This section describes new features as they pertain to the installation and configuration of Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management), and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). This guide replaces Oracle Clusterware Installation Guide. The topics in this section are:
The following is a list of options desupported with this release:
With this release, OUI no longer supports installation of Oracle Clusterware files on block or raw devices. Install Oracle Clusterware files either on Oracle Automatic Storage Management diskgroups, or in a supported shared file system.
The following is a list of new features for Release 2 (11.2.0.3):
With 11.2.0.3.0, Cluster Health Monitor (CHM) is available on AIX. Cluster Health Monitor gathers operating system metrics in real time, and stores them in its repository for later analysis, so that it can determine the root cause of many Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC issues with the assistance of Oracle Support.
Cluster Health Monitor also works in conjunction with Oracle Database Quality of Service Management (QoS) by providing metrics to detect memory over-commitment on a node. QoS Management can shut down services on overloaded nodes to relieve stress, to and preserve existing workloads.
To support QoS Management, Oracle Database Resource Manager and metrics have been enhanced to support fine-grained performance metrics, and also can manage workloads with user-defined performance classes.
ACFS (including ACFS Snapshots) and ADVM are supported on both AIX 7.1 and AIX 6.1 TL4 SP2 and later updates to AIX 6.1 (on PPC64 only).
If nodes become unreachable in the middle of an upgrade, starting with release 11.2.0.3, you can run the rootupgrade.sh script with the -force flag to force an upgrade to complete.
The following is a list of new features for Release 2 (11.2.0.2):
The Oracle Grid Infrastructure Configuration Wizard enables you to configure the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software after performing a software-only installation. You no longer have to manually edit the config_params configuration file as this wizard takes you through the process, step by step.
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See Also: Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide for more information about the configuration wizard. |
Starting with the release of the 11.2.0.2 patch set for Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2 (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management), Oracle Grid Infrastructure patch sets are full installations of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software. Note the following changes with the new patch set packaging:
Direct upgrades from previous releases (11.x, 10.x) to the most recent patch set are supported.
New installations consist of installing the most recent patch set, rather than installing a base release and then upgrading to a patch release.
Out-of-place patch set upgrades only are supported. An out-of-place upgrade is one in which you install the patch set into a new, separate home.
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See Also: My Oracle Support note 1176177, "Important Changes to Oracle Database Patch Sets Starting With 11.2.0.2", available from the following URL: |
Oracle ASM 11g release 2 (11.2.0.2) and later for AIX provides support for Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS), including ACFS Snapshots, and Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (ADVM).
ACFS (including ACFS Snapshots) and ADVM are supported only on AIX 6.1 TL4 SP2 and later updates to AIX 6.1 (on PPC64 only).
Cluster Health Monitor gathers operating system metrics in real time, and stores them in its repository for later analysis, so that it can determine the root cause of many Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC issues with the assistance of Oracle Support.
Cluster Health Monitor also works in conjunction with Oracle Database Quality of Service Management (QoS) by providing metrics to detect memory over-commitment on a node. QoS Management can shut down services on overloaded nodes to relieve stress, to and preserve existing workloads.
To support QoS Management, Oracle Database Resource Manager and metrics have been enhanced to support fine-grained performance metrics, and also can manage workloads with user-defined performance classes.
During installation, in the Privileged Operating System Groups window, it is now optional to designate a group as the OSOPER for ASM group. If you choose to create an OSOPER for ASM group, then you can enter a group name configured on all cluster member nodes for the OSOPER for ASM group. In addition, the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner no longer is required to be a member.
Use the Software Updates feature to dynamically download and apply software updates as part of the Oracle Database installation. You can also download the updates separately using the download Updates option and later apply them during the installation by providing the location where the updates are present.
In previous releases, to make use of redundant networks for the interconnect, bonding, trunking, teaming, or similar technology was required. Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC can now make use of redundant network interconnects, without the use of other network technology, to enhance optimal communication in the cluster. This functionality is available starting with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2).
Redundant Interconnect Usage enables load-balancing and high availability across multiple (up to four) private networks (also known as interconnects).
