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20 Deployment Guide
3 On all the nodes, perform the following steps:
a Edit the /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices file and add the following lines for a Fibre Channel cluster:
/dev/raw/votingdisk /dev/emcpowera1
/dev/raw/ocr.dbf /dev/emcpowera2
/dev/raw/spfile+ASM.ora /dev/emcpowera3
b Ty p e udevstart to create the RAW devices.
c Ty p e service rawdevices restart to restart the RAW Devices Service.
NOTE: If the three partitions on PowerPath pseudo devices are not consistent across the nodes, modify your
/dev/sysconfig/rawdevices configuration file accordingly.
Configuring Shared Storage for the Database Using ASM
This section provides procedures for configuring the shared storage using ASM.
NOTE: Before you configure the ASM Library Driver, disable SELinux.
To temporarily disable SELinux, perform the following steps:
1
Log in as root .
2 At the command prompt, type:
setenforce 0
To permanently disable SELinux, perform the following steps on all the nodes:
1
Open your grub.conf file.
2 Locate the kernel command line and append the following option:
selinux=0
For example:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELlargesmp ro root=LABEL=/ apic rhgb quiet
selinux=0
3 Reboot your system.
To configure your cluster using ASM, perform the following steps on all nodes:
1
Log in as root .
2 On all the nodes, create one partition on each of the other two external storage devices with the fdisk utility:
a Ty p e fdisk /dev/emcpowerx and create a primary partition for the entire device.
Ty p e
h for help within the fdisk utility.
b Ty p e cat /proc/partitions to verify that the new partition exists.
If you do not see the new partition, type:
sfdisk -R /dev/<device name>
NOTE: Configure the shared storage using either the RAW device interface or the Oracle ASM library driver.