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List of Tables
Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Intended Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documents
Conventions
What's New in Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation and Configuration?
New Features for Release 2 (11.2.0.4)
Desupported Options for Release 2 (11.2.0.4)
New Features for Release 2 (11.2.0.3)
New Features for Release 2 (11.2.0.2)
New Features for Release 2 (11.2)
New Features for Release 1 (11.1)
1
Typical Installation for Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster
1.1
Typical and Advanced Installation
1.2
Preinstallation Steps Completed Using Typical Installation
1.3
Preinstallation Steps Requiring Manual Tasks
1.3.1
Verify System Requirements
1.3.2
Check Network Requirements
1.3.2.1
Single Client Access Name (SCAN) for the Cluster
1.3.2.2
IP Address Requirements
1.3.2.3
Redundant Interconnect Usage
1.3.2.4
Intended Use of Network Interfaces
1.3.3
Check Operating System Packages
1.3.4
Create Groups and Users
1.3.5
Check Storage
1.3.6
Prepare Storage for Oracle Automatic Storage Management
1.3.6.1
Installing ASMLIB Packages Automatically with ULN
1.3.6.2
Installing ASMLIB Packages Manually
1.3.6.3
Mark Oracle ASM Candidate Disk Partitions
1.3.7
Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software
2
Advanced Installation Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Preinstallation Tasks
2.1
About Installing the Linux Operating System
2.1.1
Completing a Minimal Linux Installation
2.1.2
Completing a Default Linux Installation
2.1.3
About Oracle Linux and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
2.1.4
About the Oracle Preinstallation and Oracle Validated RPMs
2.1.5
Installing the Oracle Preinstallation or Oracle Validated RPM with ULN Support
2.1.6
Installing the Oracle Preinstallation RPM From DVDs or Images
2.1.7
Using Ksplice to Perform a Zero Downtime Update
2.2
Reviewing Upgrade Best Practices
2.3
Installation Fixup Scripts
2.4
Logging In to a Remote System Using X Terminal
2.5
Creating Groups, Users and Paths for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
2.5.1
Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists
2.5.2
Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist
2.5.3
Creating the Oracle Grid Infrastructure User
2.5.3.1
Understanding Restrictions for Oracle Software Installation Owners
2.5.3.2
Determining if an Oracle Software Owner User Exists
2.5.3.3
Creating or Modifying an Oracle Software Owner User for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
2.5.4
Creating the Oracle Base Directory Path
2.5.5
Creating Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and Users
2.5.5.1
Overview of Creating Job Role Separation Groups and Users
2.5.5.2
Creating Database Groups and Users with Job Role Separation
2.5.6
Example of Creating Standard Groups, Users, and Paths
2.5.7
Example of Creating Role-allocated Groups, Users, and Paths
2.6
Checking the Hardware Requirements
2.6.1
General Server Requirements
2.6.2
Server Hardware Requirements
2.6.3
Server Memory Requirements
2.6.3.1
64-bit System and Linux on System z Memory Requirements
2.6.3.2
Memory Requirements
2.6.4
Checking Server Hardware and Memory Configuration
2.7
Checking the Network Requirements
2.7.1
Network Hardware Requirements
2.7.2
IP Address Requirements
2.7.2.1
IP Address Requirements with Grid Naming Service
2.7.2.2
IP Address Requirements for Manual Configuration
2.7.3
Broadcast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure
2.7.4
Multicast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure
2.7.5
DNS Configuration for Domain Delegation to Grid Naming Service
2.7.6
Grid Naming Service Configuration Example
2.7.7
Manual IP Address Configuration Example
2.7.8
Network Interface Configuration Options
2.7.9
Multiple Private Interconnects and Enterprise Linux
2.7.10
Enabling the Name Service Cache Daemon
2.8
Identifying Software Requirements
2.8.1
Software Requirements List for x86 Linux Platforms
2.8.2
Software Requirements List for x86-64 Linux Platforms
2.8.3
Software Requirements list for IBM: Linux on System z
2.9
Checking the Software Requirements
2.10
Verifying UDP and TCP Kernel Parameters
2.11
Network Time Protocol Setting
2.12
Installing the cvuqdisk Package for Linux
2.13
Enabling Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
2.13.1
Requirements for Enabling IPMI
2.13.2
Configuring the IPMI Management Network
2.13.3
Configuring the IPMI Driver
2.13.3.1
Configuring the Open IPMI Driver
2.13.3.2
Configuring the BMC
2.14
Automatic SSH Configuration During Installation
2.15
Configuring Grid Infrastructure Software Owner User Environments
2.15.1
Environment Requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Owner
2.15.2
Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments
2.15.3
Check Resource Limits for the Oracle Software Installation Users
2.15.4
Setting Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration
2.15.5
Preventing Installation Errors Caused by Terminal Output Commands
2.16
Requirements for Creating an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Directory
2.17
Cluster Name Requirements
3
