Wednesday, 8 August 2018

Oracle Database Appliance: Resize CloudFS ACFS File System Using ASMCA

During the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment you can optionally configure CloudFS file system. The default mount point is /cloudfs and set to default size of 50GB. Oracle Database Appliance uses the Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) for database and virtual machine files storage. ACFS can only be used to configure shared storage file system on ODA. Oracle ACFS provides both servers with concurrent access to /cloudfs shared file system. The default size of 50GB may not sufficient and must be increased to store big files for business requirement.


In this article we will demonstrate how to resize the /cloudfs file system using ASMCA GUI interface


Steps to resize the /cloudfs file system using asmca GUI Interface

Step 1: Get the current /cloudfs file system size

Step 2: Start VNC on node 1. Here I am starting VNC as root user. You can choose to start it as Grid or Oracle user.

[root@odanode1 ~]# rpm -qa *vnc*
tigervnc-1.1.0-18.el6.x86_64
tigervnc-server-1.1.0-18.el6.x86_64
[root@odanode1 ~]# ps -ef|grep vnc
root     23281 20754  0 13:32 pts/1    00:00:00 grep vnc

[root@odanode1 ~]# vncserver :1

You will require a password to access your desktops.

Password:
Verify:

New 'odanode1:1 (root)' desktop is odanode1:1

Creating default startup script /root/.vnc/xstartup
Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/odanode1:1.log

[root@odanode1 ~]# ps -ef|grep vnc
root     23399     1  1 13:32 pts/1    00:00:00 /usr/bin/Xvnc :1 -desktop odanode1:1 (root) -auth /root/.Xauthority -geometry 1024x768 -rfbwait 30000 -rfbauth /root/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -fp catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d -pn
root     23481 23480  0 13:33 pts/1    00:00:00 vncconfig -iconic
root     23636 20754  0 13:33 pts/1    00:00:00 grep vnc

Step 3: Start VNC viewer on desktop and enter the hostname/IP address on node 1. Enter the root password as we have started the VNC server using root user.



Step 4: Switch to grid user and verify the Grid Home

Step 5: Set Oracle Home to Grid home and start asmca

Step 6: Click on ASM Cluster File System Tab

Step 7: Right Click on /cloudfs and select Resize option

Step 8: Enter the desired new size. Here I am resizing the /cloudfs to 200GB

Step 9: Resize in progress

Step 10: Resize completed

Step 11: Verify the /cloudfs size



Conclusion

In this article we have learned how to resize/increase the size of /cloudfs ACFS file system on ODA using ASMCA GUI utility. The cloudfs file system is configured during the ODA deployment and it is set to 50GB which is not sufficient for storing the big files. The cloudfs is build using ACFS and it can be resized easily using ASMCA graphical interface.

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