Enabling Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) devices for use with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

Enable DMP support for ASM to make DMP devices visible to ASM as available disks.

To make DMP devices visible to ASM

  1. From ASM, make sure ASM_DISKSTRING is set to the value /dev/vx/rdmp/*.
    SQL> show parameter ASM_DISKSTRING;
    	NAME                 TYPE        VALUE
    	-------------------- ----------- ---------------
    	asm_diskstring       string      /dev/vx/rdmp/*
  2. As root user, enable DMP devices for use with ASM.
    # vxdmpraw enable username groupname [devicename ...]

    For example:

    # vxdmpraw enable oracle dba eva4k6k0_1
  3. From ASM, confirm that ASM can see these new devices.
    SQL> select name,path,header_status from v$asm_disk;
    
    		NAME	PATH	HEADER_STATU
    		---------------------------------------------------
    		...	.......					....
    			/dev/vx/rdmp/eva4k6k0_1			CANDIDATE
    		...	.......					....