Master Note for Automatic Storage Management (ASM) [ID 1187723.1]

This Master Note is intended to provide an index and references to the most frequently used My Oracle Support Notes with respect to Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) environments. This Master Note is subdivided into categories to allow for easy access and reference to notes that are applicable to your area of interest. This includes the following categories:

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Concepts and Overview
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Installation
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Configuration
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Administration
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Migration and Upgrade
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Monitoring
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Troubleshooting and Debugging
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Best Practices
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Versions and Patches
ASMLIB
Database Machine, Exadata Storage Server and RAC Documentation
Using My Oracle Support Effectively
Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) provides a virtualization layer between the database and storage. It treats multiple disks as a single disk group, and lets you dynamically add or remove disks while keeping databases online. ASM greatly simplifies the storage complexities often associated with an Oracle database while increasing availability and performance of the database.

This note applies to the following versions of these products:

Oracle Automatic Storage Management Version 10.1 to 11.2

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Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Alerts:

Alert: Querying v$asm_file Gives ORA-15196 After ASM Was Upgraded From 10gR2 To 11gR2 (Doc ID 1145365.1)

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Concepts and Overview:

ASM Concepts Quick Overview (Doc ID 1086199.1)

New Feature on ASM (Automatic Storage Manager). (Doc ID 249992.1)

11g ASM New Feature (Doc ID 429098.1)

11g ASM New Features Technical White Paper (Doc ID 551205.1)

ASM - Scalability and Limits (Doc ID 370921.1)

ASM 11g New Features - How ASM Disk Resync Works. (Doc ID 466326.1)

How does ASM work with RAID where striping and mirroring are already built-in? (Doc ID 330398.1)

Can External Tables Be Placed inside ASM diskgroups? (Doc ID 470989.1)

Oracle ASM and Multi-Pathing Technologies (Doc ID 294869.1)

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Installation:

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Troubleshooting and Debugging:

To effectively manage Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM), it is important to know how to monitor, troubleshoot and collect data, both for your own diagnosis, and also to provide supporting information when logging a service request. The following Notes will give you information on how to do both:

Notes about Troubleshooting and Data Collection for Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Environments:

How To Detect Open ASM disk or File Descriptors Thru ASM using asmcmd (Doc ID 1307527.1)
Collecting The Required Information For Support To Troubleshot ASM/ASMLIB Issues. (Doc ID 869526.1)
Diagnosing Disk not getting discovered in ASM (Doc ID 311926.1)
How to dump a block within ASM (Doc ID 280636.1)
How To Gather/Backup ASM Metadata In A Formatted Manner? (Doc ID 470211.1)
How to trace CSS at OS level in Windows to diagnose OracleCSService issues (Doc ID 833811.1)
Information to gather when diagnosing ASM space issues (Doc ID 351117.1)
Placeholder for AMDU binaries and using with ASM 10g (Doc ID 553639.1)
TROUBLESHOOTING - ASM disk not found/visible/discovered issues (Doc ID 452770.1)
Troubleshooting ASMLIB on Linux (Doc ID 269194.1)
What to Check If The Cluster Synchronization Service Daemon (OCSSD) Does not Start (Doc ID 315125.1)
OS Watcher User Guide (Doc ID 301137.1)
11g How to Unpack a Package in to ADR (Doc ID 745960.1)
11g Quick Steps to Package and Send Critical Error Diagnostic Information to Support (Doc ID 443529.1)
11g Understanding Automatic Diagnostic Repository (Doc ID 422893.1)
Remote Diagnostics Agent (RDA) (Doc ID 314422.1)
What Is The Difference Between RDA and Configuration Manager (Doc ID 726446.1)
Using Diagwait as a Diagnostic. (Doc ID 559365.1)
External Support FTP site: Information Sheet (Doc ID 77483.1)

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Best Practices:

ASM Technical Best Practices (Doc ID 265633.1)

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Versions and Patches:

Below are some references speaking about the versions maintenance relative to Automatic Storage Management (ASM) .

