Friday, August 22, 2008

Oracle RAC Installation Step 2 - Perform Oracle Clusterware installation



$ /cdrom/clusterware/runInstaller

Specifying the Inventory Directory
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-Enter the full path of the inventory directory
/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory

-Specify Operating System group name
oinstall

Specify Home Details
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Name : OracCrs10g_home
Path: /u01/crs1020


Product-Specific Prerequisite Checks
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0 requirements to be verified ( 0 requirements 0 warnings) --else check manually


Specify Cluster Configuration
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Cluster Name : cluster1
Cluster Nodes :
Public Node Name Private Node Name Virtual Host name
node1.us.oracle.com node1-priv.us.oracle.com node1-vip.us.oracle.com
node2.us.oracle.com node2-priv.us.oracle.com node2-vip.us.oracle.com


Specify Network Interface Usage
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Interface name Subnet Interface Type
eth0 192.68.10.128 Public
eth1 192.68.15.120 Do Not Use
eth2 191.2.10.110 Private


Oracle Cluster Registry File
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Specify Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) Location -OCR stores cluster and database config info

check -- External Redundancy # OCR cannot be stored into ASM file system so store it in Raw file system

Specify OCR Location: /dev/raw/raw1 --requires 100MB free space

Specify Voting Disk Location
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Specify Voting Disk Location --Voting disk contains cluster membership info and arbitrates cluster ownership among the nodes of your cluster in the event of netwok failure

check -- External Redundancy # OCR cannot be stored into ASM file system so store it in Raw file system

Specify OCR Location: /dev/raw/raw1

Start Install
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Run Configuration Scripts on All Nodes
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/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh -- node1, node2
/u01/crs_10.2.0/root.sh -- node1, node2


Verifying Oracle Clusterware Installation
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Check for Oracle Clusterware processes with the ps command and crsctl
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$ ps -ef grep css

$ crsctl check css
CSS appears healthy

$ crsctl check crs
CSS appears healthy
CRS appears healthy
EVM appears healthy

Check the Oracle Clusterware startup entries in the /etc/inittab file

# cat /etc/inittab
#Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
h1:35:respawn:/etc/init.d/init.evmd run >/dev/null 2>&1 /dev/null 2>&1 /dev/null 2>&1

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