Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide For Linux RAC 09 PDF 121 GRIDInstallation And Upgrade E48914 22
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- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Changes in This Release for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide
- 1 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Checklist
- 1.1 System Hardware, Software and Configuration Checklists
- 1.1.1 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Server Hardware Checklist
- 1.1.2 Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC Environment Checklist
- 1.1.3 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Network Checklist
- 1.1.4 Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC Upgrades Checklist
- 1.1.5 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Storage Configuration Tasks
- 1.1.6 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Starting the Installation Tasks
- 1.1 System Hardware, Software and Configuration Checklists
- 2 Configuring Servers for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
- 3 Automatically Configuring Oracle Linux with Oracle Preinstallation RPM
- 3.1 Overview of Oracle Linux Configuration with Oracle RPMs
- 3.2 Installing the Oracle Preinstallation RPM From Unbreakable Linux Network
- 3.3 Installing Oracle Linux with Oracle Linux Yum Server Support
- 3.4 Installing the Oracle Preinstallation RPM From DVDs or Images
- 3.5 Additional Optional Operating System Configuration Tasks
- 3.6 Required System Configuration for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- 4 Configuring Operating Systems for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
- 4.1 Guidelines for Linux Operating System Installation
- 4.2 Reviewing Operating System and Software Upgrade Best Practices
- 4.3 Reviewing Operating System Security Common Practices
- 4.4 Using Installation Fixup Scripts
- 4.5 Logging In to a Remote System Using X Terminal
- 4.6 Using Oracle RPM Checker on IBM: Linux on System z
- 4.7 About Operating System Requirements
- 4.8 Operating System Requirements for x86-64 Linux Platforms
- 4.8.1 Supported Oracle Linux 7 and Red Hat Linux 7 Distributions for x86-64
- 4.8.2 Supported Oracle Linux 6 and Red Hat Linux 6 Distributions for x86-64
- 4.8.3 Supported Oracle Linux 5 and Red Hat Linux 5 Distributions for x86-64
- 4.8.4 Supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Distributions for x86-64
- 4.8.5 Supported NeoKylin Linux Advanced Server Distributions for x86-64
- 4.9 Operating System Requirements for IBM: Linux on System z
- 4.9.1 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z
- 4.9.2 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z
- 4.9.3 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z
- 4.9.4 Supported SUSE Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z
- 4.10 Additional Drivers and Software Packages for Linux
- 4.10.1 Installation Requirements for Open Database Connectivity
- 4.10.2 Installation Requirements for PAM on Linux
- 4.10.3 Installation Requirements for OCFS2
- 4.10.4 Installation Requirements for Oracle Messaging Gateway
- 4.10.5 Installation Requirements for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- 4.10.6 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for Linux
- 4.10.7 Installation Requirements for Web Browsers
- 4.11 Checking the Software Requirements
- 4.12 Installing the cvuqdisk RPM for Linux
- 4.13 Checking Shared Memory File System Mount on Linux
- 4.14 Enabling the Name Service Cache Daemon
- 4.15 Setting the Disk I/O Scheduler on Linux
- 4.16 Setting Network Time Protocol for Cluster Time Synchronization
- 4.17 Using Automatic SSH Configuration During Installation
- 5 Configuring Networks for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
- 5.1 Network Interface Hardware Requirements
- 5.2 IP Interface Configuration Requirements
- 5.3 Private Interconnect Redundant Network Requirements
- 5.4 IPv4 and IPv6 Protocol Requirements
- 5.5 Oracle Grid Infrastructure IP Name and Address Requirements
- 5.5.1 About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Name Resolution Options
- 5.5.2 Cluster Name and SCAN Requirements
- 5.5.3 IP Name and Address Requirements For Grid Naming Service (GNS)
- 5.5.4 IP Name and Address Requirements For Multi-Cluster GNS
- 5.5.5 IP Name and Address Requirements for Standard Cluster Manual Configuration
- 5.5.6 Confirming the DNS Configuration for SCAN
- 5.6 About Oracle Flex ASM Clusters Networks
- 5.7 Broadcast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- 5.8 Multicast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- 5.9 Domain Delegation to Grid Naming Service
