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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
Configure Oracle Installation Owner Shell Limits
1.3.6
Check Storage
1.3.7
Prepare Storage for Oracle Automatic Storage Management
1.3.8
Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software
2
Advanced Installation Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Preinstallation Tasks
2.1
Reviewing Upgrade Best Practices
2.2
Installation Fixup Scripts
2.3
Logging In to a Remote System as root Using X Terminal
2.4
Creating Groups, Users and Paths for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
2.4.1
Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists
2.4.2
Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist
2.4.3
Creating the Oracle Grid Infrastructure User
2.4.3.1
Understanding Restrictions for Oracle Software Installation Owners
2.4.3.2
Determining if an Oracle Software Owner User Exists
2.4.3.3
Creating or Modifying an Oracle Software Owner User for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
2.4.4
Creating the Oracle Base Directory Path
2.4.5
Creating Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and Users
2.4.5.1
Overview of Creating Job Role Separation Groups and Users
2.4.5.2
Creating Database Groups and Users with Job Role Separation
2.4.6
Example of Creating Standard Groups, Users, and Paths
2.4.7
Example of Creating Role-allocated Groups, Users, and Paths
2.5
Checking the Hardware Requirements
2.6
Checking the Network Requirements
2.6.1
Network Hardware Requirements
2.6.2
IP Address Requirements
2.6.2.1
IP Address Requirements with Grid Naming Service
2.6.2.2
IP Address Requirements for Manual Configuration
2.6.3
Broadcast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure
2.6.4
Multicast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure
2.6.5
DNS Configuration for Domain Delegation to Grid Naming Service
2.6.6
Grid Naming Service Configuration Example
2.6.7
Manual IP Address Configuration Example
2.6.8
Network Interface Configuration Options
2.7
Identifying the Software Requirements
2.8
Checking the Software Requirements
2.9
Verifying UDP and TCP Kernel Parameters
2.10
Checking Resource Limits for AIX
2.11
Tuning AIX System Environment
2.11.1
Checking Asynchronous Input Output Processes
2.11.2
Tuning Virtual Memory Manager (VMM)
2.11.3
Increasing System Block Size Allocation
2.11.4
Configuring SSH LoginGraceTime Parameter for AIX
2.11.5
Configuring Shell Limits
2.11.6
Configuring User Process Parameters
2.11.7
Configuring Network Tuning Parameters
2.12
Network Time Protocol Setting
2.13
Automatic SSH Configuration During Installation
2.14
Configuring Grid Infrastructure Software Owner User Environments
2.14.1
Environment Requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Owner
2.14.2
Environment Requirements for Oracle Database and Oracle ASM Owners
2.14.3
Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments
2.14.4
Setting Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration
2.14.5
Preventing Installation Errors Caused by Terminal Output Commands
2.15
Running the rootpre.sh Script
2.16
Adding the Grid Infrastructure Installation Owner to Hagsuser Group
2.17
Requirements for Creating an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Directory
2.18
Cluster Name Requirements
3
Configuring Storage for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
3.1
Reviewing Oracle Grid Infrastructure Storage Options
3.1.1
Overview of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC Storage Options
3.1.1.1
Quorum Disk Location Restriction with Existing 9.2 Clusterware Installations
3.1.1.2
After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
3.1.2
General Information About Oracle ACFS
3.1.3
General Storage Considerations for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
3.1.3.1
General Storage Considerations for Oracle Clusterware
3.1.3.2
General Storage Considerations for Oracle RAC
3.1.4
Guidelines for Using Oracle ASM Disk Groups for Storage
3.1.5
Using Logical Volume Managers with Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
3.1.6
Supported Storage Options
3.1.7
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
Enabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Manager Control of NFS
3.2.7
Configuring HACMP Multinode Disk Heartbeat (MNDHB)
3.2.7.1
Overview of Requirements for Using HACMP with Oracle Clusterware
3.2.7.2
Deploying HACMP and MDNDHB for Oracle Clusterware
3.2.7.3
Upgrading an Existing Oracle Clusterware and HACMP Installation
3.2.8
Configuring Raw Logical Volumes for Oracle Clusterware
3.2.9
Configuring New Oracle Clusterware Volume Group Raw Logical Volumes
3.2.10
Creating a Volume Group for Database Files
3.2.11
Creating a Volume Group for Oracle Clusterware
3.2.12
Importing the Volume Group on the Other Cluster Nodes
3.2.13
Activating the Volume Group in Concurrent Mode on All Cluster Nodes
3.2.14
Creating Directories for Oracle Clusterware Files on Shared File Systems
3.2.15
Creating Directories for Oracle Database Files on Shared File Systems
