
Following are the supported versions of HP Serviceguard:
•A.11.19
•A.11.20
Oracle versions supported with ASM are 10.2.0.4, 11.1.0.6, and 11.1.0.7 with interim patches 7330611 and 7225720 installed. Before these patches were released by Oracle, ASM kept descriptors open on ASM disk group member volumes even after the ASM disk group had been dismounted. This prevented the deactivation of the LVM volume groups. These two patches address the ASM descriptor issue and meets the Serviceguard requirement for supporting ASM. Oracle version 11gR2 is also supported but does not require interim patches to be installed.
NOTE: For information on the proposed framework for ASM integration with Serviceguard, please refer to the whitepaper High Availability Support for Oracle ASM with Serviceguard available at:
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The Oracle toolkit uses
The Oracle toolkit scripts for ASM support with Serviceguard consists of a set of shell scripts that are used to start, stop, and monitor an Oracle ASM and database instance and the configured listeners. To use these scripts, the scripts must be integrated into the Serviceguard package control script in case of legacy packages. In the case of modular packages, the scripts must be integrated with the Serviceguard master control script. Subsequent sections provide guidelines for integrating these scripts with the Serviceguard package control script and the master control script.
In a Serviceguard cluster, packages created using the Oracle toolkit can
A major advantage of ASM is the ease of management it provides for database files:
•The system administrator has only to specify the set of raw devices to be used in an ASM disk group; the tasks of configuring and administering volume/disk groups and file systems are eliminated. Oracle ASM makes use of the Oracle feature called
•If a device is added to, or deleted from, an ASM disk group, ASM automatically rebalances database file striping based on the new disk layout.