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Preface

• Intended Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in Oracle Clusterware Installation and Configuration?

• Changes in Installation Documentation
• Enhancements and New Features for Installation
• Oracle Validated Configuration RPM

1 Oracle Clusterware Preinstallation Tasks

• 1.1 Installing the Linux Operating System
  • 1.1.1 Completing a Default Linux Installation
  • 1.1.2 About the Oracle Validated Configuration RPM
  • 1.1.3 Installing the Oracle Validated Configuration RPM
• 1.2 Logging In to a Remote System as root Using X Terminal
• 1.3 Overview of Groups and Users for Oracle Clusterware Installations
• 1.4 Creating Groups and Users for Oracle Clusterware
  • 1.4.1 Understanding the Oracle Inventory Group
  • 1.4.2 Understanding the Oracle Inventory Directory
  • 1.4.3 Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists
  • 1.4.4 Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist
  • 1.4.5 Creating the Oracle Clusterware User
    • 1.4.5.1 Determining if an Oracle Software Owner User Exists
    • 1.4.5.2 Creating or Modifying an Oracle Software Owner User for Oracle Clusterware
  • 1.4.6 Example of Creating the Oracle Clusterware User and OraInventory Path
• 1.5 Checking the Hardware Requirements
• 1.6 Checking the Network Requirements
  • 1.6.1 Network Hardware Requirements
  • 1.6.2 IP Address Requirements
  • 1.6.3 Node Time Requirements
  • 1.6.4 Network Configuration Options
  • 1.6.5 Configuring the Network Requirements
• 1.7 Identifying Software Requirements
  • 1.7.1 Software Requirements List for x86 (32-bit) Linux Platforms
• 1.8 Checking the Software Requirements
• 1.9 Configuring Kernel Parameters
  • 1.9.1 Installing the cvuqdisk Package for Linux
• 1.10 Configuring SSH on All Cluster Nodes
  • 1.10.1 Checking Existing SSH Configuration on the System
  • 1.10.2 Configuring SSH on Cluster Member Nodes
    • 1.10.2.1 Create .SSH, and Create RSA Keys On Each Node
    • 1.10.2.2 Add All Keys to a Common authorized_keys File
  • 1.10.3 Enabling SSH User Equivalency on Cluster Member Nodes
  • 1.10.4 Setting Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration
  • 1.10.5 Preventing Oracle Clusterware Installation Errors Caused by stty Commands
• 1.11 Configuring Software Owner User Environments
  • 1.11.1 Environment Requirements for Oracle Clusterware Software Owner
  • 1.11.2 Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments
  • 1.11.3 Setting Shell Limits for the Oracle Software Installation Users
• 1.12 Requirements for Creating an Oracle Clusterware Home Directory
• 1.13 Understanding and Using Cluster Verification Utility
  • 1.13.1 Entering Cluster Verification Utility Commands
  • 1.13.2 Using CVU to Determine if Installation Prerequisites are Complete
  • 1.13.3 Using the Cluster Verification Utility Help
  • 1.13.4 Using Cluster Verification Utility with Oracle Database 10g Release 1 or 2
  • 1.13.5 Verbose Mode and "Unknown" Output
• 1.14 Checking Oracle Clusterware Installation Readiness with CVU

