When an existing ASM disk group uses operating system native devices as disks, you can migrate these devices to Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing control. If the OS devices are controlled by other multi-pathing drivers, this operation requires system downtime to migrate the devices to DMP control.
After this procedure, the ASM disk group uses the migrated DMP devices as its disks.
"From ASM" indicates that you perform the step as the user running the ASM instance.
"As root user" indicates that you perform the step as the root user.
To migrate an ASM disk group from operating system devices to DMP devices
# vxdmpraw enable username groupname [devicename ...]
Where username represents the ASM user running the ASM instance, and groupname represents the UNIX groupname of the specified user-id. If you specify one or more devicenames, DMP support for ASM is enabled for those devices. If you do not specify a devicename, DMP support is enabled for all devices in the system that have an ASM signature.
/dev/vx/rdmp/*
Example: To migrate an ASM disk group from operating system devices to DMP devices
SQL> select name, state from v$asm_diskgroup; NAME STATE ------------------------------ ----------- ASM_DG1 MOUNTED
SQL> select name,path,header_status from v$asm_disk; NAME PATH HEADER_STATU -------------------------------------------- ASM_DG1_0000 /dev/c2t5d9 MEMBER ASM_DG1_0001 /dev/c2t5d1 MEMBER ASM_DG1_0002 /dev/c2t5d3 MEMBER
SQL> alter diskgroup ASM_DG1 dismount; Diskgroup altered. SQL> select name , state from v$asm_diskgroup; NAME STATE ------------------------------ ----------- ASM_DG1 DISMOUNTED
To migrate selected ASM diskgroups, use the vxdmpadm command to determine the DMP nodes that correspond to the OS devices.
# vxdmpadm getdmpnode nodename=c2t5d9 NAME STATE ENCLR-TYPE PATHS ENBL DSBL ENCLR-NAME ======================================================== eva4k6k0_0 ENABLED EVA4K6K 4 4 0 EVA4K6K0
Use the device name in the command below:
# vxdmpraw enable oracle dba eva4k6k0_0 \ eva4k6k0_9 emc_clariion0_243
If you do not specify a devicename, DMP support is enabled for all devices in the disk group that have an ASM signature. For example:
# vxdmpraw enable oracle dba
/dev/vx/rdmp/*
.SQL> alter system set ASM_DISKSTRING='/dev/vx/rdmp/*'; System altered. SQL> show parameter ASM_DISKSTRING; NAME TYPE VALUE -------------------------- --------- ------------------- asm_diskstring string /dev/vx/rdmp/*
SQL> select name,path,header_status from v$asm_disk where header_status='MEMBER'; NAME PATH HEADER_STATU ---------------------------------------------------------- /dev/vx/rdmp/emc_clariion0_243 MEMBER /dev/vx/rdmp/eva4k6k0_9 MEMBER /dev/vx/rdmp/eva4k6k0_1 MEMBER
SQL> alter diskgroup ASM_DG1 mount; Diskgroup altered. SQL> select name, state from v$asm_diskgroup; NAME STATE ------------------------------ ----------- ASM_DG1 MOUNTED
SQL> select name,path,header_status from v$asm_disk where header_status='MEMBER'; NAME PATH HEADER_STATU ----------------------------------------------------------- ASM_DG1_0002 /dev/vx/rdmp/emc_clariion0_243 MEMBER ASM_DG1_0000 /dev/vx/rdmp/eva4k6k0_1 MEMBER ASM_DG1_0001 /dev/vx/rdmp/eva4k6k0_9 MEMBER
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