Veritas Extension for ODM can be enabled from WPAR only when Storage Foundation (SF) is installed in the global environment. For information on installing SF, see the Veritas InfoScale Installation Guide.
To enable ODM file access from WPAR with VxFS
For example:
# mkwpar -n orawpar
For other options while creating WPARs, refer to the IBM Redbook for WPAR.
For example:
/dev/vx/dsk/oradatadg/oradatavol, /dev/vx/dsk/oradatadg/oraarcvol, /dev/vx/dsk/orabindg/orabinvol
For example:
# mkdir -p /wpars/orawpar/oracle/oradata # mkdir -p /wpars/orawpar/oracle/oraarc # mkdir -p /wpars/orawpar/oracle/orabin
For example:
# mount -V vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/oradatadg/oradatavol\ /wpars/orawpar/oracle/oradata # mount -V vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/oradatadg/oraarcvol\ /wpars/orawpar/oracle/oraarc # mount -V vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/orabindg/orabinvol\ /wpars/orawpar/oracle/orabin
/dev/odm
is mounted on the /dev/odm
directory in the global environment.For example:
# mount -V odm /dev/odm /dev/odm
/dev/odm
directory from the global environment using namefs mount. The mount point dev/odm
directory must be created inside the WPAR base directory from the global environment. This step enables ODM file access from WPAR.For example:
# mkdir -p /wpars/orawpar/dev/odm # mount -V namefs /dev/odm /wpars/orawpar/dev/odm # mount (only related with above commands)
Mounted Mounted over vfs date options /dev/odm /dev/odm vxodm Jun 09 17:30 smartsync /dev/vx/dsk/oradatadg/oradatavol /wpars/orawpar/oracle/oradata vxfs Jun 10 14:08 rw,delaylog,suid,ioerror=mwdisable,qio,largefiles /dev/vx/dsk/oradatadg/oraarcvol /wpars/orawpar/oracle/oraarc vxfs Jun 10 14:08 rw,delaylog,suid,ioerror=mwdisable,qio,largefiles /dev/vx/dsk/orabindg/orabinvol /wpars/orawpar/oracle/orabin vxfs Jun 10 14:08 rw,delaylog,suid,ioerror=mwdisable,qio,largefiles /dev/odm /wpars/orawpar/dev/odm namefs Jun 10 14:44 rw
For example:
# clogin orawpar # df -kg
Filesystem GB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on Global 2.00 1.94 3% 4670 2% / Global 1.00 0.99 1% 5 1% /home Global 5.00 3.81 24% 12095 2% /opt Global - - - - - /proc Global 2.00 1.99 1% 70 1% /tmp Global 5.00 2.60 49% 52955 9% /usr Global 2.00 1.98 1% 454 1% /var Global 9.00 8.42 7% 6 1% /oracle/oradata Global 9.00 8.42 7% 4 1% /oracle/oraarc Global 9.00 1.86 80% 39074 8% /oracle/orabin Global 0.00 0.00 -1% 6 100% /dev/odm
See the IBM and Oracle documentation for the detailed information on creating system WPAR and installing Oracle Database server single instance in a system WPAR on AIX.
For example:
# ln -sf /opt/VRTSodm/lib/libodm64.so libodm11.so # ls -lta |grep -i libodm11.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 28 Jun 10 14:51 libodm11.so -> /opt/VRTSodm/lib/libodm64.so
For information on configuring Oracle single instance database, see the Veritas InfoScale Storage and Availability Management for Oracle Databases.