Hello All,
I want to implement Oracle RAC 11g R2 on AIX 6.1.
I am preparing the prerequisite steps.
My question is regarding ASM.
Do i Have to create disks on my SAN storage, so I can create the ASM disk groups ?
how can I link the disk groups to physical disks ?
I used that before on Linux, but what i did that i create 5 physical disks then created an ASM disk group from these 5 disks ? how should i manage that in AIX?
Another issue:
On Linux I used to do the below:
1. I used the "fdisk" command to partition the disks ? should i do that on AIX? how it can be done?
2. I downloaded the appropriate ASMLib RPM for Linux. Is there anything like that for AIX?
3. I used to configure ASM lib as below :
# oracleasm configure -i
Configuring the Oracle ASM library driver.
This will configure the on-boot properties of the Oracle ASM library
driver. The following questions will determine whether the driver is
loaded on boot and what permissions it will have. The current values
will be shown in brackets ('[]'). Hitting <ENTER> without typing an
answer will keep that current value. Ctrl-C will abort.
Default user to own the driver interface []: grid
Default group to own the driver interface []: dba
Start Oracle ASM library driver on boot (y/n) [n]: y
Scan for Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n) [y]:
Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: done
#
is there any step like that in AIX?
4. I used to create disks like below, How do i do that on AIX?
# /usr/sbin/oracleasm createdisk DISK1 /dev/sdb1
# /usr/sbin/oracleasm scandisks
# /usr/sbin/oracleasm listdisks
Regards,