17/10/2020 Oracle 12cR2 Installation on Linux with ASM

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Oracle 12cR2 Installation on Linux

with ASM
In this article we will be looking at Oracle 12c release 2 installation on Oracle Linux 7.6
with ASM. If you already know, Oracle ASM binaries comes with Grid Software!

The steps that we are going to follow are:

1. Installing the Oracle Grid infrastructure

2. Setting up Oracle ASM
3. Installing the Oracle Database Software

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4. Creating the Database on ASM

Install Oracle Grid

Connect to OEL 7.6 server via putty and install the below packages

yum -y install oracle-database-server-12cR2-preinstall

yum -y install oracleasm*
yum -y install kmod-oracleasm*

Add below OS groups

groupadd -g 54327 asmdba

groupadd -g 54328 asmoper
groupadd -g 54329 asmadmin

Add asmdba as secondary group to Oracle user

usermod -a -G asmdba oracle

Create Grid User

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useradd -u 54331 -g oinstall -G dba,asmdba,asmoper,asmadmin,racdba grid

Change the password for Oracle and Grid user

passwd oracle
passwd grid

Let us configure the Oracle ASM

oracleasm configure -i

Default user to own the driver interface []: grid

Default group to own the driver interface []: dba
Start Oracle ASM library driver on boot (y/n) [n]: y
Scan for Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n): y
Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: done

Now we need to load or initiate the Oracle ASM

oracleasm init

Creating /dev/oracleasm mount point: /dev/oracleasm

Loading module “oracleasm”: oracleasm
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Configuring “Oracleasm” to use device physical block size

Mounting ASMlib driver filesystem: /dev/oracleasm

Add 30 GB HDD to virtual machine which we will use to create 3 partitions of 10 GB each
for our ASM disks

Open Virtual machine >> Settings >> Storage >> Controller: SATA >> Create new disk

oracle VM

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Click on Next

Click on Next

Give size 30 GB >> Click on Create

Click on OK

Start virtual machine and login as root user. We are not going to format the newly added
disk

fdisk -1

In the above output we have created 3 partitions for sda i.e. sda1,sda2, and sda3. The
sdb is not yet formatted. So now we need to create 3 partitions for sdb.

fdisk /dev/sdb

To store partitions : w

To verify : fdisk -1

Now we need to create separate ASM Disk for each partition

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oracleasm createdisk CRS1 /dev/sdb1

oracleasm createdisk DATA1 /dev/sdb2
oracleasm createdisk FRA1 /dev/sdb3

To check disk:

oracleasm listdisks

We can also check through

ls -lrt /dev/oracleasm/disks

Create the Directories for Oracle Database installation

mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/db_home
chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01

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Create the Directories for Oracle Grid installation

mkdir -p /u01/app/grid
mkdir -p /u01/app/grid/product/12.2.0/grid_home
chown -R grid:oinstall /u01/app/grid
chown -R 775 /u01

Edit Grid user Bash_Profile but take .bash_profile backup before editing it

cd grid
cp .bash_profile .bash_profile.orig
vi .bash_profile

Paste below contents

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
ORACLE_SID=+ASM; export ORACLE_SID
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/grid; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/grid/12.2.0/grid_home; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM
JAVA_HOME=/usr/bin/java; export JAVA_HOME
TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin; export TNS_ADMIN

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PATH=.:${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}:$HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH

umask 022

Save and close vi editor. Execute the bash profile and check the environment variables

. .bash_profile
env|grep ORA

Let’s proceed with Grid Installation

Copy the grid 12cR2 under grid home and unzip the software
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cd $ORACLE_HOME
unzip linuxx64_12201_grid_home.zip

Start the gridSetup.sh which will install grid software. Make sure xming is up and
running on your windows machine

./gridSetup.sh

Follow below screens to perform the grid software installation

1. Change Disk group name as CRS

2. Select External
3. Click on Change Discovery Path
4. Give Disk Discovery Path as /dev/oracleasm/disks
5. Click on OK

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ASM Disk Group

Select /dev/oracleasm/disks/CRS1 >> Next

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Select use same password for these accounts >> Give  Specify password >> confirm
password >> Next
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Click on Yes

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Click on Next

Click on Next

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Click on Next

Click on Next

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Click on Next

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Click on fix and check again

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Copy script and paste into the Root User

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Click on OK

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1. Ignore All 
2. Next
3. Yes

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Click on Install

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Wait till the installation is completed

Copy first command and run on the root user

Copy second command and run on the root user

Click on OK

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Click on Close

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Configure ASM Diskgroups

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Now we need to initiate the asmca in order to configure DATA and FRA disk group

Click on Create

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1. Give Disk Group Name as DATA

2. Select External(None)
3. Select /dev/oracleasm/disks/DATA1
4. Click on OK

Click on Create

1. Give Disk Group Name as FRA

2. Select External(None)
3. Select /dev/oracleasm/disks/FRA1
4. Click on OK

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Exit >> Yes

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Install Oracle Software

Now we need to setup Oracle user Bash_Profile

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Open duplicate session as Oracle user  >> Give user and Passwords >> copy the bash
profile

Open the Bash Profile

vi .bash_profile

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
ORACLE_HOSTNAME=asm.dbagenesis.com; export ORACLE_HOSTNAME
ORACLE_SID=prod; export ORACLE_SID
ORACLE_UNQNAME=prod; export ORACLE_UNQNAME
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/db_home; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM

JAVA_HOME=/usr/bin/java; export JAVA_HOME

NLS_DATE_FORMAT="DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS"; export NLS_DATE_FORMAT
TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin; export TNS_ADMIN
PATH=.:${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}:$HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:$ORACLE_HOME/oracm/lib
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib:$O
RACLE_HOME/network/jlib
export CLASSPATH

TEMP=/tmp ;export TMP

TMPDIR=$tmp ; export TMPDIR

umask 022

Execute the Bash_Profile:

Now we need to install the Oracle Software. We already copied oracle software under
the u01. Unzip the software

cd /u01
ls -lrt

unzip linuxx64_12201_database.zip

Start the runinstaller

ls -lrt
cd database/
ls -lrt
./runinstaller

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Uncheck the i wish to receive security updates via my oracle support >> Next

Click on Yes

Select install database software only >> Next

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Click on Next

Click on Next

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Click on Next

Click on Next

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Click on Install

install product

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Now we need to run the Root scripts

Copy the command and paste it into the root user

Click on OK

Click on Close

Create Database on ASM

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Now we need to create database on oracle user. Start DBCA and follow below screens.

Select Create a database >> Next

Select Advance Configuration >> Next

Click on Next

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1. Give Global Database name as prod

2. Unable Create as container database
3. Click on Next

Select Use following for the database storage attributes >> Browse

Select DATA >> Click on OK

Click on Next

Select specific fast recovery area >> Browse

Select FRA >>  Click on OK

Change Fast Recovery Area Size  >> Next

Click on Next

Click on Next

Click on Next

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Uncheck Register with Enterprise Manager(EM) database express

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Select Use the same administrative password for all accounts >> Password >> Confirm
Password Next

Click on Yes

Select Create the database >> Next

Click on Finish

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Click on Close

To confirmation purpose, connect to database as Oracle user and issue below queries

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SQL> select name, open_mode from v$database;

SQL> select name from v$datafile;
SQL> select name from v$controlfile;

This is the process of installing Oracle 12cR2 with ASM on Linux. 

The process remains pretty much the same when compared to 12cR1 and also with the
11gR2 release.

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