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Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition using Oracle Real Application Clusters on IBM BladeCenter running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and IBM System Storage DS4800
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents........................................................................................................................2 Abstract........................................................................................................................................1 Prerequisites ...............................................................................................................................1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................1
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 new features........................................................................................ 1 High Availability ................................................................................................................. 1 Performance and scalability .............................................................................................. 2 Security.............................................................................................................................. 2 Clustering .......................................................................................................................... 2 Manageability .................................................................................................................... 2 About Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 .......................................................................... 3 About IBM BladeCenter ........................................................................................................................... 3 About IBM System Storage DS4800 ....................................................................................................... 5
Setting up network files ................................................................................................... 17 Configuring SSH on all cluster nodes.............................................................................. 17 Configuring ASMLib......................................................................................................... 17 Creating ASM disks ......................................................................................................... 18 Running Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) ....................................................................... 19 Performing Oracle Clusterware installation and Automatic Storage Management Installation ............. 21
Performing post-installation tasks ..........................................................................................32 Installing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.1) ..............................................................34
Pre-Installation tasks.............................................................................................................................. 34 Running Cluster Verification Utility .................................................................................. 34 Preparing Oracle home and its path................................................................................ 37 Performing database installation ........................................................................................................... 37 Post-installation tasks ............................................................................................................................ 46
Summary....................................................................................................................................47 References.................................................................................................................................48
Oracle documentation............................................................................................................................ 48 IBM documentation ................................................................................................................................ 48 IBM and Oracle Web sites ..................................................................................................................... 48
Appendix B: List of common abbreviations and acronyms..................................................51 Appendix C: Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant with ACFS (ASMCA).............................52
Creating Oracle ASM Disk Groups ........................................................................................................ 52 Creating Oracle ACFS for Oracle Database home................................................................................ 55 Creating ACFS for a General Purpose Filesystem................................................................................ 57
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to assist those who are looking to implement Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) running on IBM BladeCenter servers and IBM System Storage products. The information provided herein is based on experiences with test environments at the IBM Oracle International Competency Center, and is based on available documentation from IBM, Oracle, and Red Hat. This paper does not cover the setting up of the shared disk for Oracle RAC.
Prerequisites