ASM Filter Driver Creating New disk group in Oracle 19c

 Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) is a kernel module that resides in the I/O path of the Oracle ASM disks. After installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure, you can optionally configure Oracle ASMFD for your system.

Labeling the disks

[root@server4 ~]# . oraenv
ORACLE_SID = [+ASM] ? +ASM
The Oracle base remains unchanged with value /u01/app/grid
[root@server4 ~]# asmcmd afd_label RECO1 /dev/vde1
[root@server4 ~]# asmcmd afd_label RECO2 /dev/vdf1
[root@server4 ~]# asmcmd afd_lslbl
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Label                     Duplicate  Path
================================================================================
DATA1                                 /dev/vdc1
DATA2                                 /dev/vdd1
RECO1                                 /dev/vde1
RECO2                                 /dev/vdf1
[root@server4 ~]#  

Creating the disk group

[grid@server4 ~]$ asmca -silent \
> -createDiskGroup -diskGroupName RECO \
> -disk 'AFD:RECO*' -redundancy EXTERNAL \
> -au_size 4 -compatible.asm 19.0.0 -compatible.rdbms 19.0.0

[DBT-30001] Disk groups created successfully. Check /u01/app/grid/cfgtoollogs/asmca/asmca-200402AM115509.log for details.

[grid@server4 ~]$  

Verification

The output of the command indicates success, so let’s have a look at the ASM configuration:

SQL> select d.name, d.path, d.library, dg.name
  2  from v$asm_disk d left join v$asm_diskgroup dg on (dg.group_number = d.group_number)
  3  where dg.name = 'RECO';

NAME       PATH            LIBRARY                                                      NAME
---------- --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------
RECO1      AFD:RECO1       AFD Library - Generic , version 3 (KABI_V3)                  RECO
RECO2      AFD:RECO2       AFD Library - Generic , version 3 (KABI_V3)                  RECO

SQL> select d.name, dg.name, dg.compatibility, dg.database_compatibility
  2  from v$asm_disk d left join v$asm_diskgroup dg on (dg.group_number = d.group_number)
  3  where dg.name = 'RECO';

NAME       NAME       COMPATIBILITY        DATABASE_COMPATIBILI
---------- ---------- -------------------- --------------------
RECO1      RECO       19.0.0.0.0           19.0.0.0.0
RECO2      RECO       19.0.0.0.0           19.0.0.0.0 

See the disk groups registered in Clusterware:

[grid@server4 ~]$ crsctl stat res -t -w "TYPE == ora.diskgroup.type"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name           Target  State        Server                   State details       
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.DATA.dg
               ONLINE  ONLINE       server4                  STABLE
ora.RECO.dg
               ONLINE  ONLINE       server4                  STABLE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[grid@server4 ~]$