-patches/

THE Rene Kundersma:
http://blogs.oracle.com/XPSONHA/entry/first_quarterly_full_stack_download


Great 'POCKET REFERENCE' from Oracle

WHAT IS BIG DATA

Much awaited - ZERO DOWNTIME MIGRATION USING GOLDENGATE !

On Voting Disk & node eviction logic

Make Your Cubicle a Better Place to Work

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

10053 Trace file viewer

HAIP & CHM in 11.2.0.2

From Alejandra Vargas:
http://blogs.oracle.com/AlejandroVargas/entry/rac11_2_0_2_redundant

The pdf link doesn't work tho

Exadata in your laptop !



Kinda trailblazer, first-of-its-kind, whatever you choose to call.
Gokhan Atil is THE MAN !

http://www.gokhanatil.com/2012/01/is-it-possible-to-build-exadata.html

DIY

Jason Arneil's blog posting is the latest knock.
http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/building-an-exadata-compute-node-usb-imaging-drive/

Vishal Gupta's is also helpful:
http://blog.vishalgupta.com/2011/10/23/exadata-storage-compute-node-remote-reimaging/
http://blog.vishalgupta.com/2011/10/15/oracle-exadata-documentation/



All reminds of a  proverb in Tamil:
ஞாயிà®±ை கை மறைப்பாà®°் à®‡à®²்

Translated, it means, you cannot cover the sun using your.hands.


Avoiding 11.2.0.3 pitfalls w.r.t ACFS/ADVM

Oracle Data Applicance - Resource Kit page

THE FUTURE BECKONS - Database as a service - cookbook - DIY & test


To borrow from Nike:
JUST DO IT
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/cloud-mgmt/em12c-dbaas-cookbook-1432364.pdf#sf2898668


To install 12c, step by step, follow Gokhan Atil's guide:
http://www.gokhanatil.com/2011/10/howto-install-oracle-enterprise-manager.html

If you are totally new to 12c, here's what should bring you upto speed quickly:
Total Cloud Control. Zero to cloud in one day: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/cloud-mgmt-496758.html

How to create a 2nd standby db from the 1st?! - Interesting from Surachart Opun

Saturday, January 7, 2012

First post from iPhone

Back blogging

Why do we blog? I mean, one can understand if you are blogging on your company site. Answer seems to me like someone might hit upon this and be benefited. Even my little daughter might chance across this blog...when she's big enough like they show in this ad for Google. But foremost, is a primordial & basic impulse of expressing oneself.

Case in hand specifically is, there's a lot good information floating around via twitter.
This could be a permanent place to collect 'em.

So, I am back blogging.

Monday, February 8, 2010

A lovely and beautiful and slow and grey day

I know time will fly. Weeks and months roll on.

"Each day just goes so fast
I turn around , it's past
...
...
A lifetime is so short
A new one can't be bought"
         --- "Love you to", Beatles, The Revolver

We all wanted our workdays to be very short and weekends long.
We wanted to laze around at home and never wanted to come office.

It's strange that I want to come to my office each day and actually wish the day doesn't end so quickly.
I wish I had enjoyed my workplace more. Just 4 more days. Grey and beautiful. Hum of the datacenter seeping thru. On some brilliant days, the sunlight. Today, the greyness.

Time to go home.
But today is a beautiful long day.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Trying out tamil fonts in blogging

Lexington - என் மகளின் சொந்த à®Šà®°்  !!!
இந்த ஊரை விட்டு செல்ல கஷ்டமாகத்தான் இருக்கிறது.

என்à®±ானுà®®் à®®ீண்டுà®®் வருவோà®®். வந்தால் Mt. Tabor park, kirklevinkle park, jacobson park - இங்கெல்லாà®®் என் பொண்ணுடன் மனைவியுடன் à®®ீண்டுà®®் walking செல்வோà®®்...

தமிà®´ில் வெளிபடுத்த செய்த google-க்கு நன்à®±ி நன்à®±ி

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Managing ASM Disk Discovery



Most of the times, when everything else fails we turn to setting ASM_DISKSTRING as '/dev/oracleasm/disks/*' and it is almost always guaranteed to work. But this way we know that the ASM Library is not used at all and disk discovery happens outside the Library. Not a good thing. This can be confirmed using kfod (kfod asm_diskstring=ORCL:* disks=all) . So, what should you tinker with then  to use the ASM Lib rather than the SYSTEM library, as shown by the LIBRARY field of v$asm_disk? When doing a migration, you may also get a HEADER_STATUS=UNKNOWN and the errors ORA-15032, ORA-15063 and ORA-15186.

