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Oracle ASM - Setup on disk array - Assitance required

user13283765Jul 23 2010 — edited Jul 24 2010
Hello All,

I'm trying to setup ASM on an dell MD1000 with 15 disks. I've never done this and have no system administrator at my disposal. I understand that I must create a partition, or two since I want to use two diskgroups DATA & RECOVERY.

No I'm completely lost and would appreciate any help I can get, this a pretty urgent matter.
Pretty much have not clue what I'm doing.

ENV:
Server: Dell R710
Array: MD1000 x 15 disks 73GB
OS: RedHat Linux 5 Enterprise Linux
RAM: 16 GB 
Here is what I've done so far:
- I deleted all the virtual disks configured on the array.

- Installed ASMlib
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:oracleasm-support      ########################################### [ 33%]
   2:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.8.########################################### [ 67%]
   3:oracleasmlib           ########################################### [100%]
- fdisk -l gives me the following output
[root@PHAETON2 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 146.1 GB, 146163105792 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17769 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       15346   123266713+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2           15347       17386    16386300   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3           17387       17768     3068415   83  Linux
- ls -la on /dev gives me
[....] sda sda1
sda2 sda3
sg0 sg1
sg2 sg2
From what I can tell, SDA are the on-board disks and not the disks on the disk array. Can anybody tell me how to make make the partition for the two diskgroups i want DATA and RECOVER.

Thank you in advance for any assitance.

Jan
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