Oracle Clusterware - ASM - Database Version Compatibility (Doc ID 337737.1)
11.2.0.2 Patchset Location For Grid Infrastructure And RDBMS. (Doc ID 1223673.1)
HOW TO INSTALL A PATCH ON CLUSTERWARE 11.2.0.1 INTO GRID INFRASTRUCTURE HOME (Doc ID 1054439.1)
Patch 8402551 Is Not Available (Doc ID 960875.1)
What is ocssd.bin ? How To Stop/Start This Process To Apply A Patch in non-RAC? (Doc ID 311647.1)
Which ORACLE_HOME need to be patched with Patch 6051728 (Doc ID 457914.1)
What is the OS user for Oracle Cluster Synchronization Service in 10.2.0.5 on AIX? (Doc ID 1291507.1)

ASMLIB:

FAQ ASMLIB CONFIGURE,VERIFY, TROUBLESHOOT (Doc ID 359266.1)
ASMLIB Installation Demo & ASMLIB Troubleshooting (Doc ID 726915.1)
How To Install ASMLIB API via the Unbreakable Linux Network (Doc ID 461718.1)
Other ASMLIB Notes

Database Machine, Exadata Storage Server and RAC Documentation:

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is an evolution in file system and volume management functionality for Oracle database files. ASM further enhances automation and simplicity in storage management that is critical to the success of the Oracle grid architecture. ASM also improves file system scalability and performance, manageability and database availability for RAC environments. Use of ASM with RAC is an Oracle Best Practice.

Master Note for Oracle Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server (Doc ID 1187674.1)

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is a cluster database with a shared cache architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing and shared-disk approaches to provide a highly scalable and available database solution for all your business applications. Oracle RAC provides the foundation for enterprise grid computing.

Master Note for Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Grid Infrastructure (Doc ID 1096952.1)

Using My Oracle Support Effectively:

My Oracle Support Configuration Management FAQ (Doc ID 747242.5)
My Oracle Support Health Checks Catalog (Doc ID 868955.1)
Working Effectively With Global Customer Support (Doc ID 166650.1)
Escalating Service Requests with Oracle Support Services (Doc ID 199389.1)

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NOTE:558508.1 - How to Change ASM Home on a Node in RAC
NOTE:559365.1 - Using Diagwait as a diagnostic to get more information for diagnosing Oracle Clusterware Node evictions
NOTE:563048.1 - How To Drop and Recreate ASM Diskgroup
NOTE:1171674.1 - How to change ownership and group memberships of Grid home in 11.2 Standalone
NOTE:567508.1 - How To Migrate ASMLIB Devices To Block Devices (Non-ASMLIB)?
NOTE:580133.1 - How To Automate ASM Startup and Shutdown on AIX 5L?
NOTE:580153.1 - How To Setup ASM on Linux Using ASMLIB Disks, Raw Devices, Block Devices or UDEV Devices?
NOTE:602620.1 - ASM Using OS Files Instead of Real Raw Devices On Windows.
NOTE:602952.1 - How To Setup ASM & ASMLIB On Native Linux Multipath Mapper disks?
NOTE:603210.1 - How To Identify If A Disk/Partition Is Still Used By ASM, Has Been Used by ASM Or Has Not Been Used by ASM (Unix/Linux)?
NOTE:605569.1 - Upgrading ASM instance from 10g to 11gR1 on Single Node Environment
NOTE:726446.1 - What Is The Difference Between RDA and Oracle Configuration Manager?
NOTE:726915.1 - ASMLIB Installation Demo & ASMLIB Troubleshooting
NOTE:729878.1 - How to Increase CSS Misscount in single instance ASM installations
NOTE:731775.1 - How To Create ASM Diskgroups using NFS/NAS Files?
NOTE:351117.1 - Information to gather when diagnosing ASM space issues
NOTE:351866.1 - How To Reclaim Asm Disk Space?
NOTE:1307527.1 - How To Detect Open ASM disk or File Descriptors Thru ASM using asmcmd
NOTE:166650.1 - Working Effectively With Support Best Practices
NOTE:279353.1 - Multiple 10g Oracle Home installation - ASM
NOTE:552082.1 - Script. to report the list of files stored in ASM and CURRENTLY NOT OPENED
NOTE:553639.1 - Placeholder for AMDU binaries and using with ASM 10g
NOTE:557348.1 - How To Add a New Disk(s) to An Existing Diskgroup on RAC (Best Practices).
NOTE:311619.1 - How to resize a physical disk or LUN and an ASM DISKGROUP
NOTE:311647.1 - What is ocssd.bin ? How To Stop/Start This Process To Apply A Patch in non-RAC?
NOTE:563362.1 - How To Change The Asm Rebalancing Power After Starting The Rebalancing Process
NOTE:564993.1 - How to rename/move a datafile in the same ASM diskgroup
NOTE:566676.1 - How To Determinate If An EMCPOWER Partition Is Valid For ASMLIB?
NOTE:566941.1 - How To Extract Datapump File From ASM Diskgroup To Local Filesystem?
NOTE:332853.1 - Where Can You obtain the ASMCMD command for Oracle Server 10.1
NOTE:331661.1 - How to Re-configure Asm DiskGroup?
NOTE:337737.1 - Oracle Clusterware - ASM - Database Version Compatibility
NOTE:744237.1 - DBCA in Silent mode with ASM

