As promised in an earlier post here are my notes about installing Oracle Restart with ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD) 19c on Oracle Linux 7 using UEK 5. Update 210812: I successfully used the same approach for Oracle Linux 7.9/UEK 6. Since the approach you are about to read isn’t explicitly covered in the documentation I […]
In my previous post I shared my surprise when I learned that calling gridSetup.sh 19c for use with Oracle ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD) required me to specify the names of the native block devices. This is definitely different from installing ASM with ASMLib where you pass ASM disks as “ORCL:diskname” to the installer. Um, that’s […]
As promised in the earlier post here are my notes about installing Oracle Restart 19c on Oracle Linux 7.7 using the RedHat compatible kernel (RHCK). Please consult the ACFS/ASMFD compatibility matrix, My Oracle Support DocID 1369107.1 for the latest information about ASMFD compatibility with various kernels as well. Why am I starting the series with […]
Oracle 19c is has been getting a lot of traction recently, and I have been researching various aspects around its installation and use. One topic that came up recently was the installation of Oracle Restart 19c using ASM Filter Driver. ASM Filter Driver has been around for a little while, but I never really looked […]
Clumsy title but a problem that can slow you down. When creating ASM disk groups, you might not succeed, ASM complains with ORA-15186. UPDATE 221106: Oracle Linux 5/RedHat 5 and Oracle 11.2 are effectively out of support, this article is now archived and should not be referred to. ASM Filter Driver supersedes ASMLib, I have […]
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