- 5.10 Configuration Requirements for Oracle Flex Clusters
- 5.11 Grid Naming Service Standard Cluster Configuration Example
- 5.12 Manual IP Address Configuration Example
- 5.13 Network Interface Configuration Options
- 5.14 Multiple Private Interconnects and Oracle Linux
- 6 Configuring Users, Groups and Environments for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
- 6.1 Creating Groups, Users and Paths for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- 6.1.1 Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists
- 6.1.2 Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist
- 6.1.3 Creating the Oracle Grid Infrastructure User
- 6.1.4 About the Oracle Base Directory for the Grid User
- 6.1.5 About the Oracle Home Directory for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software
- 6.1.6 Creating the Oracle Home and Oracle Base Directory
- 6.1.7 About Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and Users
- 6.1.8 Descriptions of Job Role Separation Groups and Users
- 6.1.9 Creating Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and User
- 6.1.9.1 Creating the OSDBA Group to Prepare for Database Installations
- 6.1.9.2 Creating an OSOPER Group for Database Installations
- 6.1.9.3 Creating the OSASM Group
- 6.1.9.4 Creating the OSOPER for ASM Group
- 6.1.9.5 Creating the OSDBA for ASM Group for Database Access to Oracle ASM
- 6.1.9.6 Oracle Software Owner User Installation Tasks
- 6.1.9.7 Creating Identical Database Users and Groups on Other Cluster Nodes
- 6.1.10 Example of Creating Minimal Groups, Users, and Paths
- 6.1.11 Example of Creating Role-allocated Groups, Users, and Paths
- 6.2 Configuring Grid Infrastructure Software Owner User Environments
- 6.2.1 Environment Requirements for Oracle Software Owners
- 6.2.2 Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments
- 6.2.3 Checking Resource Limits for the Oracle Software Installation Users
- 6.2.4 Setting Remote Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration
- 6.2.5 Preventing Installation Errors Caused by Terminal Output Commands
- 6.3 Enabling Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
- 6.4 Determining Root Script Execution Plan
- 6.1 Creating Groups, Users and Paths for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- 7 Configuring Storage for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
- 7.1 Reviewing Oracle Grid Infrastructure Storage Options
- 7.1.1 Supported Storage Options
- 7.1.2 About Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM
- 7.1.3 General Storage Considerations for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
- 7.1.4 Guidelines for Using Oracle ASM Disk Groups for Storage
- 7.1.5 Using Logical Volume Managers with Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
- 7.1.6 After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
- 7.2 About Shared File System Storage Configuration
- 7.2.1 Guidelines for Using a Shared File System with Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- 7.2.2 Requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Shared File System Volume Sizes
- 7.2.3 Deciding to Use a Cluster File System for Oracle Clusterware Files
- 7.2.4 About Direct NFS Client and Data File Storage
- 7.2.5 Deciding to Use NFS for Data Files
- 7.3 Configuring Operating System and Direct NFS Client
- 7.3.1 Configuring Operating System NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters
- 7.3.2 Checking Operating System NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters
- 7.3.3 Checking NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters for Oracle RAC
- 7.3.4 Checking TCP Network Protocol Buffer for Direct NFS Client
- 7.3.5 Enabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Manager Control of NFS
- 7.3.6 Enabling Hybrid Columnar Compression on Direct NFS Client
- 7.3.7 Specifying Network Paths with the Oranfstab File
- 7.3.8 Creating Directories for Oracle Clusterware Files on Shared File Systems
- 7.3.9 Creating Directories for Oracle Database Files on Shared File Systems
- 7.3.10 Disabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Management Control of NFS
- 7.4 Oracle Automatic Storage Management Storage Configuration
- 7.5 Configuring Raw Logical Volumes on IBM: Linux on System z
- 7.1 Reviewing Oracle Grid Infrastructure Storage Options
- 8 Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster
- 9 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Postinstallation Procedures
- 9.1 Required Postinstallation Tasks
- 9.2 Recommended Postinstallation Tasks
- 9.3 Using Earlier Oracle Database Releases with Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- 9.3.1 General Restrictions for Using Earlier Oracle Database Versions
