How This Guide Is Organized

Overview: Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC describes the components of Oracle RAC and the Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC components in support of Oracle Real Application Cluster.

Preparing to Install Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC describes the steps required in preparation for installing Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC.

Installing SFRAC 4.1 and Configuring Components describes the sequence of steps to install the required software and how to perform initial configuration. The chapter includes procedures for testing the storage arrays for compliance with SCSI-3 persistent reservations.

Installing Oracle9i Software describes how to set up shared storage and install Oracle9i or Oracle 10g software. Installation is typically on shared storage, but procedures for installing on local systems are also provided.

Configuring VCS Service Groups for Oracle9i describes configuring VCS service groups for Oracle, the database, and the listener process in parallel mode. It describes configuring the agents within the service group.

I/O Fencing Testing and Scenarios describes I/O fencing behavior in several scenarios.

Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback describes using SFRAC storage checkpoints for backup and recovery of Oracle databases.

Using Storage Mapping describes using SFRAC to map datafiles to physical devices.

Adding and Removing SFRAC Nodes describes how to modify the number of nodes in a cluster.

Upgrading to SFRAC 4.1 describes how to upgrade VERITAS DBE/AC 3.5 for Oracle9i RAC to SFRAC 4.1.

Uninstalling SFRAC 4.1 describes how to uninstall and remove the components of SFRAC.

Troubleshooting describes typical problems and recommended solutions. This section describes scripts that generate information about your systems used by VERITAS support.

Sample Configuration Files provides sample files for the main.cf, types.cf, CFSTypes.cf, CVMTypes.cf, OracleTypes.cf, and VRTSWebAppType.cf.

CVMCluster, CVMVxconfigd, CVMVolDg, and CFSMount Agents provides details for various agents used in SFRAC configurations.

Tunable Kernel Driver Parameters describes tunable parameters for the LMX and VXFEN drivers.

Error Messages lists LMX and VXFEN messages you may encounter.

Creating a Starter Database contains procedures for creating starter databases using dbca or VERITAS scripts on raw shared volumes or in VxFS file systems.

Linking VERITAS Libraries to Oracle covers procedures to link Oracle binaries and SFRAC libraries using the linkrac9i command.