2 Oracle Real Application Clusters Preinstallation Tasks

• 2.1 Creating Standard Configuration Operating System Groups and Users
  • 2.1.1 Overview of Groups and Users for Oracle Database Installations
  • 2.1.2 Creating Standard Operating System Groups and Users
    • 2.1.2.1 Verifying That the User nobody Exists
    • 2.1.2.2 Creating the OSDBA Group
    • 2.1.2.3 Creating Identical Users and Groups on Other Cluster Nodes
• 2.2 Creating Custom Configuration Groups and Users for Job Roles
  • 2.2.1 Overview of Creating Operating System Group and User Options Based on Job Roles
    • 2.2.1.1 Users for Oracle Installations with Job Role Separation
    • 2.2.1.2 Database Groups for Job Role Installations
    • 2.2.1.3 ASM Groups for Job Role Installations
  • 2.2.2 Creating Database Operating System Groups and Users with Job Role Separation
    • 2.2.2.1 Creating the OSDBA Group for Custom Installations
    • 2.2.2.2 Creating an OSOPER Group
    • 2.2.2.3 Creating the OSASM Group
    • 2.2.2.4 Creating the OSDBA Group for ASM
    • 2.2.2.5 Creating the Oracle Software Owner User
    • 2.2.2.6 Creating a Separate ASM Owner
    • 2.2.2.7 Verifying That the User nobody Exists
    • 2.2.2.8 Creating Identical Database Users and Groups on Other Cluster Nodes
• 2.3 Understanding the Oracle Base Directory Path
  • 2.3.1 Overview of the Oracle Base directory
  • 2.3.2 Understanding Oracle Base and Oracle Clusterware Directories
• 2.4 Creating the Oracle Base Directory Path
• 2.5 Environment Requirements for Oracle Database and Oracle ASM Owners
• 2.6 Overview of HugePages
  • 2.6.1 What HugePages Provides
  • 2.6.2 Restrictions for HugePage Configurations

3 Configuring Oracle Clusterware Storage

• 3.1 Reviewing Storage Options for Oracle Clusterware Files
  • 3.1.1 Overview of Oracle Clusterware Storage Options
  • 3.1.2 General Storage Considerations for Oracle Clusterware
  • 3.1.3 Quorum Disk Location Restriction with Existing 9.2 Clusterware Installations
  • 3.1.4 After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
• 3.2 Checking for Available Shared Storage with CVU
• 3.3 Configuring Storage for Oracle Clusterware Files on a Supported Shared File System
  • 3.3.1 Requirements for Using a File System for Oracle Clusterware Files
  • 3.3.2 Deciding to Use a Cluster File System for Oracle Clusterware Files
  • 3.3.3 Checking NFS Mount Buffer Size Parameters for Clusterware
  • 3.3.4 Creating Required Directories for Oracle Clusterware Files on Shared File Systems
• 3.4 Configuring Disk Devices for Oracle Clusterware Files
  • 3.4.1 Example of Creating a Udev Permissions File for Oracle Clusterware
  • 3.4.2 Example of Configuring Block Device Storage for Oracle Clusterware

4 Configuring Oracle Real Application Clusters Storage

• 4.1 Reviewing Storage Options for Oracle Database and Recovery Files
  • 4.1.1 Overview of Oracle Database and Recovery File Options
  • 4.1.2 General Storage Considerations for Oracle RAC
  • 4.1.3 After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
• 4.2 Checking for Available Shared Storage with CVU
• 4.3 Choosing a Storage Option for Oracle Database Files
• 4.4 Configuring Storage for Oracle Database Files on a Supported Shared File System
  • 4.4.1 Requirements for Using a File System for Oracle Database Files
  • 4.4.2 Deciding to Use a Cluster File System for Data Files
  • 4.4.3 Deciding to Use NFS for Data Files
  • 4.4.4 Deciding to Use Direct NFS for Datafiles
    • 4.4.4.1 About Direct NFS Storage
    • 4.4.4.2 Using the Oranfstab File with Direct NFS
    • 4.4.4.3 Mounting NFS Storage Devices with Direct NFS
    • 4.4.4.4 Specifying Network Paths with the Oranfstab File
  • 4.4.5 Enabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Manager Control of NFS
  • 4.4.6 Disabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Management Control of NFS
  • 4.4.7 Checking NFS Mount Buffer Size Parameters for Oracle RAC
  • 4.4.8 Creating Required Directories for Oracle Database Files on Shared File Systems
• 4.5 Configuring Disks for Automatic Storage Management
  • 4.5.1 Identifying Storage Requirements for Automatic Storage Management
  • 4.5.2 Using an Existing Automatic Storage Management Disk Group
  • 4.5.3 Configuring Disks for Automatic Storage Management with ASMLIB
    • 4.5.3.1 Installing and Configuring the ASM Library Driver Software
    • 4.5.3.2 Configuring Disk Devices to Use ASM Library Driver on x86 Systems
    • 4.5.3.3 Administering the ASM Library Driver and Disks
• 4.6 Configuring Storage for Oracle Database Files on Shared Storage Devices
  • 4.6.1 Planning Your Shared Storage Device Creation Strategy
  • 4.6.2 Identifying Required Shared Partitions for Database Files
  • 4.6.3 Using Block Devices on Linux
  • 4.6.4 Using Raw Logical Volumes on Linux
    • 4.6.4.1 Configuring Database Raw Logical Volumes on IBM zSeries Based Linux
    • 4.6.4.2 Binding Partitions to Raw Devices for Oracle ASM Files
  • 4.6.5 Creating Raw Devices on IDE or SCSI Devices
  • 4.6.6 Desupport of the Database Configuration Assistant Raw Device Mapping File
• 4.7 Checking the System Setup with CVU

