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Create or modify your virtualBox disks to be used in a RAC Cluster

Leave a comment Posted by on May 18, 2011

If you want to create a disk to be used in a RAC Cluster, you have to flag your disk to be shared by many virtual machines.

Currently, it is not possible to create a shared disk by using the GUI.So, you must use the VirtualBox command line tool : VBoxManage.

Your disk has be a fixed size disk, and you have to create it first and modify it next to make it shareable.

To create a shared disk, use the createhd command :

VBoxManage createhd --filename /VDisks/asmdisk1.vdi --size 5120 --format VDI --variant Fixed

Next,  use the option –type of the modifyhd command. You can use this command to transform a disk created with the GUI to be shareable.

VBoxManage modifyhd /VDisks/asmdisk1.vdi --type shareable

Now, you can attach your disk to multiple virtual machines and use it as a shared storage device.

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ASM / ADVM, RAC, VirtualBox

ORA-01031: Insufficient Privileges while creating a 11.2.0.2 Database with ASM

3 Comments Posted by on May 4, 2011

I recently encountered this strange error during a database creation process on my RAC :

How to resolve Could not validate ASMSNMP password due to following error- "ORA-01031: insufficient privileges"

I engaged the search mode, and I found a message in my ASM instance alert.log :

ORA-01918: user 'ASMSNMP' does not exist

By a mysterious way, the ASMSNMP user hasn’t been created during the Grid Infrastructure installation process.

So, to resolve this problem,  I have executed the steps above to create the ASMSNMP user:

1- Create or replace the existing password file for the ASM instance

[grid@rac1 ~]$ orapwd file=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/dbs/orapw+ASM password=oracle

2- Copy this password file on every node of your cluster

[grid@rac1 dbs]$ scp orapw+ASM grid@rac2:/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/dbs
orapw+ASM                                     100% 1536     1.5KB/s   00:00

3- Create the ASMSNMP user in the ASM instance, and grant it the SYSDBA Privilege.

[grid@rac1 dbs]$ sqlplus / as sysasm
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
With the Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management options

SQL> create user asmsnmp identified by oracle ;

User created.
SQL> grant sysdba to asmsnmp;

Grant succeeded.

Don’t forget … the ASM instance parameter “REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE” has to be set to EXCLUSIVE or you will raise an ORA-01999 error.

When the ASMSNMP user has been created, I have been able to create my clustered database and to connect to ASM instance.

Administration, ASM / ADVM, RAC