The Database Quality of Service (QoS) Management Server allows system administrators to manage application service levels hosted in Oracle Database clusters by correlating accurate run-time performance and resource metrics and analyzing with an expert system to produce recommended resource adjustments to meet policy-based performance objectives.
The following is a list of new features for installation of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM 11g release 2 (11.2):
With Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2 (11.2), Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) and Oracle Clusterware are installed into a single home directory, which is referred to as the Grid Infrastructure home. Configuration assistants start after the installer interview process that configures Oracle ASM and Oracle Clusterware.
The installation of the combined products is called Oracle Grid Infrastructure. However, Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management remain separate products.
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See Also: Oracle Database Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit) for information about how to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Oracle ASM and Oracle Clusterware binaries) for a standalone server. This feature helps to ensure high availability for single-instance servers |
With this release, Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and voting disks can be placed on Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM).
This feature enables Oracle ASM to provide a unified storage solution, storing all the data for the clusterware and the database, without the need for third-party volume managers or cluster filesystems.
For new installations, OCR and voting disk files can be placed either on Oracle ASM, or on a cluster file system or NFS system. Installing Oracle Clusterware files on raw or block devices is no longer supported, unless an existing system is being upgraded.
The SYSASM privilege that was introduced in Oracle ASM 11g release 1 (11.1) is now fully separated from the SYSDBA privilege. If you choose to use this optional feature, and designate different operating system groups as the OSASM and the OSDBA groups, then the SYSASM administrative privilege is available only to members of the OSASM group. The SYSASM privilege also can be granted using password authentication on the Oracle ASM instance.
You can designate OPERATOR privileges (a subset of the SYSASM privileges, including starting and stopping ASM) to members of the OSOPER for ASM group.
Providing system privileges for the storage tier using the SYSASM privilege instead of the SYSDBA privilege provides a clearer division of responsibility between Oracle ASM administration and database administration, and helps to prevent different databases using the same storage from accidentally overwriting each other's files.
Cluster node times should be synchronized. With this release, Oracle Clusterware provides Cluster Time Synchronization Service (CTSS), which ensures that there is a synchronization service in the cluster. If Network Time Protocol (NTP) is not found during cluster configuration, then CTSS is configured to ensure time synchronization.
Enterprise Manager Database Control 11g provides the capability to automatically provision Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC installations on new nodes, and then extend the existing Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC database to these provisioned nodes. This provisioning procedure requires a successful Oracle RAC installation before you can use this feature.
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See Also: Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide for information about this feature |
With Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2), the installer (OUI) detects when minimum requirements for installation are not completed, and creates shell script programs, called fixup scripts, to resolve many incomplete system configuration requirements. If OUI detects an incomplete task that is marked "fixable", then you can easily fix the issue by generating the fixup script by clicking the Fix & Check Again button.
The fixup script is generated during installation. You are prompted to run the script as root in a separate terminal session. When you run the script, it raises kernel values to required minimums, if necessary, and completes other operating system configuration tasks.
You also can have Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) generate fixup scripts before installation.
In the past, adding or removing servers in a cluster required extensive manual preparation. With this release, you can continue to configure server nodes manually, or use Grid Plug and Play to configure them dynamically as nodes are added or removed from the cluster.
Grid Plug and Play reduces the costs of installing, configuring, and managing server nodes by starting a grid naming service within the cluster to allow each node to perform the following tasks dynamically:
Negotiating appropriate network identities for itself
Acquiring additional information it needs to operate from a configuration profile
Configuring or reconfiguring itself using profile data, making hostnames and addresses resolvable on the network
Because servers perform these tasks dynamically, the number of steps required to add or delete nodes is minimized.
With this release, you can install a new version of Oracle Clusterware into a separate home from an existing Oracle Clusterware installation. This feature reduces the downtime required to upgrade a node in the cluster. When performing an out-of-place upgrade, the old and new version of the software are present on the nodes at the same time, each in a different home location, but only one version of the software is active.