5 Installing Oracle Clusterware

• 5.1 Verifying Oracle Clusterware Requirements with CVU
  • 5.1.1 Interpreting CVU Messages About Oracle Clusterware Setup
• 5.2 Preparing to Install Oracle Clusterware with OUI
• 5.3 Installing Oracle Clusterware with OUI
  • 5.3.1 Running OUI to Install Oracle Clusterware
  • 5.3.2 Installing Oracle Clusterware Using a Cluster Configuration File
  • 5.3.3 Troubleshooting OUI Error Messages for Oracle Clusterware
• 5.4 Confirming Oracle Clusterware Function

6 Oracle Clusterware Post-Installation Procedures

• 6.1 Required Post-Installation Tasks
  • 6.1.1 Back Up the Voting Disk After Installation
  • 6.1.2 Download and Install Patch Updates
• 6.2 Recommended Post-Installation Tasks
  • 6.2.1 Back Up the root.sh Script

7 Deinstallation of Oracle Clusterware

• 7.1 Deciding When to Deinstall Oracle Clusterware
• 7.2 Relocating Single-instance ASM to a Single-Instance Database Home
• 7.3 Removing Oracle Clusterware
  • 7.3.1 About the rootdelete.sh Script
  • 7.3.2 Example of the rootdelete.sh Parameter File
  • 7.3.3 About the rootdeinstall.sh Script
  • 7.3.4 Removing Oracle Clusterware

A Troubleshooting the Oracle Clusterware Installation Process

• A.1 Install OS Watcher and RACDDT
• A.2 General Installation Issues
• A.3 Missing Operating System Packages On Linux
• A.4 Performing Cluster Diagnostics During Oracle Clusterware Installations
• A.5 Interconnect Errors

B How to Perform Oracle Clusterware Rolling Upgrades

• B.1 Back Up the Oracle Software Before Upgrades
• B.2 Restrictions for Clusterware Upgrades to Oracle Clusterware 11g
  • B.2.1 Upgrading from Oracle Clusterware 10g Release 2 to Oracle Clusterware 11g
  • B.2.2 Upgrading from Oracle Cluster Ready Services 10g Release 1 to Oracle Clusterware 11g
• B.3 Verify System Readiness for Patches and Upgrades
• B.4 How to Stop Processes in an Existing Oracle Database
  • B.4.1 Shut Down Oracle RAC Databases
  • B.4.2 Stop All Oracle Processes
    • B.4.2.1 Stop Oracle Clusterware Processes
    • B.4.2.2 Stop Oracle Database 10g Processes Before Adding Products or Upgrading
• B.5 How to Perform Oracle Clusterware Rolling Upgrades for Patches
  • B.5.1 Copy Patch Software to the Primary Upgrade Node
  • B.5.2 Shut Down Oracle RAC Instances on Upgrade Nodes
  • B.5.3 Stop All Oracle Processes on Upgrade Nodes
  • B.5.4 Start OUI and Complete Upgrade Processes on Upgrade Nodes
• B.6 How to Perform Rolling Upgrades From an Earlier Release to 11g

Index