NOTE:745271.1 - How To Reconfigure the Cluster Synchronization Service (CSS) on Non-RAC & Trace It (Linux/Unix)?
NOTE:745960.1 - 11g How to Unpack a Package in to ADR
NOTE:750016.1 - Corrective Action for ASM Diskgroup with Disks Having PVIDs on AIX
NOTE:1082943.1 - How to move ASM spfile to a different disk group
NOTE:1084186.1 - Database Creation on 11.2 Grid Infrastructure with Role Separation ( ORA-15025, KFSG-00312, ORA-15081 )
NOTE:1086199.1 - ASM Concepts Quick Overview
NOTE:1145365.1 - Alert: Querying V$ASM_FILE Gives ORA-15196 After ASM Was Upgraded From 10gR2 To 11gR2 with an AU size > 1M
NOTE:331796.1 - How to setup ASM on Windows
NOTE:340277.1 - How to connect to ASM instance from a remote client (Oracle Net)
NOTE:341991.1 - CSS and OCR are automatically installed and configured in 10gR1
NOTE:342530.1 - How to remove an ASM instance and its corresponding database(s) on WINDOWS?
NOTE:345180.1 - How to duplicate a controlfile when ASM is involved
NOTE:956049.1 - Is ASM / ACFS 11gR2 (11.2.0.1) Supported On RedHat 4 / OL4 Linux?
NOTE:946213.1 - How To Add Back An ASM Disk or Failgroup (Normal or High Redundancy) After A Transient Failure Occurred (11.1 & 10.2) Or When The DISK_REPAIR_TIME Attribute Expired (10.1 & 11.2)?
NOTE:973031.1 - Moving ASM spfile to a shared device in RAC
NOTE:960875.1 - Patch 8402551 Is Not Available
NOTE:986740.1 - How to Reconfigure Oracle Restart
NOTE:1054439.1 - HOW TO INSTALL A PATCH ON CLUSTERWARE 11.2.0.1 INTO GRID INFRASTRUCTURE HOME
NOTE:1068788.1 - How to use ASMCA in silent mode to configure ASM for a stand-alone server
NOTE:736121.1 - How To Upgrade ASM from 10.2 to 11.1 (single Instance configuration / Non-RAC)?
NOTE:762674.1 - Does Oracle Support Failover Of Asm Based Instance
NOTE:77483.1 - External Support FTP site: Information Sheet
NOTE:736127.1 - How To Upgrade ASM from 10.2 to 11.1 (RAC)?
NOTE:314422.1 - Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) 4 - Getting Started
NOTE:315125.1 - What to Check If The Cluster Synchronization Service Daemon (OCSSD) Does not Start
NOTE:311926.1 - Diagnosing Disk not getting discovered in ASM
NOTE:330398.1 - How does ASM work with RAID where striping and mirroring are already built-in?
NOTE:329581.1 - How to configure dbconsole to display information from the ASM DISKGROUPS
NOTE:329987.1 - How to upgrade ASM instance from 10.1 to 10.2 (Single Instance)
NOTE:330103.1 - How to move ASM database files from one diskgroup to another ?
NOTE:330414.1 - How to Find the free space in ASM Diskgroups?
NOTE:280636.1 - How to dump a block within ASM
NOTE:249992.1 - New Feature on ASM (Automatic Storage Manager).
NOTE:292348.1 - Setting up ASM on linux with LVM
NOTE:252219.1 - Steps To Migrate/Move a Database From Non-ASM to ASM And Vice-Versa
NOTE:443835.1 - ASM Fast Mirror Resync - Example To Simulate Transient Disk Failure And Restore Disk
NOTE:444812.1 - How To Remove An Empty ASM System Directory
NOTE:452076.1 - How To Change ASM SYS PASSWORD ?
NOTE:946197.1 - Is The 11gR2 (11.2) ASM Feature/Module Included In The Oracle Server (RDBMS) release 11gR2 (11.2)?
NOTE:833811.1 - How to trace CSS at OS level in Windows to diagnose OracleCSService issues
NOTE:836797.1 - Maximum String Size for asm_diskstring Parameter
NOTE:837308.1 - Exact Steps To Migrate ASM Diskgroups To Another SAN/Disk-Array/DAS/etc Without Downtime.
NOTE:946812.1 - How To Create An SYSASM User On Release 11g?
NOTE:948040.1 - How To Rename A Diskgroup On ASM 11gR2?
NOTE:948605.1 - How to rename diskgroup in 10g ASM (Pre-11gR2 release)
NOTE:950200.1 - ASM 11gR2: How To Upgrade An ASM Instance To Release 11gR2 (11.2)? (***Updated***)
