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Step by Step How to Configure Shared Storage for Oracle RAC Using
Openfiler

Monday, December 24, 2018

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Configuring Shared Storage  for Oracle RAC

Using Openfiler

Step1: Install Openfiler Storage Management Appliance. 

You can find Step by step instruction at How to Install OpenFiler Storage

Management Appliance

Step2: Login to Openfiler

Login to your openfiler with username openfiler and Default Password

password.

After  successful Installation of openfiler GUI is accessible at port 446.

https://192.9.1.105:446/

Step3: Add Storage Clients

Navigate to System tab and enter the Name of all the Client Servers who

will Access the storage provided by this openfiler. To save the entry just click

update
Step4: Create and Configure Storage volume

Navigate to Volumes tab and click on the link "create new physical volumes"

You will be navigated to the below page. on this page just select the disk

listed in the Edit Disk column

On this page just click Create

The physical volume is now successfully created

Step5: Create the Volume Group Using Physical Volume Created in

Step4

From right side Volumes Section choose Volumes Group and provide the

Details as shown below and click add volume Group
Step6: Create Volumes in Volume Group

Create Volume on top of your Volume Group. To create Volume choose Add

Volume Option. Enter the required Details as highlighted. and click create

Ensure you are choosing file­system/ Volume type as iSCSI. Create one

Volume selecting all the space.

  After Successful creation of Volume, it will  look like this

Step7: Configure Targets

Go to Volumes Section again and choose iSCSI Targets Option. Choose the

tab Target Configuration

Click on add button and then just click update update to save the IQN target

(do not modify anything on this page. Let everything be default)

Step8: Map The LUN

Go to the tab LUN Mapping and click on Map.

Step9: Allow the LUN discovery on the server

Go to the tab Network ACL and modify the Access field from deny to allow.

That's all you are done with openfiler configuration

That s all you are done with openfiler configuration.

Next step is to discover the configured volume (LUN) on the server

How to Configure Openfiler Client

or

How to discover Openfiler Disk on Target

Server

Step1: Discovering the LUN on Server

Login as root user and execute the below commands

#iscsiadm ­m discovery ­t sendtargets ­p 192.9.1.105

#iscsiadm ­m node ­T iqn.2006­01.com.openfiler:tsn.05d8f0355e34 ­p

192.9.1.105 ­l

#iscsiadm ­m node ­T iqn.2006­01.com.openfiler:tsn.05d8f0355e34 ­p

192.9.1.105 ­­op update ­n node.startup ­v automatic

Note: Change the blue highlighted value from the Output value of iscsiadm ­

m discovery ­t sendtargets ­p 192.9.1.105 command as shown below

Step2: Verify the Disks on the Server

Verify the disk availability on your target Server

The storage volume configured using openfiler is now visible on the server.
 

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