Changing Rebalance Power of An Ongoing Operation

Changing ASM Rebalance Power of an Ongoing Operation
Alejandro Vargas
Principal Support Consultant
Oracle Advanced Support Services
INDEX
Check the Mapping of The ASM disks to remove...............................................................................................................2
Removing ASM Disks from DATA diskgroup for IO test.....................................................................................................3
Drop ASM disks..............................................................................................................................................................3
Check the rate of rebalance............................................................................................................................................4
Change the Rebalance Power........................................................................................................................................4
Check the Progress of the Rebalance Operation............................................................................................................5
Check the rbal Processes Spawned at the OS...............................................................................................................6
Check status once removal finish...................................................................................................................................6
Removing the Devices from ASM.......................................................................................................................................7
Check the Physical devices before removing them from ASM........................................................................................7
Remove the disks from ASM...........................................................................................................................................8
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Check the Mapping of The ASM disks to remove
To check the mapping of your ASM disks on Linux you can use this script:
---------- 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 ------------
ASM disk "VOL15" based on /dev/sda1 [94, 173]

ASM disk "VOL16" based on /dev/sdb1 [94, 177]
ASM disk "VOL17" based on /dev/sdc1 [94, 181]
ASM disk "VOL18" based on /dev/sdd1 [94, 185]
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Removing ASM Disks from DATA diskgroup for IO test
Drop ASM disks

Once you have checked which are the ASM disks you need to remove you can remove them using the ‘Alter
Diskgroup’ Command
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP DataDG drop disk VOL18, VOL17, VOL16, VOL15;
Diskgroup altered.
Once the ASM disks are dropped the data on them is rebalanced over to the remaining disks, until this operation is
completed you should not touch the underlying physical devices.
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Check the rate of rebalance.

SQL> select sysdate, GROUP_NUMBER, OPERATION,
STATE, POWER, ACTUAL, SOFAR, EST_WORK,
EST_RATE, EST_MINUTES
from v$asm_operation;
SYSDATE GROUP_NUMBER OPERA STAT POWER ACTUAL SOFAR EST_WORK EST_RATE EST_MINUTES
-------------- ------------ ----- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -----------
02/07/08 16:32 2 REBAL RUN 1 1 2364 15437 300 43
SQL> /
-------------- ------------ ----- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -----------
02/07/08 16:38 2 REBAL RUN 1 1 3910 20912 287 59
Change the Rebalance Power

Having noticed that performance was bad, the total amount of space of these disks was 12 GB so the rebalance
should have finished quickly, instead the estimated minutes increased, so I have decided to change the rebalance
power to 6. With 6 processes the rebalance did finish much faster.
SQL> alter diskgroup MOE_DATA rebalance power 6;
Diskgroup altered.
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Check the Progress of the Rebalance Operation

SQL> select sysdate, GROUP_NUMBER, OPERATION,
STATE, POWER, ACTUAL, SOFAR, EST_WORK,
EST_RATE, EST_MINUTES
from v$asm_operation;
-------------- ------------ ----- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -----------
02/07/08 16:44 2 REBAL RUN 6 6 4584 24524 974 20
SQL> /
-------------- ------------ ----- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -----------
02/07/08 16:57 2 REBAL RUN 6 6 17942 35812 1175 15
SQL> /
-------------- ------------ ----- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -----------
02/07/08 17:06 2 REBAL RUN 6 6 27084 38004 960 11
SQL> /
-------------- ------------ ----- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -----------
02/07/08 17:09 2 REBAL RUN 6 6 29619 38650 962 9
SQL> /
-------------- ------------ ----- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -----------
02/07/08 17:13 2 REBAL RUN 6 6 33519 39601 934 6
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Check the rbal Processes Spawned at the OS

avargas-il:~ # ps -efa | grep asm_arb
oracle 5642 1 0 16:38 ? 00:00:00 asm_arb0_+ASM
Check status once removal finish

SQL> select NAME,PATH,MOUNT_STATUS,STATE from v$asm_disk
where path in ('ORCL:VOL18','ORCL:VOL17','ORCL:VOL16','ORCL:VOL15');
NAME PATH MOUNT_S STATE

---------- -------------------- ------- --------
ORCL:VOL15 CLOSED NORMAL
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Removing the Devices from ASM
avargas-il > su -
Password:
avargas-il:~ # /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk VOL15

Disk "VOL15" is a valid ASM disk on device [94, 173]
Check the Physical devices before removing them from ASM

avargas-il:~ # ls -l /dev/| grep 94, | grep 173
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 94, 273 Jun 12 2007 dsda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 94, 277 Jun 12 2007 dsdb1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 94, 281 Jun 12 2007 dsdc1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 94, 285 Jun 12 2007 dsde1
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Remove the disks from ASM

avargas-il:~ # /etc/init.d/oracleasm deletedisk VOL15
Removing ASM disk "VOL15": done
avargas-il:~ # /etc/init.d/oracleasm scandisks
Scanning system for ASM disks: done
End of Report
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Changing ASM Rebalance Power of an Ongoing Operation

Check the Mapping of The ASM disks to remove

---------- start here ------------

ASM disk "VOL15" based on /dev/sda1 [94, 173]

Removing ASM Disks from DATA diskgroup for IO test

Drop ASM disks

Check the rate of rebalance.

Change the Rebalance Power

SQL> alter diskgroup MOE_DATA rebalance power 6;

Check the Progress of the Rebalance Operation

Check the rbal Processes Spawned at the OS

Check status once removal finish

NAME PATH MOUNT_S STATE

Removing the Devices from ASM

avargas-il:~ # /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk VOL15

Check the Physical devices before removing them from ASM

Remove the disks from ASM

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