NOTE:950730.1 - Can You Create a Second Voting Disk in a Different ASM Diskgroup When Using External Redundancy in 11.2 ?
NOTE:369824.1 - HOW DO YOU SETUP/REMOVE/MODIFY A CLUSTER SYNCHRONIZATION SERVICE DAEMON (CSSD)?
NOTE:852126.1 - ASM: How To Recreate the ASM Password File on Windows Platforms?
NOTE:396219.1 - Does Oracle ASM 10g On AIX work with RDAC Driver For Ds4800 Disks
NOTE:397238.1 - How to Convert init.cssd as a SMF service for Solaris 10
NOTE:368055.1 - Deployment of very large databases (10TB to PB range) with Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
NOTE:403644.1 - How to get the DBCA to see an ASM instance without the standard +ASM instance name?
NOTE:373426.1 - How To Resize an ASM Disk?
NOTE:371814.1 - Using udev with Oracle Architecture (RAC & ASM) - Red Hat 4.0
NOTE:382680.1 - How to Make Sure that the Raw Devices Have the Right Ownership and Permissions After a Reboot ?
NOTE:470209.1 - How To Resize An ASM Disk On Release 10.2.0.X?
NOTE:470211.1 - How To Gather/Backup ASM Metadata In A Formatted Manner version 10.1, 10.2, 11.1 & 11.2?
NOTE:373242.1 - Lun Size And Performance Impact With Asm
NOTE:1123882.1 - Pattern Matching Metacharacters For asm_diskstring
NOTE:1291507.1 - What is the OS user for Oracle Cluster Synchronization Service in 10.2.0.5 on AIX?
NOTE:1294915.1 - How to Restore OCR After the 1st ASM Diskgroup is Lost on Windows
NOTE:452758.1 - How to Convert a Single-Instance ASM to Cluster ASM
NOTE:452770.1 - TROUBLESHOOTING - ASM disk not found/visible/discovered issues
NOTE:452924.1 - How to Prepare Storage for ASM
NOTE:445037.1 - ASM Fast Rebalance
NOTE:451900.1 - ASMCMD - New commands in 11gR1
NOTE:868955.1 - Get Proactive - Oracle Health Checks - Installation, troubleshooting, catalog and more.
NOTE:824354.1 - How To Trace ASMCMD on Unix
NOTE:869526.1 - Collecting The Required Information For Support To Troubleshot ASM/ASMLIB Issues.
NOTE:885780.1 - What is ASMCA in 11.2g?
NOTE:887658.1 - Reconfigure HAS and CSS for nonRAC ASM on 11.2
NOTE:888943.1 - How to collect the full path name of the files in ASM diskgroups
NOTE:944831.1 - How to Copy Archivelog Files From ASM to Filesystem and vice versa
NOTE:779807.1 - ASM Reads From the Preferred Failure Groups With Compatible.Rdbms=10.2 If RDBMS is 11.1
NOTE:1223673.1 - 11.2.0.2 Patchset Location For Grid Infrastructure And RDBMS.
NOTE:1269158.1 - Redo Log Striping In 11.2 ASM, is Coarse Or Fine?
NOTE:1096952.1 - Master Note for Real Application Clusters (RAC) Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Grid Infrastructure
NOTE:1098682.1 - How to map device name to ASMLIB disk
NOTE:1274629.1 - Pre-requisite for 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 ASM Rolling Upgrade
NOTE:1112993.1 - How to configure local_listener parameter with ASMCA
NOTE:1290550.1 - How To Create An ASM Diskgroup Using XML code Thru ASMCMD?
NOTE:788267.1 - ASM: Oracle 11g ASM Installation On LINUX.
NOTE:788273.1 - ASM Upgrade From Release 10g To 11gR1 (11.1).
NOTE:818171.1 - How to identify files with imbalanced allocation in an ASM diskgroup
NOTE:579468.1 - How To Migrate From OCFS To ASM
NOTE:457914.1 - Which ORACLE_HOME need to be patched with Patch 6051728
NOTE:458419.1 - How to Bind RAW devices to Physical Partitions on Linux to be used by ASM
NOTE:461718.1 - How To Install ASMLIB API via the Unbreakable Linux Network
NOTE:466231.1 - Does Asm Survive Change Of Disc Path?
NOTE:785580.1 - How to Copy asm files between remote ASM instances using ASMCMD command
NOTE:370921.1 - ASM - Scalability and Limits
NOTE:357261.1 - How to remove an ASM instance and its corresponding database(s) on UNIX
