Preparing Drives for ASM using ASMLib

by Eric Jenkinson on September 30, 2011 Tagged: , ,

This document will detail the steps to configure disks for ASM and the installation of ASMLib on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 running in Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.2. The drives were created as shared drives. See the post: Creating Shared Drives in Oracle VM VirtualBox for more information on creating shared drives in Oracle VM VirtualBox.
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PRVF-5439: NTP daemon does not have slewing option “-x” set on node

by Eric Jenkinson on September 29, 2011 Tagged: , ,

When installing Oracle 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure either the cluster verify utility or the prerequisite checks find that the NTP daemon does not have the slewing option set.
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