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
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Log in as oracle.
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If the Oracle database is running, then shutdown the Oracle database.
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Verify that /opt/VRTSodm/lib64/libodm.so exists.
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Link Oracle's ODM library present in ORACLE_HOME with Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager library:
For Oracle10g:
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Change to the $ORACLE_HOME/lib directory, enter:
# cd $ORACLE_HOME/lib
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Take backup of libodm10.so, enter.
# mv libodm10.so libodm10.so.oracle-'date '+%m_%d_%y-%H_%M_%S''
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Link libodm10.so with Veritas ODM library, enter:
# ln -s /opt/VRTSodm/lib64/libodm.so libodm10.so
For Oracle11g:
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Change to the $ORACLE_HOME/lib directory, enter:
# cd $ORACLE_HOME/lib
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Take backup of libodm11.so, enter.
# mv libodm11.so libodm11.so.oracle-'date '+%m_%d_%y-%H_%M_%S''
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Link libodm11.so with Veritas ODM library, enter:
# ln -s /opt/VRTSodm/lib64/libodm.so libodm11.so
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Start the Oracle database.
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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.