With this release, you can use Oracle Enterprise Manager Cluster Home page to perform full administrative and monitoring support for both standalone database and Oracle RAC environments, using High Availability Application and Oracle Cluster Resource Management.
When Oracle Enterprise Manager is installed with Oracle Clusterware, it can provide a set of users that have the Oracle Clusterware Administrator role in Oracle Enterprise Manager, and provide full administrative and monitoring support for High Availability application and Oracle Clusterware resource management. After you have completed installation and have Oracle Enterprise Manager deployed, you can provision additional nodes added to the cluster using Oracle Enterprise Manager.
With this release, the single client access name (SCAN) is the host name to provide for all clients connecting to the cluster. The SCAN is a domain name registered to at least one and up to three IP addresses, either in the domain name service (DNS) or the Grid Naming Service (GNS). The SCAN eliminates the need to change clients when nodes are added to or removed from the cluster. Clients using the SCAN can also access the cluster using EZCONNECT.
With this release, you can use srvctl to shut down all Oracle software running within an Oracle home, in preparation for patching. Oracle Grid Infrastructure patching is automated across all nodes, and patches can be applied in a multi-node, multi-patch fashion.
To streamline cluster installations, especially for those customers who are new to clustering, Oracle introduces the Typical Installation path. Typical installation defaults as many options as possible to those recommended as best practices.
In prior releases, backing up the voting disks using a dd command was a required postinstallation task. With Oracle Clusterware release 11.2 and later, backing up and restoring a voting disk using the dd command is not supported.
Backing up voting disks manually is no longer required, as voting disks are backed up automatically in the OCR as part of any configuration change and voting disk data is automatically restored to any added voting disks.
The following is a list of new features for release 1 (11.1)
With Oracle Database 11g release 1, Oracle Clusterware can be installed or configured as an independent product, and additional documentation is provided on storage administration. For installation planning, note the following documentation:
This book provides an overview and examples of the procedures to install and configure a two-node Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC environment.
This book (the guide that you are reading) provides procedures either to install Oracle Clusterware as a standalone product, or to install Oracle Clusterware with either Oracle Database, or Oracle RAC. It contains system configuration instructions that require system administrator privileges.
This platform-specific book provides procedures to install Oracle RAC after you have completed successfully an Oracle Clusterware installation. It contains database configuration instructions for database administrators.
This book provides information for database and storage administrators who administer and manage storage, or who configure and administer Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM).
This is the administrator's reference for Oracle Clusterware. It contains information about administrative tasks, including those that involve changes to operating system configurations and cloning Oracle Clusterware.
This is the administrator's reference for Oracle RAC. It contains information about administrative tasks. These tasks include database cloning, node addition and deletion, Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) administration, use of SRVCTL and other database administration utilities, and tuning changes to operating system configurations.
The following is a list of enhancements and new features for Oracle Database 11g release 1 (11.1).
This feature introduces a new SYSASM privilege that is specifically intended for performing ASM administration tasks. Using the SYSASM privilege instead of the SYSDBA privilege provides a clearer division of responsibility between Oracle ASM administration and database administration.
OSASM is a new operating system group that is used exclusively for Oracle ASM. Members of the OSASM group can connect as SYSASM using operating system authentication and have full access to Oracle ASM.
This appendix describes how to perform Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management upgrades.
Oracle Clusterware upgrades can be rolling upgrades, in which a subset of nodes are brought down and upgraded while other nodes remain active. Oracle Automatic Storage Management 11g release 2 (11.2) upgrades can be rolling upgrades. If you upgrade a subset of nodes, then a software-only installation is performed on the existing cluster nodes that you do not select for upgrade.
This appendix contains the following topics:
About Oracle ASM and Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation and Upgrade
Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
Using CVU to Validate Readiness for Oracle Clusterware Upgrades
Checking Cluster Health Monitor Repository Size After Upgrading
Before you make any changes to the Oracle software, Oracle recommends that you create a backup of the Oracle software and databases.
Unset Oracle environment variables.
