Configuring Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager
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Configuring Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager

If ORACLE_HOME is on a shared file system, run the following commands from any node, otherwise run them on each node.

where ORACLE_HOME is the location where Oracle database binaries have been installed.

To configure Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager

  1. Log in as oracle.

  2. If the Oracle database is running, then shutdown the Oracle database.

  3. Verify that /opt/VRTSodm/lib64/libodm.so exists.

  4. Link Oracle's ODM library present in ORACLE_HOME with Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager library:

    For Oracle10g:

    • Change to the $ORACLE_HOME/lib directory, enter:

      # cd $ORACLE_HOME/lib

    • Take backup of libodm10.so, enter.

      # mv libodm10.so libodm10.so.oracle-'date '+%m_%d_%y-%H_%M_%S''

    • Link libodm10.so with Veritas ODM library, enter:

      # ln -s /opt/VRTSodm/lib64/libodm.so libodm10.so

    For Oracle11g:

    • Change to the $ORACLE_HOME/lib directory, enter:

      # cd $ORACLE_HOME/lib

    • Take backup of libodm11.so, enter.

      # mv libodm11.so libodm11.so.oracle-'date '+%m_%d_%y-%H_%M_%S''

    • Link libodm11.so with Veritas ODM library, enter:

      # ln -s /opt/VRTSodm/lib64/libodm.so libodm11.so

  5. Start the Oracle database.

  6. To confirm that the Oracle database starts with Veritas Extension for ODM, the alert log will contain the following text:

    Veritas <version> ODM Library

    where 5.1.00.00 is the ODM library version shipped with the product.

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