ACFS default size for /cloudfs on Oracle Database Appliance X4-2

We recently deployed an Oracle Database Appliance X4-2 to support some large databases.  Overall the ODA is really performing well.

The only thing I didnt like about the deployment is that just about ALL of the storage is presented to ASM as part of the install, leaving little for the OS on each node.  While I know you can expand your storage capabilities using NFS and other solutions, I focused on expanding the /cloudfs mount point that was setup as part of our ODA deployment and is visible to both nodes.

The default size of this volume is 50G, and it turns out it was pretty simple to resize to 200G at the cost of stealing a bit of space from our +RECO asm diskgroup.


[grid@uoda2 ~]$ . oraenv
ORACLE_SID = [+ASM1] ? +ASM2
The Oracle base has been set to /u01/app/grid
[grid@uoda2 ~]$ /sbin/acfsutil size +161061273600 /cloudfs
acfsutil size: new file system size: 214748364800 (204800MB)
[grid@uoda2 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroupSys-LogVolRoot
                       30G  3.1G   25G  12% /
/dev/md0              487M   36M  426M   8% /boot
/dev/mapper/VolGroupSys-LogVolOpt
                       59G  8.7G   47G  16% /opt
/dev/mapper/VolGroupSys-LogVolU01
                       97G   38G   55G  41% /u01
tmpfs                 127G  223M  126G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/asm/acfsvol-154  200G   33G  168G  17% /cloudfs

Here's how I found out it was using space from the RECO group:

[grid@uoda2 ~]$ asmcmd
ASMCMD> volinfo -a
Diskgroup Name: RECO

         Volume Name: ACFSVOL
         Volume Device: /dev/asm/acfsvol-154
         State: ENABLED
         Size (MB): 204800
         Resize Unit (MB): 32
         Redundancy: HIGH
         Stripe Columns: 4
         Stripe Width (K): 128
         Usage: ACFS
         Mountpath: /cloudfs