We just prepared our OEL8.9 Server with creating the ASM related Software
– oracleasm-support-3.1.0-10.el8.x86_64.rpm
– oracleasmlib-3.1.0-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
and intiated and started the Disks
Than I create the ASM Header
oracleasm createdisk DATA_01 /dev/nvme1n1p1
oracleasm createdisk DATA_02 /dev/nvme2n1p1
oracleasm createdisk DATA_03 /dev/nvme3n1p1
The Disks are shown up e.g.
oracleasm querydisk -p DATA_01
Disk "DATA_01" is a valid ASM disk
/dev/nvme1n1p1: LABEL="DATA_01" TYPE="oracleasm" PARTUUID="9ed68b0e-01"
I set up an responsefile with the following lines:
……
oracle.install.asm.diskGroup.name=DATA
oracle.install.asm.diskGroup.redundancy=EXTERNAL
oracle.install.asm.diskGroup.AUSize=4
oracle.install.asm.diskGroup.diskDiscoveryString=ORCL:*
oracle.install.asm.diskGroup.disks=ORCL:DATA_01,ORCL:DATA_02,ORCL:DATA_03
……
When I run
./gridSetup.sh -silent -responsefile /opt/ansible/response_files/grid.rsp -ignorePrereqFailure
I get:
Launching Oracle Grid Infrastructure Setup Wizard...
[FATAL] [INS-30508] Invalid ASM disks.
CAUSE: The disks [ORCL:DATA_03, ORCL:DATA_01, ORCL:DATA_02] were not valid.
ACTION: Please choose or enter valid ASM disks.
[FATAL] [INS-30515] Insufficient space available in the selected disks.
CAUSE: Insufficient space available in the selected Disks. At least, 32 MB of free space is required.
ACTION: Choose additional disks such that the total size should be at least 32 MB.
Moved the install session logs to:
/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/logs/GridSetupActions2025-08-28_11-55-52AM
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 28 11:38 /dev/disk/by-label/DATA_01 -> ../../nvme1n1p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 28 11:55 /dev/disk/by-label/DATA_02 -> ../../nvme2n1p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 28 11:55 /dev/disk/by-label/DATA_03 -> ../../nvme3n1p1
The devices are lsited for oracle:asmdba which is my grid user setting
ls -l /dev/nvme*
crw------- 1 root root 239, 1 Aug 27 12:36 /dev/nvme1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 0 Aug 27 12:48 /dev/nvme1n1
brw-rw---- 1 oracle asmdba 259, 6 Aug 28 11:38 /dev/nvme1n1p1
crw------- 1 root root 239, 2 Aug 27 12:36 /dev/nvme2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 1 Aug 27 12:48 /dev/nvme2n1
brw-rw---- 1 oracle asmdba 259, 5 Aug 28 11:55 /dev/nvme2n1p1
crw------- 1 root root 239, 3 Aug 27 12:36 /dev/nvme3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 2 Aug 27 12:48 /dev/nvme3n1
brw-rw---- 1 oracle asmdba 259, 8 Aug 28 11:55 /dev/nvme3n1p1
What we do miss ?
I wanted to install Grid Infrastructure to run ASM on that Disk as we have on other machines as well. But mostly we used udev formatted Disks - this time i want to use oracleasm