If you have set ORA_CRS_HOME as an environment variable, following instructions from Oracle Support, then unset it before starting an installation or upgrade. You should never use ORA_CRS_HOME as an environment variable except under explicit direction from Oracle Support.
Check to ensure that installation owner login shell profiles (for example, .profile or .cshrc) do not have ORA_CRS_HOME set.
If you have had an existing installation on your system, and you are using the same user account to install this installation, then unset the following environment variables: ORA_CRS_HOME; ORACLE_HOME; ORA_NLS10; TNS_ADMIN; and any other environment variable set for the Oracle installation user that is connected with Oracle software homes.
In past releases, Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) was installed as part of the Oracle Database installation. With Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2), Oracle ASM is installed when you install the Oracle Grid Infrastructure components and shares an Oracle home with Oracle Clusterware when installed in a cluster such as with Oracle RAC or with Oracle Restart on a standalone server.
If you have an existing Oracle ASM instance, you can either upgrade it at the time that you install Oracle Grid Infrastructure, or you can upgrade it after the installation, using Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA). However, be aware that a number of Oracle ASM features are disabled until you upgrade Oracle ASM, and Oracle Clusterware management of Oracle ASM does not function correctly until Oracle ASM is upgraded, because Oracle Clusterware only manages Oracle ASM when it is running in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home. For this reason, Oracle recommends that if you do not upgrade Oracle ASM at the same time as you upgrade Oracle Clusterware, then you should upgrade Oracle ASM immediately afterward.
You can perform out-of-place upgrades to an Oracle ASM instance using Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA). In addition to running ASMCA using the graphic user interface, you can run ASMCA in non-interactive (silent) mode.
In prior releases, you could use Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA) to upgrade either an Oracle Database, or Oracle ASM. That is no longer the case. You can only use DBUA to upgrade an Oracle Database instance. Use Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA) to upgrade Oracle ASM.
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See Also: Oracle Database Upgrade Guide and Oracle Database Storage Administrator's Guide for additional information about upgrading existing Oracle ASM installations |
Oracle recommends that you use CVU to check if here are any patches required for upgrading your existing Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2 or Oracle RAC database 11g Release 2 installations.
Be aware of the following restrictions and changes for upgrades to Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations, which consists of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM):
To upgrade existing Oracle Clusterware installations to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g, your release must be greater than or equal to 10.1.0.3, 10.2.0.3, 11.1.0.6, or 11.2.
To upgrade existing Oracle Grid Infrastructure from 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.3 or later, you must apply patch 11.2.0.2.1 (11.2.0.2 PSU 1) or later.
To upgrade existing 11.1 Oracle Clusterware installations to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.3 or later, you must patch the release 11.1 Oracle Clusterware home with the patch for bug 7308467.
If you have Oracle ACFS file systems on Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2 (11.2.0.1), you upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure to any later version (11.2.0.2 or 11.2.0.3), and you take advantage of Redundant Interconnect Usage and add one or more additional private interfaces to the private network, then you must restart the Oracle ASM instance on each upgraded cluster member node.
Do not delete directories in the Grid home. For example, do not delete Grid_home/Opatch. If you delete the directory, then the Grid infrastructure installation owner cannot use Opatch to patch the grid home, and Opatch displays the error "checkdir error: cannot create Grid_home/OPatch'
To upgrade existing 11.2.0.1 Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2, you must first verify if you need to apply any mandatory patches for upgrade to succeed. Refer to "Using CVU to Validate Readiness for Oracle Clusterware Upgrades" for steps to check readiness.
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See Also: "Oracle 11gR2 Upgrade Companion" Note 785351.1 on My Oracle Support: |
To upgrade existing Oracle Grid Infrastructure from 11.2.0.2, to 11.2.0.3 or later, you must apply patch 11.2.0.2.1 (11.2.0.2 PSU 1) or later.
To upgrade existing 11.1 Oracle Clusterware installations to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.3 or later, you must patch the release 11.1 Oracle Clusterware home with the patch for bug 7308467.
Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM upgrades are always out-of-place upgrades. With 11g release 2 (11.2), you cannot perform an in-place upgrade of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM to existing homes.
