SOLARIS : ASMFD : How to Migrate ASM Diskgroups from Raw Device to ASMFD (ASM Filter Driver) on Oracle Grid Infrastructure (RAC)
(Doc ID 2398284.1)
Last updated on DECEMBER 31, 2019
Applies to:
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.2 and laterOracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Goal
What is Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) ?
- Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) is a kernel module that resides in the I/O path of the Oracle ASM disks. Oracle ASM uses the filter driver to validate write I/O requests to Oracle ASM disks.
- The Oracle ASMFD simplifies the configuration and management of disk devices by eliminating the need to rebind disk devices used with Oracle ASM each time the system is restarted.
- The Oracle ASM Filter Driver rejects any I/O requests that are invalid. This action eliminates accidental overwrites of Oracle ASM disks that would cause corruption in the disks and files within the disk group. For example, the Oracle ASM Filter Driver filters out all non-Oracle I/Os which could cause accidental overwrites.
Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) is installed with an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation. If your existing diskgroup doesn't use ASMFD, then ASM diskgroup disks need to be labeled and migrated to ASMFD (ASM Filter Driver).
Solution
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