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Creating file system or volume for SRVM

The Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) requires you to specify a location for the SRVM configuration file during the Oracle installation. The Server Control tool (srvctl) and Oracle Enterprise Manager use the SRVM configuration file. Symantec recommends creating a location for the configuration file to enable you to use the tools supplied by Oracle. The SRVM configuration file is a standalone volume or file system.

 To create a raw volume for SRVM (option 1)

1. On the master node, create a shared disk group on a shared disk using the VxVM name of the disk, such as EMC0_1 or IBM_SHARK_5. This procedure assumes you are creating the srvm_vol volume of 300 MB in the orasrvdg shared disk group on the EMC0_1 disk:

   # vxdg -s init orasrvdg EMC0_1

   For information about listing disks on the system and finding their VxVM disk names, refer to Verifying the nodes see the same disk.

2. Create the volume in the shared disk group:

   # vxassist -g orasrvdg make orasrvvol 300M

3. Set the ownership and permissions for the volume:

   # vxedit -g orasrvdg set user=oracle group=dba
mode=660 orasrvvol

 To create a cluster file system for SRVM (option 2)

1. On any node, create a VxFS file system for SRVM on the shared volume created for this purpose (see previous section). For example, create the file system on orasrvvol:

   # mkfs -V vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/orasrvdg/orasrvvol

2. On each node, create the mount point for the file system:

   # mkdir /orasrv

3. On each node, mount the file system using the device file for the block device:

   # mount -V vxfs -o cluster \

   /dev/vx/dsk/orasrvdg/orasrvvol /orasrv

4. On only one of the nodes, change the ownership again:

   # chown -R oracle:dba /orasrv