I will create three asm disks for GRID, FRA and DATA on Oracle Linux 6.3 on VMware.

Asm disks will be GRID sdc, DATA sdd, FRA sde. Partition the Disks List Disks [root@test01 dev]# ls sd* sda sda1 sda2 sdb sdb1 sdc sdd sde For 1. Disk [root@test01 dev]# fdisk /dev/sdc Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content wont be recoverable. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1305. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Warning: invalid flag 00000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-1305, default 1): Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1305, default 1305): Using default value 1305 Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks. For 2. Disk [root@test01 dev]# fdisk /dev/sdd Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content wont be recoverable.

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1305. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Warning: invalid flag 00000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-1305, default 1): Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1305, default 1305): Using default value 1305 Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks. For 3. Disk [root@test01 dev]# fdisk /dev/sde Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content wont be recoverable. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1305. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Warning: invalid flag 00000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1

First cylinder (1-1305, default 1): Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1305, default 1305): Using default value 1305 Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks. List Disks [root@test01 dev]# ls sd* sda sda1 sda2 sdb sdb1 sdc sdc1 sdd sdd1 sde sde1 You have to install oracleasmlib, oracleasm-support and oracleasm rpm packages for asm disk create. Configure OracleAsm on First Node [root@test01 ~]# 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 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 []: asmadmin Start Oracle ASM library driver on boot (y/n) [n]: y Fix permissions of Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n) [y]: y Writing Oracle Asm library driver configuration: done [root@test01 ~]# oracleasm init Creating /dev/oracleasm mount point: /dev/oracleasm Loading module oracleasm: oracleasm Mounting ASMlib driver filesystem: /dev/oracleasm [root@test01 ~]# oracleasm status Checking if ASM is loaded: yes Checking if /dev/oracleasm is mounted: yes

Configure OracleAsm on Second Node [root@test02 ~]# 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 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 []: asmadmin Start Oracle ASM library driver on boot (y/n) [n]: y Fix permissions of Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n) [y]: y Writing Oracle Asm library driver configuration: done [root@test02 ~]# oracleasm init Creating /dev/oracleasm mount point: /dev/oracleasm Loading module oracleasm: oracleasm Mounting ASMlib driver filesystem: /dev/oracleasm [root@test02 ~]# oracleasm status Checking if ASM is loaded: yes Checking if /dev/oracleasm is mounted: yes Create Asm Disks on First Node [root@test01 ~]# oracleasm createdisk GRID1 /dev/sdc1 Writing disk header: done Instantiating disk: done [root@test01 ~]# oracleasm createdisk DATA1 /dev/sdd1 Writing disk header: done Instantiating disk: done [root@test01 ~]# oracleasm createdisk FRA1 /dev/sde1 Writing disk header: done Instantiating disk: done [root@test01 ~]# oracleasm listdisks DATA1 FRA1 GRID1 Scan Asm Disks on Second Node [root@test02 ~]# oracleasm scandisks Reloading disk partitions: done Cleaning any stale ASM disks

Scanning system for ASM disks [root@test02 ~]# oracleasm listdisks DATA1 FRA1 GRID1