3.2.16
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 ASM
3.3.1.2
Creating Files on a NAS Device for Use with Oracle ASM
3.3.2
Using an Existing Oracle ASM Disk Group
3.3.3
Configuring Disk Devices for Oracle ASM
3.3.4
Using Disk Groups with Oracle Database Files on Oracle ASM
3.3.4.1
Using Existing Oracle Database Disk Groups on Oracle ASM
3.3.4.2
Creating Disk Groups for Oracle Database Data Files
3.3.5
Configuring Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System
3.3.6
Upgrading Existing Oracle ASM Instances
3.4
Desupport of Raw Disks
4
Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster
4.1
Preparing to Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure with OUI
4.2
Installing Grid Infrastructure
4.2.1
Running OUI to Install Grid Infrastructure
4.2.2
Installing Grid Infrastructure Using a Cluster Configuration File
4.3
Installing Grid Infrastructure Using a Software-Only Installation
4.3.1
Installing the Software Binaries
4.3.2
Configuring the Software Binaries
4.3.3
Configuring the Software Binaries Using a Response File
4.4
Restrictions for Oracle Berkeley DB
4.5
Confirming Oracle Clusterware Function
4.6
Confirming Oracle ASM Function for Oracle Clusterware Files
4.7
Confirming Oracle Clusterware Function
5
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Postinstallation Procedures
5.1
Required Postinstallation Tasks
5.1.1
Download and Install Patch Updates
5.2
Recommended Postinstallation Tasks
5.2.1
Back Up the root.sh Script
5.2.2
Tune Semaphore Parameters
5.2.3
Create 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 RACcheck 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 From Oracle Restart to Oracle Clusterware
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.2
Interpreting CVU "Unknown" Output Messages Using Verbose Mode
A.3
Interpreting CVU Messages About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Setup
A.4
About the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Alert Log
A.5
Troubleshooting Issues on AIX
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
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
Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Installation Concepts
C.1
Understanding Preinstallation Configuration
C.1.1
Understanding Oracle Groups and Users
C.1.1.1
Understanding the Oracle Inventory Group
C.1.1.2
Understanding the Oracle Inventory Directory
C.1.2
Understanding the Oracle Base Directory Path
C.1.2.1
Overview of the Oracle Base directory
C.1.2.2
Understanding Oracle Base and Grid Infrastructure Directories
C.1.3
Understanding Network Addresses
C.1.3.1
About the Public IP Address
C.1.3.2
About the Private IP Address
C.1.3.3
About the Virtual IP Address
C.1.3.4
About the Grid Naming Service (GNS) Virtual IP Address
C.1.3.5
About the SCAN
C.1.4
Understanding Network Time Requirements
C.2
Understanding Storage Configuration
C.2.1
Understanding Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System
C.2.2
About Migrating Existing Oracle ASM Instances
C.2.3
About Converting Standalone Oracle ASM Installations to Clustered Installations
C.3
Understanding Server Pools
C.3.1
Overview of Server Pools and Policy-based Management
C.3.2
How Server Pools Work
C.3.3
The Free Server Pool
C.3.4
The Generic Server Pool
C.4
Understanding Out-of-Place Upgrade
D
How to Complete Installation Prerequisite Tasks Manually
D.1
Configuring SSH Manually on All Cluster Nodes
D.1.1
Checking Existing SSH Configuration on the System
D.1.2
Configuring SSH on Cluster Nodes
D.1.2.1
Create SSH Directory, and Create SSH Keys On Each Node
D.1.2.2
Add All Keys to a Common authorized_keys File
D.1.3
Enabling SSH User Equivalency on Cluster Nodes
E
How to Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2
E.1
Back Up the Oracle Software Before Upgrades
E.2
Unset Oracle Environment Variables
E.3
About Oracle ASM and Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation and Upgrade
E.4
Restrictions for Clusterware and Oracle ASM Upgrades
E.5
Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
E.5.1
Checks to Complete Before Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
E.5.2
Running the Oracle RACcheck Upgrade Readiness Assessment
E.6
Using CVU to Validate Readiness for Oracle Clusterware Upgrades
E.6.1
About the CVU Grid Upgrade Validation Command Options
E.6.2
Example of Verifying System Upgrade Readiness for Grid Infrastructure
E.6.3
Verifying System Readiness for Oracle Database Upgrades
E.7
Performing Rolling Upgrades From an Earlier Release
E.7.1
Performing a Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Clusterware
E.7.2
Performing a Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Automatic Storage Management
E.7.2.1
Preparing to Upgrade Oracle ASM
E.7.2.2
Upgrading Oracle ASM
E.8
Updating DB Control and Grid Control Target Parameters
E.9
Unlocking the Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
E.10
Downgrading Oracle Clusterware After an Upgrade
E.11
Checking Cluster Health Monitor Repository Size After Upgrading
Index
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