Well, if you are using multipathing s/w, you got to let the disk discovery use just the pseudo-devices and not any of the many single devices (thru' many I/O paths) that form a single pseudo device. If you are using EMC with PowerPath, set it to emcpower. If you are using NetApp with DeviceMapper, set it to dm.


oracle---tlxkrdbrr1.lex.lexmark.com--/home/oracle--orcl1
> su -
Password:
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# inq
Inquiry utility, Version V7.3-872 (Rev 0.0)      (SIL Version V6.5.0.0 (Edit Level 872)
Copyright (C) by EMC Corporation, all rights reserved.
For help type inq -h.

...............................................................................
....

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DEVICE         :VEND    :PROD            :REV   :SER NUM    :CAP(kb)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sda       :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/sdb       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    15728640
/dev/sdc       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    20971520
/dev/sdd       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sde       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdf       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdg       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdh       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdi       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdj       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdk       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJRN   :     2097152
/dev/sdl       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    15728640
/dev/sdm       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    20971520
/dev/sdn       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdo       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdp       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdq       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdr       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sds       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdt       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdu       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJRN   :     2097152
/dev/sdv       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    15728640
/dev/sdw       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    20971520
/dev/sdx       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdy       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdz       :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-0      :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/dm-1      :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/dm-2      :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/dm-3      :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/dm-4      :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/dm-5      :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/dm-6      :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/dm-7      :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/dm-8      :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/dm-9      :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/sdaa      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdab      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdac      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdad      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdae      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJRN   :     2097152
/dev/sdaf      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    15728640
/dev/sdag      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    20971520
/dev/sdah      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdai      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdaj      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdak      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdal      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdam      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdan      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/sdao      :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJRN   :     2097152
/dev/sdap      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :65000091   :    20971520
/dev/sdaq      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :69000093   :   157286400
/dev/sdar      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :68000083   :    10485760
/dev/sdas      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :65000091   :    20971520
/dev/sdat      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :69000093   :   157286400
/dev/sdau      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :68000083   :    10485760
/dev/sdav      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :65000091   :    20971520
/dev/sdaw      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :69000093   :   157286400
/dev/sdax      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :68000083   :    10485760
/dev/sday      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :65000091   :    20971520
/dev/sdaz      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :69000093   :   157286400
/dev/sdba      :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :68000083   :    10485760
/dev/dm-10     :DELL    :PERC 6/i        :1.21  :           :   142737408
/dev/dm-11     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-12     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    15728640
/dev/dm-13     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-14     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-15     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-16     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-17     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJRN   :     2097152
/dev/dm-18     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    20971520
/dev/dm-19     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-20     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-21     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ/   :    20971520
/dev/dm-22     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-23     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-24     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/dm-25     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJRN   :     2097152
/dev/dm-27     :NETAPP  :LUN             :7310  :HnanPJQ0   :     5242880
/dev/emcpowera :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :65000091   :    20971520
/dev/emcpowerb :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :69000093   :   157286400
/dev/emcpowerc :DGC     :RAID 5          :0226  :68000083   :    10485760
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks
ASMDISK01
ASMDISK02
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisks ASMDISK01 ASMDISK02
Usage: /etc/init.d/oracleasm {start|stop|restart|enable|disable|configure|createdisk|deletedisk|querydisk|listdisks|scandisks|status}
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk ASMDISK01 ASMDISK02
Disk "ASMDISK01" is a valid ASM disk on device [66, 145]
Disk "ASMDISK02" is a valid ASM disk on device [66, 161]
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# cat /proc/partitions | egrep '145|161'
   8   161    2095662 sdk1
  65   145    5238597 sdz1
  65   161    5238597 sdaa1
  66   145   20971504 sdap1  <====== This is totally wrong. The ASM disk should not be individual
  66   161  157284351 sdaq1  <====== disks. It should on the multipathed device
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# cat /proc/partitions | egrep -i emc
120    32   10485760 emcpowerc
120    33    3001328 emcpowerc1
120    34    3001344 emcpowerc2
120    35    4483072 emcpowerc3
120    16  157286400 emcpowerb
120    17  157284351 emcpowerb1 <===== ASMDISK02 SHOULD IDEALLY BE ON THIS
120     0   20971520 emcpowera
120     1   20971504 emcpowera1 <===== ASMDISK01 SHOULD IDEALLY BE ON THIS
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# cp /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm.bk_jc_08_24
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm
#
# This is a configuration file for automatic loading of the Oracle
# Automatic Storage Management library kernel driver.  It is generated
# By running /etc/init.d/oracleasm configure.  Please use that method
# to modify this file
#

