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InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC Administrator's Guide - AIX
Last Published:
2025-05-15
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: AIX
- Section I. SF Oracle RAC concepts and administration
- Overview of Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
- About Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
- Benefits of SF Oracle RAC
- How SF Oracle RAC works (high-level perspective)
- Component products and processes of SF Oracle RAC
- Communication infrastructure
- Cluster interconnect communication channel
- Low-level communication: port relationship between GAB and processes
- Cluster Volume Manager (CVM)
- About Flexible Storage Sharing
- Cluster File System (CFS)
- Cluster Server (VCS)
- About I/O fencing
- Oracle RAC components
- Oracle Disk Manager
- RAC extensions
- Periodic health evaluation of SF Oracle RAC clusters
- About Virtual Business Services
- About InfoScale Operations Manager
- About Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
- Administering SF Oracle RAC and its components
- Administering SF Oracle RAC
- Setting the environment variables for SF Oracle RAC
- Starting or stopping SF Oracle RAC on each node
- Applying Oracle patches on SF Oracle RAC nodes
- Migrating Pluggable Databases (PDB) between Container Databases (CDB)
- Installing Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, or ODM patches on SF Oracle RAC nodes
- Applying operating system updates on SF Oracle RAC nodes
- Adding storage to an SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Recovering from storage failure
- Backing up and restoring Oracle database using Veritas NetBackup
- Enhancing the performance of SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Administering SmartIO
- Creating snapshots for offhost processing
- Managing database storage efficiently using SmartTier
- Optimizing database storage using Thin Provisioning and SmartMove
- Scheduling periodic health checks for your SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Using environment variables to start and stop VCSMM modules
- Verifying the nodes in an SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Administering VCS
- Viewing available Veritas device drivers
- Starting and stopping VCS
- Environment variables to start and stop VCS modules
- Adding and removing LLT links
- Configuring aggregated interfaces under LLT
- Displaying the cluster details and LLT version for LLT links
- Configuring destination-based load balancing for LLT
- Enabling and disabling intelligent resource monitoring for agents manually
- Administering the AMF kernel driver
- Rebooting nodes in an SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Administering I/O fencing
- About administering I/O fencing
- About the vxfentsthdw utility
- General guidelines for using the vxfentsthdw utility
- About the vxfentsthdw command options
- Testing the coordinator disk group using the -c option of vxfentsthdw
- Removing and replacing a failed disk
- Performing non-destructive testing on the disks using the -r option
- Testing the shared disks using the vxfentsthdw -m option
- Testing the shared disks listed in a file using the vxfentsthdw -f option
- Testing all the disks in a disk group using the vxfentsthdw -g option
- Testing a disk with existing keys
- About the vxfenadm utility
- About the vxfenclearpre utility
- Removing preexisting keys
- About the vxfenswap utility
- Enabling or disabling the preferred fencing policy
- About I/O fencing log files
- Migrating from disk-based fencing to server-based fencing using the installer
- Migrating from server-based fencing to disk-based fencing using the installer
- Administering the CP server
- Administering CFS
- Administering CVM
- Listing all the CVM shared disks
- Establishing CVM cluster membership manually
- Changing the CVM master manually
- Importing a shared disk group manually
- Deporting a shared disk group manually
- Starting shared volumes manually
- Verifying if CVM is running in an SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Verifying CVM membership state
- Verifying the state of CVM shared disk groups
- Verifying the activation mode
- Administering Flexible Storage Sharing
- About Flexible Storage Sharing disk support
- About the volume layout for Flexible Storage Sharing disk groups
- Setting the host prefix
- Exporting a disk for Flexible Storage Sharing
- Setting the Flexible Storage Sharing attribute on a disk group
- Using the host disk class and allocating storage
- Administering mirrored volumes using vxassist
- Displaying exported disks and network shared disk groups
- Backing up and restoring disk group configuration data
- Administering SF Oracle RAC global clusters
- Administering SF Oracle RAC
- Overview of Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
- Section II. Performance and troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC
- About troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC
- Restarting the installer after a failed network connection
- Installer cannot create UUID for the cluster
- Troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC pre-installation check failures
- Troubleshooting LLT health check warning messages
- Troubleshooting LMX and VCSMM health check warning messages in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Troubleshooting I/O fencing
- SCSI reservation errors during bootup
- The vxfentsthdw utility fails when SCSI TEST UNIT READY command fails
- The vxfentsthdw utility fails for Active/Passive arrays when you test disks in raw format
- Node is unable to join cluster while another node is being ejected
- Ignore "DISK OPERATION ERROR" message during restart
- All SF Oracle RAC nodes come up in ADMIN_WAIT status
- System panics to prevent potential data corruption
- Cluster ID on the I/O fencing key of coordinator disk does not match the local cluster's ID
- Fencing startup reports preexisting split-brain
- Clearing preexisting split-brain condition
- Registered keys are lost on the coordinator disks
- Replacing defective disks when the cluster is offline
- Troubleshooting I/O fencing health check warning messages
- Troubleshooting CP server
- Troubleshooting server-based fencing on the SF Oracle RAC cluster nodes
- Issues during online migration of coordination points
- Troubleshooting Cluster Volume Manager in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Restoring communication between host and disks after cable disconnection
- Shared disk group cannot be imported in SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Error importing shared disk groups in SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Unable to start CVM in SF Oracle RAC cluster
- CVM group is not online after adding a node to the SF Oracle RAC cluster
- CVMVolDg not online even though CVMCluster is online in SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Troubleshooting CFS
- Troubleshooting VCSIPC
- Troubleshooting Oracle
- Oracle log files
- Oracle Notes
- OUI fails to display the nodes names on the cluster configuration screen during the installation of Oracle Clusterware
- Error when starting an Oracle instance in SF Oracle RAC
- Clearing Oracle group faults
- Oracle log files show shutdown called even when not shutdown manually
- DBCA fails while creating an Oracle RAC database
- Oracle's clusterware processes fail to start
- Oracle Clusterware fails after restart
- Troubleshooting the Virtual IP (VIP) configuration in an SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware health check warning messages in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Troubleshooting ODM in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Troubleshooting Flex ASM in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Prevention and recovery strategies
- Tunable parameters
- Troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC
- Section III. Reference
Extended event logging
InfoScale provides an option to enable extended event logging. When this option is enabled, InfoScale components provide EO-compliant messages in the corresponding log files, which adhere to the standard security requirements.
In case of interactive deployment, the InfoScale common product installer (CPI) prompts you to enable EO-compliant logging.
If you do not enable the option during InfoScale deployment, CPI provides the eocompliantlogging option, which you can use later as follows:
To enable EO-compliant logging, run:
# /opt/VRTS/install/installer -eocompliantlogging on
To disable EO-compliant logging, run:
# /opt/VRTS/install/installer -eocompliantlogging off
For example, when the eo_logging_tunable parameter is enabled using the vxtunefs command, the following InfoScale components log specific events or details:
VxFS logs events related to WORM (write once read many) and permission-denied events.
File Replicator (VFR) includes IP addresses of the systems involved in its events.
Command logging
As part of InfoScale command logging, the following information is logged:
All the commands that are executed, along with any arguments that may have been used
Errors, if any, that occur when a command is executed
The log format comprises the following space-separated elements listed sequentially:
Timestamp in the YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.mmm+hhmm format
Hostname in the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) format
Log file name
Command name
Sample InfoScale command logs format:
<YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.mmm+hhmm> <FQDN_hostname> /opt/VRTS/bin/fsadm -o softworm /mnt2 <YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.mmm+hhmm> <FQDN_hostname> /log by Ux:vxfs fsadm
See EO-compliant logging.