1. 3 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Installation and Administration Basics

2. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 2 Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to describe: Oracle RAC 10g installation Cluster Database Home page Topology Viewer Archived log file configurations

3. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 3 Oracle RAC 10g Installation: Outline 1.Complete preinstallation tasks: –Hardware requirements –Software requirements –Environment configuration, kernel parameters, and so on 2.Perform Oracle Clusterware installation. 3.Perform ASM installation. 4.Perform Oracle Database 10g software installation. 5.Perform cluster database creation. 6.Complete postinstallation tasks.

4. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 4 Preinstallation Tasks Check system requirements. Check software requirements. Check kernel parameters. Create groups and users. Perform cluster setup.

5. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 5 Cluster Setup Tasks 1.View the Certifications by Product section at: http://metalink.oracle.com/. 2.Verify your high-speed interconnects. 3.Determine the shared storage (disk) option for your system: –OCFS or other shared file system solution –Raw devices –ASM ASM cannot be used for the OCR and Voting Disk files! 4.Install the necessary operating system patches.

6. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 6 Verifying Cluster Setup with cluvfy Install the cvuqdisk rpm required for cluvfy : Run the cluvfy utility as oracle as shown below: # su root # cd /stage/10201-production/clusterware/rpm # export CVUQDISK_GRP=dba # rpm -iv cvuqdisk-1.0.1-1.rpm # cd /u01/stage/10gR2/clusterware/cluvfy./runcluvfy.sh stage -post hwos -n all -verbose

7. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 7 Installing Oracle Clusterware $ /cdrom/clusterware/runInstaller

8. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 8 Installing Automatic Storage Management $ id oracle $ /cdrom/database/runInstaller

9. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 9 Installing the Database Software $ /cdrom/database/runInstaller

10. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 10 Cluster Database Home Page

11. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 11 Cluster Database Home Page

12. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 12 Topology Viewer

13. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 13 Archived Log File Configurations Cluster file system scheme: Each instance can write to the same archive log destination. Local archive with NFS scheme: Each instance can read mounted archive destinations of all instances.

14. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 14 RAC and the Flash Recovery Area Flash recovery area Shared NFS directory ASM Cluster file system

15. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 15 Oracle Recovery Manager RMAN provides the following benefits for Real Application Clusters: Can read cluster files or raw partitions with no configuration changes Can access multiple archive log destinations Recovery catalog Recovery Manager Backup storage Oracle Server process Snapshot control file Oracle database Stored scripts Archived log files

16. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 16 RAC Backup and Recovery Using EM

17. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 17 Demos Specific Grid Control topics: Cloning Conversion from single-instance to RAC http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/demos/admin/demos.html

18. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 3 - 18 Summary In this lesson, you should have learned about: Oracle RAC 10g installation Cluster Database Home Page Topology Viewer Archived log file configurations