# ORACLEASM_ENABELED: 'true' means to load the driver on boot.
ORACLEASM_ENABLED=true

# ORACLEASM_UID: Default user owning the /dev/oracleasm mount point.
ORACLEASM_UID=oracle

# ORACLEASM_GID: Default group owning the /dev/oracleasm mount point.
ORACLEASM_GID=oinstall

# ORACLEASM_SCANBOOT: 'true' means fix disk perms on boot
ORACLEASM_SCANBOOT=true

# ORACLEASM_CLEARBOOT: 'true' means clean old disk perms on boot
ORACLEASM_CLEARBOOT=true

# ORACLEASM_SCANORDER: Matching patterns to order disk scanning
ORACLEASM_SCANORDER=dm

# ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE: Matching patterns to exclude disks from scan
ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE=

[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# vi /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm
#
# This is a configuration file for automatic loading of the Oracle
# Automatic Storage Management library kernel driver.  It is generated
# By running /etc/init.d/oracleasm configure.  Please use that method
# to modify this file
#

# ORACLEASM_ENABELED: 'true' means to load the driver on boot.
ORACLEASM_ENABLED=true

# ORACLEASM_UID: Default user owning the /dev/oracleasm mount point.
ORACLEASM_UID=oracle

# ORACLEASM_GID: Default group owning the /dev/oracleasm mount point.
ORACLEASM_GID=oinstall

# ORACLEASM_SCANBOOT: 'true' means fix disk perms on boot
ORACLEASM_SCANBOOT=true

# ORACLEASM_CLEARBOOT: 'true' means clean old disk perms on boot
ORACLEASM_CLEARBOOT=true

# ORACLEASM_SCANORDER: Matching patterns to order disk scanning
#ORACLEASM_SCANORDER=dm
ORACLEASM_SCANORDER=

# ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE: Matching patterns to exclude disks from scan
ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE=

[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm restart
Unmounting ASMlib driver filesystem:                       [  OK  ]
Unloading module "oracleasm":                              [  OK  ]
Loading module "oracleasm":                                [  OK  ]
Mounting ASMlib driver filesystem:                         [  OK  ]
Scanning system for ASM disks:                             [  OK  ]
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk ASMDISK01 ASMDISK02
Disk "ASMDISK01" is a valid ASM disk on device [66, 145]  <===== STILL WRONG
Disk "ASMDISK02" is a valid ASM disk on device [66, 161]
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# vi /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm restart
Unmounting ASMlib driver filesystem:                       [  OK  ]
Unloading module "oracleasm":                              [  OK  ]
Loading module "oracleasm":                                [  OK  ]
Mounting ASMlib driver filesystem:                         [  OK  ]
Scanning system for ASM disks:                             [  OK  ]
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk ASMDISK01 ASMDISK02
Disk "ASMDISK01" is a valid ASM disk on device [120, 1]
Disk "ASMDISK02" is a valid ASM disk on device [120, 17]
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# ############### THATABOY
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]#
[root@tlxkrdbrr1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm
#
# This is a configuration file for automatic loading of the Oracle
# Automatic Storage Management library kernel driver.  It is generated
# By running /etc/init.d/oracleasm configure.  Please use that method
# to modify this file
#

# ORACLEASM_ENABELED: 'true' means to load the driver on boot.
ORACLEASM_ENABLED=true

# ORACLEASM_UID: Default user owning the /dev/oracleasm mount point.
ORACLEASM_UID=oracle

# ORACLEASM_GID: Default group owning the /dev/oracleasm mount point.
ORACLEASM_GID=oinstall

# ORACLEASM_SCANBOOT: 'true' means fix disk perms on boot
ORACLEASM_SCANBOOT=true

# ORACLEASM_CLEARBOOT: 'true' means clean old disk perms on boot
ORACLEASM_CLEARBOOT=true

# ORACLEASM_SCANORDER: Matching patterns to order disk scanning
#ORACLEASM_SCANORDER=dm
ORACLEASM_SCANORDER=emcpower

# ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE: Matching patterns to exclude disks from scan
ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE=

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