- 9.3.2 Managing Server Pools with Earlier Database Versions
- 9.3.3 Making Oracle ASM Available to Earlier Oracle Database Releases
- 9.3.4 Using ASMCA to Administer Disk Groups for Earlier Database Versions
- 9.3.5 Pinning Cluster Nodes for Oracle Database Release 10.x or 11.x
- 9.3.6 Using the Correct LSNRCTL Commands
- 9.4 Modifying Oracle Clusterware Binaries After Installation
- 10 How to Modify or Deinstall Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- 10.1 Deciding When to Deinstall Oracle Clusterware
- 10.2 Migrating Standalone Grid Infrastructure Servers to a Cluster
- 10.3 Relinking Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Binaries
- 10.4 Changing the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Path
- 10.5 Unconfiguring Oracle Clusterware Without Removing Binaries
- 10.6 Removing Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM
- A.1 Best Practices for Contacting Oracle Support
- A.2 General Installation Issues
- A.3 Interpreting CVU "Unknown" Output Messages Using Verbose Mode
- A.4 Interpreting CVU Messages About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Setup
- A.5 About the Oracle Clusterware Alert Log
- A.6 Missing Operating System Packages On Linux
- A.7 Performing Cluster Diagnostics During Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installations
- A.8 About Using CVU Cluster Healthchecks After Installation
- A.9 Interconnect Configuration Issues
- A.10 SCAN VIP and SCAN Listener Issues
- A.11 Storage Configuration Issues
- A.12 Failed or Incomplete Installations and Upgrades
- B.1 Back Up the Oracle Software Before Upgrades
- B.2 About Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle ASM Upgrade and Downgrade
- B.3 Options for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrades and Downgrades
- B.4 Restrictions and Guidelines for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrades
- B.5 Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
- B.6 Using CVU to Validate Readiness for Oracle Clusterware Upgrades
- B.7 Understanding Rolling Upgrades Using Batches
- B.8 Performing Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- B.9 Restrictions and Guidelines for Upgrading and Patching Oracle ASM
- B.10 Performing Rolling Upgrade of Oracle ASM
- B.11 Applying Patches to Oracle ASM
- B.12 Updating Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Target Parameters
- B.13 Unlocking the Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
- B.14 Checking Cluster Health Monitor Repository Size After Upgrading
- B.15 Downgrading Oracle Clusterware After an Upgrade
- C.1 How Response Files Work
- C.2 Preparing a Response File
- C.3 Running the Installer Using a Response File
- C.4 Running Net Configuration Assistant Using a Response File
- C.5 Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File
- D.1 Overview of HugePages
- D.2 Restrictions for HugePage Configurations
- D.3 Disabling Transparent HugePages
- E.1 Understanding Preinstallation Configuration
- E.1.1 Optimal Flexible Architecture Guidelines for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- E.1.2 Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle Restart Differences
- E.1.3 Understanding the Oracle Inventory Group
- E.1.4 Understanding the Oracle Inventory Directory
- E.1.5 Understanding the Oracle Base directory
- E.1.6 Understanding the Oracle Home for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software
- E.1.7 Location of Oracle Base and Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Directories
- E.2 Understanding Network Addresses
- E.3 Understanding Network Time Requirements
- E.4 Understanding Oracle Flex Clusters and Oracle ASM Flex Clusters
- E.5 Understanding Storage Configuration
- E.6 Understanding Out-of-Place Upgrade
- F.1 Configuring SSH Manually on All Cluster Nodes
- F.2 Configuring Kernel Parameters
- F.3 Setting UDP and TCP Kernel Parameters Manually
- F.4 Configuring Storage Paths and Disk Devices
- F.4.1 Configuring Storage Device Path Persistence Using Oracle ASMLIB
- F.4.1.1 About Oracle ASM with Oracle ASMLIB
- F.4.1.2 Configuring Oracle ASMLIB to Maintain Block Devices
- F.4.1.2.1 Installing and Configuring the Oracle ASM Library Driver Software
- F.4.1.2.2 Configuring Disk Devices to Use Oracle ASM Library Driver on x86 Systems
- F.4.1.2.3 Configuring Disk Devices to Use ASM Library Driver on IBM zSeries Systems
- F.4.1.2.4 Administering the Oracle ASM Library Driver and Disks
- F.4.1.3 Configuring Oracle ASMLIB for Multipath Disks
- F.4.1.4 Deinstalling Oracle ASMLIB
- F.4.2 Configuring Disk Devices Manually for Oracle ASM
- F.4.1 Configuring Storage Device Path Persistence Using Oracle ASMLIB
- F.5 Checking OCFS2 Version Manually
- Index