Configuring Storage for Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle RAC
3.1
Reviewing Oracle Grid Infrastructure Storage Options
3.1.1
Overview of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC Storage Options
3.1.2
Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM Support
3.1.3
General Information About Oracle ACFS
3.1.4
General Storage Considerations for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
3.1.4.1
General Storage Considerations for Oracle Clusterware
3.1.4.2
General Storage Considerations for Oracle RAC
3.1.5
Guidelines for Using Oracle ASM Disk Groups for Storage
3.1.6
Using Logical Volume Managers with Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
3.1.7
Supported Storage Options
3.1.8
After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
3.2
Shared File System Storage Configuration
3.2.1
Requirements for Using a Shared File System
3.2.2
Deciding to Use a Cluster File System for Oracle Clusterware Files
3.2.3
Deciding to Use Direct NFS Client for Data Files
3.2.3.1
About Direct NFS Client Storage
3.2.3.2
Using the oranfstab File with Direct NFS Client
3.2.3.3
Mounting NFS Storage Devices with Direct NFS Client
3.2.3.4
Specifying Network Paths with the oranfstab File
3.2.4
Deciding to Use NFS for Data Files
3.2.5
Configuring Storage NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters
3.2.6
Checking NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters for Oracle Clusterware
3.2.7
Checking NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters for Oracle RAC
3.2.8
Enabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Manager Control of NFS
3.2.9
Enabling Hybrid Columnar Compression on Direct NFS Client
3.2.10
Creating Directories for Oracle Clusterware Files on Shared File Systems
3.2.11
Creating Directories for Oracle Database Files on Shared File Systems
3.2.12
Disabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Management Control of NFS
3.3
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Storage Configuration
3.3.1
Configuring Storage for Oracle Automatic Storage Management
3.3.1.1
Identifying Storage Requirements for Oracle Automatic Storage Management
3.3.1.2
Creating Files on a NAS Device for Use with Oracle ASM
3.3.1.3
Using an Existing Oracle ASM Disk Group
3.3.1.4
Configuring Disks for Oracle ASM with ASMLIB
3.3.1.5
Configuring ASMLIB for Multipath Disks
3.3.1.6
Configuring Disk Devices Manually for Oracle ASM
3.3.2
Using Disk Groups with Oracle Database Files on Oracle ASM
3.3.2.1
Identifying and Using Existing Oracle Database Diskgroups on Oracle ASM
3.3.2.2
Creating Diskgroups for Oracle Database Data Files
3.3.3
Configuring Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System
3.3.4
Upgrading Existing Oracle ASM Instances
3.4
Desupport of Block and Raw Devices
3.5
Configuring Raw Logical Volumes on IBM: Linux on System z
4
Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster
4.1
Preparing to Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure with OUI
4.2
Preparing to Install Oracle Clusterware on IBM: Linux on System z
4.3
Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure
4.3.1
Running OUI to Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure
4.3.2
Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure Using a Cluster Configuration File
4.4
Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure Using a Software-Only Installation
4.4.1
Installing the Software Binaries
4.4.2
Configuring the Software Binaries
4.4.3
Configuring the Software Binaries Using a Response File
4.5
Restrictions for Oracle Berkeley DB
4.6
Confirming Oracle Clusterware Function
4.7
Confirming Oracle ASM Function for Oracle Clusterware Files
4.8
Understanding Offline Processes in Oracle Grid Infrastructure
5
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Postinstallation Procedures
5.1
Required Postinstallation Tasks
5.2
Recommended Postinstallation Tasks
5.2.1
Backing Up the root.sh Script
5.2.2
Tuning Semaphore Parameters
5.2.3
Creating a Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
5.2.3.1
About the Fast Recovery Area and the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
5.2.3.2
Creating the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
5.2.4
Running Oracle RAC Configuration Audit Tool
5.3
Using Older Oracle Database Versions with Grid Infrastructure
5.3.1
General Restrictions for Using Older Oracle Database Versions
5.3.2
Using ASMCA to Administer Disk Groups for Older Database Versions
5.3.3
Pinning Cluster Nodes for Oracle Database Release 10.x or 11.x
5.3.4
Enabling The Global Services Daemon (GSD) for Oracle Database Release 9.2
5.3.5
Using the Correct LSNRCTL Commands
5.4
Modifying Oracle Clusterware Binaries After Installation
6
How to Modify or Deinstall Oracle Grid Infrastructure
6.1
Deciding When to Deinstall Oracle Clusterware
6.2
Migrating Standalone Grid Infrastructure Servers to a Cluster
6.3
Relinking Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Binaries
6.4
Changing the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Path
6.5
Deconfiguring Oracle Clusterware Without Removing Binaries
6.6
Removing Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM
6.6.1