NOTE:357714.1 - How to configure XDB for using ftp and http protocols with ASM
NOTE:359266.1 - FAQ ASMLIB CONFIGURE,VERIFY, TROUBLESHOOT
NOTE:367445.1 - Script. to Report the Percentage of Imbalance in all Mounted Diskgroups
NOTE:1212079.1 - How v$recovery_file_dest.space_used is calculated from v$asm_file.bytes in ASM
NOTE:1092213.1 - ASM 11.2 Configuration KIT (ASM 11gR2 Installation & Configuration, Deinstallation, Upgrade, ASM Job Role Separation (Standalone Only).
NOTE:1090304.1 - Compare The Load Of Each Of The Databases That Asm Is Servicing
NOTE:1187674.1 - Master Note for Oracle Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server
NOTE:1206884.1 - How To Pass A Password Into The Asmcmd CP Command?
NOTE:1217673.1 - Unable To Open Database After ASM Upgrade From Release 11.1 To Release 11.2.
NOTE:468136.1 - Is it possible to mount a diskgroup created in 10.2.0.3 with a 10.2.0.2 ASM instance?
NOTE:468458.1 - How To Move Controlfile To ASM
NOTE:469082.1 - How To Setup ASM (10.2) on Windows Platforms
NOTE:453689.1 - How To Run Database Instance Service Under Domain Account When Using ASM?
NOTE:428893.1 - How to copy a datafile from ASM to a file system not using RMAN
NOTE:429098.1 - 11gR1 ASM New Feature
NOTE:437312.1 - How to delete the ASM files when the database is hanging?
NOTE:437915.1 - How to Manually Configure the Database Control for the Database and ASM Instances (Silent Mode)?
NOTE:437996.1 - ASMIOSTAT Script. to collect iostats for ASM disks
NOTE:438289.1 - Can Database Instances (using ASM as storage option) Be Handled Using a Non-Oracle user
NOTE:466326.1 - ASM 11g New Features - How ASM Disk Resync Works.
NOTE:311350.1 - How to cleanup ASM installation (RAC and Non-RAC)
NOTE:393492.1 - Can DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER be used to upload text files into ASM ?
NOTE:394798.1 - How to Create Transportable Tablespaces Where the Source and Destination are ASM-Based
NOTE:438580.1 - How To Move The Database To Different Diskgroup (Change Diskgroup Redundancy)
NOTE:443529.1 - Database 11g: Quick Steps to Package and Send Critical Error Diagnostic Information to Support [Video]
NOTE:470573.1 - How To Delete the SPFILE In The +ASM DISKGROUP And Recreate It In The $ORACLE_HOME Directory?
NOTE:470989.1 - Can External Tables Be Placed inside ASM diskgroups?
NOTE:473697.1 - How To Start CSS, ASM Instance & DB Instance Services On Windows Thru The OS Command Prompt.
NOTE:551205.1 - 11g ASM New Features Technical White Paper
NOTE:265633.1 - ASM Technical Best Practices For 10g and 11gR1 Release
NOTE:266079.1 - OCSSD.BIN Process is Running in a Non-RAC Environment
NOTE:268481.1 - Steps to Recreate ASM Diskgroups
NOTE:269194.1 - Troubleshooting ASMLIB on Linux
NOTE:270066.1 - Manage ASM instance-creating diskgroup,adding/dropping/resizing disks.
NOTE:274738.1 - Creating an ASM-enabled Database
NOTE:294727.1 - Extracting Datafile Blocks From ASM
NOTE:294869.1 - Oracle ASM and Multi-Pathing Technologies
NOTE:300472.1 - How To Delete Archive Log Files Out Of +Asm?
NOTE:301137.1 - OSWatcher Black Box (Includes: [Video])
NOTE:751300.1 - How to perform. Rolling Upgrade/Downgrade in 11g ASM
NOTE:418542.1 - How to rename ASM disks?
NOTE:421827.1 - How To Create manually an ASM Instance From Scratch
NOTE:422729.1 - How to change the Hostname when Oracle 10G and ASM are used
NOTE:422893.1 - 11g Understanding Automatic Diagnostic Repository.
NOTE:332180.1 - ASMCMD - ASM command line utility
NOTE:332848.1 - How to remove unused copy of the controlfile from the ASM disks?
NOTE:413360.1 - Create SPFILE Under ASM

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