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  • November 15, 2007

Mapping ASM disks to Physical Devices

Alejandro Vargas
Technical Leader, ACS Global Delivery, Infrastructure & BigData

Sometimes you may need to map ASM Disks to its physical devices.
If they are based on ASMLib you will see their ASM name, ie: ORCL:VOL1 when querying v$asm_disk

When running oracleasm querydisk VOL1 you will get in addition the major - minor numbers, that can be used to match the physical device, ie:

[root@orcldb2 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk VOL1
Disk "VOL1" is a valid ASM disk on device [8, 97]

[root@orcldb2 ~]# ls -l /dev | grep 8, | grep 97
brw-rw----   1 root disk     8,      81 Nov  4 13:02 sdg1

This script can do the job for a group of ASM Disks:

---------- start  here ------------
#!/bin/ksh
for i in `/etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks`
do
v_asmdisk=`/etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk $i | awk  '{print $2}'`
v_minor=`/etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk $i | awk -F[ '{print $2}'| awk -F] '{print $1}' | awk '{print $1}'`
v_major=`/etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk $i | awk -F[ '{print $2}'| awk -F] '{print $1}' | awk '{print $2}'`
v_device=`ls -la /dev | grep $v_minor | grep $v_major | awk '{print $10}'`
echo "ASM disk $v_asmdisk based on /dev/$v_device  [$v_minor $v_major]"
done
---------- finish here ------------

The output looks like this:

ASM disk "VOL1" based on /dev/sdg1  [8, 97]
ASM disk "VOL10" based on /dev/sdp1  [8, 241]
ASM disk "VOL2" based on /dev/sdh1  [8, 113]
ASM disk "VOL3" based on /dev/sdk1  [8, 161]
ASM disk "VOL4" based on /dev/sdi1  [8, 129]
ASM disk "VOL5" based on /dev/sdl1  [8, 177]
ASM disk "VOL6" based on /dev/sdj1  [8, 145]
ASM disk "VOL7" based on /dev/sdn1  [8, 209]
ASM disk "VOL8" based on /dev/sdo1  [8, 225]
ASM disk "VOL9" based on /dev/sdm1  [8, 193]


If you are using multi-path, you will need an additional step to map the physical device to the multi-path device, for instance if using EMC Powerpath if you want to map sdf1


[root@orclp ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk vol1
Disk "VOL1" is a valid ASM disk on device [8, 81]

[root@orclp ~]# ls -l /dev | grep 8,| grep 81
brw-rw----   1 root disk     8,      81 Oct 29 20:42 sdf1

[root@orclp ~]# powermt display dev=all
...
...
Pseudo name=emcpowerg
Symmetrix ID=000290101698
Logical device ID=0214
state=alive; policy=SymmOpt; priority=0; queued-IOs=0
==============================================================================
---------------- Host ---------------   - Stor -   -- I/O Path -  -- Stats ---
### HW Path                 I/O Paths    Interf.   Mode    State  Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
   1 qla2xxx                   sdf       FA  7bB   active  alive      0      0
   2 qla2xxx                   sdq       FA 10bB   active  alive      0      0
...
...

The last step is to check the partition assigned to the emcpower device, ie:

[root@orclp ~]# ls -l /dev/emcpowerg*
brw-------  1 root root 120, 96 Oct 29 20:41 /dev/emcpowerg
brw-------  1 root root 120, 97 Nov 15 13:08 /dev/emcpowerg1



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Comments ( 3 )
  • Charles Schultz Friday, November 16, 2007
    Thanks, Alejandro. As with so much of your stuff, I found this quite helpful.
    Might I suggest a small change to the script? As you have it, the script could potentially find false positives if the major number is part of the minor number (ie, [120, 0]).
    I rewrote a script for our use like so:
    ------ start -------
    #!/bin/ksh
    /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk `/etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks` | cut -f2,10,11 -d" " | perl -pe 's/"(.*)".*\[(.*), *(.*)\]/$1 $2 $3/g;' | while read v_asmdisk v_minor v_major
    do
    v_device=`ls -la /dev | grep " $v_minor, *$v_major " | awk '{print $10}'`
    echo "ASM disk $v_asmdisk based on /dev/$v_device [$v_minor, $v_major]"
    done
    -------- end ---------
    Fortunately, our EMC Powerpath is setup such that we can stop there.
    Cheers!
  • dballester Monday, December 3, 2007
    In linux you can query the /proc/partitions pseudofile with awk and grep without dealing with /dev directly
    Regards
  • Yossi Nixon Monday, July 21, 2008
    More formated and informative output:
    ---------- start here ------------
    #!/bin/ksh
    export ORACLE_HOME=`grep ASM /etc/oratab | cut -d: -f2`
    export PATH=$PATH:~$user/dba/scripts/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
    export SID=`grep ASM /etc/oratab | cut -d: -f1`
    printf "\n%-15s %-14s %-11s %-7s\n" "ASM disk" "based on" "Minor,Major" "Size (Mb)"
    printf "%-15s %-14s %-11s %-7s\n" "===============" "=============" "===========" "========="
    for i in `/etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks`
    do
    v_asmdisk=`/etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk $i | awk '{print $2}'| sed 's/\"//g'`
    v_minor=`/etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk $i | awk -F[ '{print $2}'| awk -F] '{print $1}' | awk '{print $1}'`
    v_major=`/etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk $i | awk -F[ '{print $2}'| awk -F] '{print $1}' | awk '{print $2}'`
    v_device=`ls -la /dev | awk -v v_minor=$v_minor -v v_major=$v_major '{if ( $5==v_minor ) { if ( $6==v_major ) { print $10}}}'`
    v_size=`${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/kfod asm_diskstring='ORCL:*' disks=all | grep ${v_asmdisk} | awk '{print $2}'`
    Total_size=`expr $Total_size + $v_size`
    Formated_size=`echo $v_size | sed -e :a -e 's/\(.*[0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\)/\1,\2/;ta'`
    printf "%-15s %-14s %-11s %-7s\n" $v_asmdisk "/dev/$v_device" "[$v_minor $v_major]" $Formated_size
    done
    Formated_Total_size=`echo $Total_size | sed -e :a -e 's/\(.*[0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\)/\1,\2/;ta'`
    printf "\nTotal: %43s\n\n" $Formated_Total_size
    ---------- finish here ------------
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