About the Deinstallation Tool
6.6.2
Deinstalling Previous Release Grid Home
6.6.3
Downloading The Deinstall Tool for Use with Failed Installations
6.6.4
Running The Deinstallation Tool
6.6.5
Deinstall Command Example for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM
6.6.6
Deinstallation Parameter File Example for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster
A
Troubleshooting the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Process
A.1
General Installation Issues
A.1.1
Other Installation Issues and Errors
A.2
Interpreting CVU "Unknown" Output Messages Using Verbose Mode
A.3
Interpreting CVU Messages About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Setup
A.4
About the Oracle Clusterware Alert Log
A.5
Missing Operating System Packages On Linux
A.6
Performing Cluster Diagnostics During Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installations
A.7
About Using CVU Cluster Healthchecks After Installation
A.8
Interconnect Configuration Issues
A.9
SCAN VIP and SCAN Listener Issues
A.10
Storage Configuration Issues
A.10.1
Recovery from Losing a Node Filesystem or Grid Home
A.10.2
Oracle ASM Library Driver Issues
A.11
Completing an Installation Before Finishing Running Scripts
B
Installing and Configuring Oracle Database Using Response Files
B.1
How Response Files Work
B.1.1
Reasons for Using Silent Mode or Response File Mode
B.1.2
General Procedure for Using Response Files
B.2
Preparing a Response File
B.2.1
Editing a Response File Template
B.2.2
Recording a Response File
B.3
Running the Installer Using a Response File
B.4
Running Net Configuration Assistant Using a Response File
B.5
Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File
B.5.1
About the Postinstallation Configuration File
B.5.2
Running Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File
C
Configuring Large Memory Optimization
C.1
Overview of HugePages
C.1.1
What HugePages Provides
C.2
Restrictions for HugePage Configurations
C.3
Disabling Transparent HugePages
D
Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Installation Concepts
D.1
Understanding Preinstallation Configuration
D.1.1
Understanding Oracle Groups and Users
D.1.1.1
Understanding the Oracle Inventory Group
D.1.1.2
Understanding the Oracle Inventory Directory
D.1.2
Understanding the Oracle Base Directory Path
D.1.2.1
Overview of the Oracle Base directory
D.1.2.2
Understanding Oracle Base and Grid Infrastructure Directories
D.1.3
Understanding Network Addresses
D.1.3.1
About the Public IP Address
D.1.3.2
About the Private IP Address
D.1.3.3
About the Virtual IP Address
D.1.3.4
About the Grid Naming Service (GNS) Virtual IP Address
D.1.3.5
About the SCAN
D.1.4
Understanding Network Time Requirements
D.2
Understanding Storage Configuration
D.2.1
Understanding Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System
D.2.2
About Migrating Existing Oracle ASM Instances
D.2.3
About Converting Standalone Oracle ASM Installations to Clustered Installations
D.3
Understanding Server Pools
D.3.1
Overview of Server Pools and Policy-based Management
D.3.2
How Server Pools Work
D.3.3
The Free Server Pool
D.3.4
The Generic Server Pool
D.4
Understanding Out-of-Place Upgrade
E
How to Complete Installation Prerequisite Tasks Manually
E.1
Configuring SSH Manually on All Cluster Nodes
E.1.1
Checking Existing SSH Configuration on the System
E.1.2
Configuring SSH on Cluster Nodes
E.1.2.1
Create SSH Directory, and Create SSH Keys On Each Node
E.1.2.2
Add All Keys to a Common authorized_keys File
E.1.3
Enabling SSH User Equivalency on Cluster Nodes
E.2
Configuring Kernel Parameters
E.2.1
Minimum Parameter Settings for Installation
E.2.2
Additional Parameter and Kernel Settings for SUSE Linux
E.3
Checking OCFS2 Version Manually
F
How to Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11
g
Release 2
F.1
Back Up the Oracle Software Before Upgrades
F.2
Unset Oracle Environment Variables
F.3
About Oracle ASM and Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation and Upgrade
F.4
Restrictions for Clusterware and Oracle ASM Upgrades
F.5
Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
F.5.1
Checks to Complete Before Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
F.5.2
Running the Oracle RACcheck Upgrade Readiness Assessment
F.6
Using CVU to Validate Readiness for Oracle Clusterware Upgrades
F.6.1
About the CVU Grid Upgrade Validation Command Options
F.6.2
Example of Verifying System Upgrade Readiness for Grid Infrastructure
F.6.3
Verifying System Readiness for Oracle Database Upgrades
F.7
Performing Rolling Upgrades From an Earlier Release
F.7.1
Performing a Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Clusterware
F.7.2
Completing an Oracle Clusterware Upgrade when Nodes Become Unreachable
F.7.3
Performing a Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Automatic Storage Management
F.7.3.1
Preparing to Upgrade Oracle ASM
F.7.3.2
Upgrading Oracle ASM
F.8
Updating DB Control and Grid Control Target Parameters
F.9
Unlocking the Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
F.10
Downgrading Oracle Clusterware After an Upgrade
F.11
Checking Cluster Health Monitor Repository Size After Upgrading
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