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Cloning Oracle Database on ASM with Pure FlashArray on to same host

March 5, 2018 / Somu / How To / Leave a Comment

A lot of customers have requested the steps to clone an Oracle database on ASM hosted on Pure FlashArray, on to the same database host like cloning QA database into DEV on the same host. The problem is, cloning an ASM lun and mounting it onto the same host would result in two luns with

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Identify the ASM device from ASMLib

December 15, 2017 / Somu / Tips / Leave a Comment

In Linux, ASMLib provides the wrapper for managing the ASM disks. To identify the underlying physical device that the ASM disk point to, you can use the oracleasm querydisk command. The querydisk option will list the major and minor numbers that can be used to match the physical device. The following example was run on

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