Sunday 24 March 2019

ACFS on Exadata


Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (ACFS) on Exadata Database Machine:

Starting with Oracle Grid Infrastructure version 12.1.0.2, Oracle ACFS supports all database files and general purpose files on Oracle Exadata Database Machine running Oracle Linux on database servers.

The following database versions are supported by Oracle ACFS on Exadata Database Machine:

  • Oracle Database 10g Rel. 2 (10.2.0.4 and 10.2.0.5)
  • Oracle Database 11g (11.2.0.4 and higher)
  • Oracle Database 12c (12.1.0.1 and higher)
The below steps are duly tested in Exadata X7 machines

Pre-requisite for ACFS creation

  1. Verify if ACFS/ADVM module is loaded ( oracleacfs & oracleadvm )

dcli -g /home/oracle/dbs_group -l oracle 'lsmod | grep oracle'

 

Step by step instruction to create ACFS on Exadata

 

  1. As ORAGRID : Create ASM volume to be used for ACFS file systems on FLASH01 DG
     

asmcmd volcreate -G FLASH01 -s 10G acfsvol
 

 

 

        2) As ORAGRID:  Capture the volume device name

asmcmd volinfo -G FLASH01 acfsvol

 

For example this case:

 

Diskgroup Name: FLASH01

 

         Volume Name: ACFSVOL

         Volume Device: /dev/asm/acfsvol-118

         State: ENABLED

         Size (MB): 10240

         Resize Unit (MB): 512

         Redundancy: MIRROR

         Stripe Columns: 8

         Stripe Width (K): 1024

         Usage:

         Mountpath: 

 

 

        3) As ORAGRID:  verify if the volume device name created on all the nodes

dcli -g /home/oracle/dbs_group -l oracle ‘s -l /dev/asm/acfsvol-118
 

 

        4) As ORAGRID:  Verify if ADVM is enabled

crsctl stat res ora.FLASH01.ACFSVOL.advm -t

 

For example this case:

 

crsctl stat res ora.FLASH01.ACFSVOL.advm -t

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name           Target  State        Server                   State details

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Local Resources

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ora.FLASH01.ACFSVOL.advm

               ONLINE  ONLINE       fraespou0101             STABLE

               ONLINE  ONLINE       fraespou0102             STABLE

               ONLINE  ONLINE       fraespou0103             STABLE

               ONLINE  ONLINE       fraespou0104             STABLE

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

    

For example this case:

 

 

5) AS ORAGRID:  Create ACFS on ADVM  

/sbin/mkfs -t acfs /dev/asm/acfsvol-321 –b 4K

 

 

 

 6) As root - Create the mount points for the file systems and change ownership

 

dcli -g ~/dbs_group -l root ‘mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/common’
 
dcli -g ~/dbs_group -l root 'chown oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oracle/admin/common’
 
dcli -g ~/dbs_group -l root 'chmod 775 /u01/app/oracle/admin/common’

 

7) As ROOT:  Add filesystem  

/u01/app/oragrid/product/18.0/bin/srvctl add filesystem -d /dev/asm/acfsvol-321 -m /u01/app/oracle/admin/common  -u oracle -fstype ACFS -autostart ALWAYS

 

 

8) As ROOT/Oracle:  Start  filesystem  

/u01/app/oragrid/product/18.0/bin/srvctl start filesystem -d /dev/asm/acfsvol-321

 

 

 

  

Verifications

 

 

9root/oragrid:  Verify if change ownership and permission  

crsctl stat res ora.FLASH01.ACFSVOL.acfs -t

 

crsctl stat res ora.FLASH01.ACFSVOL.advm –t

 

 

 

 

10as Oracle:  list the ACFS FS  from all the nodes  

dcli -g  /home/oracle/dbs_group -l oracle df –h /u01/app/oracle/admin/common

 

 

 

 

 

11as Oracle:  Touch a file on the ACFS FS  from all the nodes  

dcli -g  /home/oracle/dbs_group -l oracle touch /u01/app/oracle/admin/common/a.txt
dcli -g  /home/oracle/dbs_group -l oracle cat /u01/app/oracle/admin/common/a.txt
 

 

 

 

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