RE: CVU reporting error when checking for ASM storage

From: Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:09:48 +0000
Message-ID: <AF02C941134B1A4AB5F61A726D08DCED0E136696_at_USA7109MB012.na.xerox.net>

I would like to add that I got the same CVU error when I tried the same command on a partitioned disk. I am not sure if I am the only one who has seen this CVU error or others have also encountered it.

From: Riyaj Shamsudeen [mailto:riyaj.shamsudeen_at_gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:29 PM To: david.barbour1_at_gmail.com
Cc: Hameed, Amir; dmarc-noreply_at_freelists.org; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: CVU reporting error when checking for ASM storage

There is no requirement to partition the disk, AFAIK, for Grid install. Amir and I worked this problem offline, and it seems that CVU has a bug. Proceeding with that useful "ignore all" button during Grid installation, completes successfully.

However, in Solaris platform, disk must be partitioned though.

Cheers

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On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:26 PM, David Barbour <david.barbour1_at_gmail.com<mailto:david.barbour1_at_gmail.com>> wrote: Amir - You missed what Mladen and Tim are pointing out. /dev/<whatever>/dm-50 is a block device. What Mladen refers to as "scusify", Tim shows with the output:

udev_rules_get_name: add symlink 'disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:0d.0-scsi-1:0:0:0-part1'

Partition the disk using parted or (deprecated) fdisk. You can make the name available either through udev rules or via friendly names in the multipath.conf file.

By the way - welcome back Mladen.

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com<mailto:Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com>> wrote: Thanks Mladen.
I am following Red Hat’s note https://access.redhat.com/solutions/272153 titled “How to create Oracle ASM disks using DM Multipath devices in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?” to define UDEV rules on block devices. What Tim has documented uses SCSI device names in the rule instead of Device Mapper. This is the first time I am doing ASM. I am going to carry on with the installation to see how it goes and it might be an issue with CVU. This is what is listed in Red Hat’s document.

1. udevadm info --query=all --name=/dev/mapper/mpathN |grep -i DM_UUID
2. ACTION=="add|change", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-<UUID>", SYMLINK+="oracleasm/asm01", GROUP="dba", OWNER="oracle", MODE="0660"

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>] On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 2:47 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: Re: CVU reporting error when checking for ASM storage

Amir, you cannot just add Linux block devices to ASM. You need to "scsify" them. The best brief description is on Tim Hall's ORACLE-BASE site:

http://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/udev-scsi-rules-configuration-in-oracle-linux-5-and-6.php

On 01/16/2015 02:00 PM, Hameed, Amir wrote: Hi,
I am installing Oracle Grid 12.1.0.2 on RHEL 6.5. When the Prerequisite Checks phase of OUI, it reported PRVF -5150 on ASM disks. When run CVU on the ASM disks, it reports an error as shown below. Below is an out from CVU with debugging enabled when it was run for one RAC node only: CV_TRACELOC=/tmp/cvutrace
./runcluvfy.sh comp ssa -n <node-name> -s /dev/oracleasm/grid/asmgrid02

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Verifying shared storage accessibility

Checking shared storage accessibility...

ERROR: /dev/oracleasm/grid/asmgrid02
Storage operation failed

Shared storage check failed on nodes "usa0300lx566"

Verification of shared storage accessibility was unsuccessful on all the specified nodes.

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The CVU trace file shows the following error: OUTPUT><CV_ERR><SLOS_LOC>CVU00101</SLOS_LOC><SLOS_OP></SLOS_OP><SLOS_CAT>OTHEROS</SLOS_CAT><SLOS_OTHERINFO>Cannot locate disk for '/dev/dm-50'</SLOS_OTHERINFO></CV_ERR><CV_VRES>0</CV_VRES><CV_LOG>Exectask:getstorage success.</CV_LOG><CV_CMDLOG><CV_INITCMD>/tmp/CVU_12.1.0.2.0_oracle/exectask -getstorage /dev/oracleasm/grid/asmgrid02 </CV_INITCMD><CV_CMD>realpath /dev/oracleasm/grid/asmgrid02</CV_CMD><CV_CMDOUT> /dev/dm-50</CV_CMDOUT><CV_CMDSTAT>0</CV_CMDSTAT><CV_CMD>stat /dev/dm-50</CV_CMD><CV_CMDOUT> stat.st_mode:61B0</CV_CMDOUT><CV_CMDSTAT>0</CV_CMDSTAT><CV_CMD>fopen /proc/partitions</CV_CMD><CV_CMDOUT> 8 0 291991552 sda

I am using udev rules and the rule defined is shown below: ACTION=="add|change", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-360000970000192606068533031464134", SYMLINK+="oracleasm/grid/asmgrid02", GROUP="asmadmin", OWNER="oracle", MODE="0660"

The Device alias exists as shown below:
$ ls -ltr /dev/oracleasm/grid/asmgrid02

The multipath device has proper permissions set: cd /dev/oracleasm/grid
$ ls -ltr

total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 16 13:37 asmgrid02 -> ../../dm-50

$ ls -ltr ../../dm-50

brw-rw---- 1 oracle asmadmin 253, 50 Jan 16 13:37 ../../dm-50

Any idea what might be wrong here?

Thanks,
Amir

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