If the existing Oracle Clusterware home is a shared home, note that you can use a non-shared home for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster home for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM 11g release 2 (11.2).
With Oracle Clusterware 11g release 1 and later releases, the same user that owned the Oracle Clusterware 10g software must perform the Oracle Clusterware 11g upgrade. Before Oracle Database 11g, either all Oracle software installations were owned by the Oracle user, typically oracle, or Oracle Database software was owned by oracle, and Oracle Clusterware software was owned by a separate user, typically crs.
Oracle ASM and Oracle Clusterware both run in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home.
During a major version upgrade to 11g release 2 (11.2), the software in the 11g release 2 (11.2) Oracle Grid Infrastructure home is not fully functional until the upgrade is completed. Running srvctl, crsctl, and other commands from the 11g release 2 (11.2) home is not supported until the final rootupgrade.sh script is run and the upgrade is complete across all nodes.
To manage databases in the existing earlier version (release 10.x or 11.1) database homes during the Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrade, use the srvctl from the existing database homes.
During Oracle Clusterware installation, if there is a single instance Oracle ASM version on the local node, then it is converted to a clustered Oracle ASM 11g release 2 (11.2) installation, and Oracle ASM runs in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home on all nodes.
If a single instance (non-clustered) Oracle ASM installation is on a remote node, which is a node other than the local node (the node on which the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation is being performed), then it will remain a single instance Oracle ASM installation. However, during installation, if you select to place the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and voting disk files on Oracle ASM, then a clustered Oracle ASM installation is created on all nodes in the cluster, and the single instance Oracle ASM installation on the remote node will become nonfunctional.
If you have an existing Oracle Clusterware installation, then you upgrade your existing cluster by performing an out-of-place upgrade. You cannot perform an in-place upgrade.
Complete the following tasks before starting an upgrade:
For each node, use Cluster Verification Utility to ensure that you have completed preinstallation steps. It can generate Fixup scripts to help you to prepare servers. In addition, the installer will help you to ensure all required prerequisites are met.
Ensure that you have information you will need during installation, including the following:
An Oracle base location for Oracle Clusterware.
An Oracle Grid Infrastructure home location that is different from your existing Oracle Clusterware location
A SCAN address
Privileged user operating system groups to grant access to Oracle ASM data files (the OSDBA for ASM group), to grant administrative privileges to the Oracle ASM instance (OSASM group), and to grant a subset of administrative privileges to the Oracle ASM instance (OSOPER for ASM group)
root user access, to run scripts as root during installation
For the installation owner running the installation, if you have environment variables set for the existing installation, then unset the environment variables $ORACLE_HOME and $ORACLE_SID, as these environment variables are used during upgrade. For example:
$ unset ORACLE_BASE $ unset ORACLE_HOME $ unset ORACLE_SID
If you have AIX HACMP vendor clusterware on an Oracle Clusterware release 11.1 (11.1.0.7) cluster, then be prepared to do the following:
Install the new Clusterware version in a software-only installation.
Bring down the release 11.1.0.7 Oracle Clusterware stack.
Run the Oracle Grid Infrastructure release 11.2 rootpre.sh script
Run the Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2 rootupgrade.sh script.
Review the contents in this section to validate that your cluster is ready for upgrades.
Navigate to the staging area for the upgrade, where the runcluvfy.sh command is located, and run the command runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst -upgrade to check the readiness of your Oracle Clusterware installation for upgrades. Running runcluvfy.sh with the -pre crsinst -upgrade flags performs system checks to confirm if the cluster is in a correct state for upgrading from an existing clusterware installation.
The command uses the following syntax, where variable content is indicated by italics:
runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst -upgrade [-n node_list] [-rolling] -src_crshome src_Gridhome -dest_crshome dest_Gridhome -dest_version dest_version [-fixup[-fixupdir path]] [-verbose]
The options are:
-n nodelist
The -n flag indicates cluster member nodes, and nodelist the comma-delimited list of non-domain qualified node names on which you want to run a preupgrade verification. If you do not add the -n flag to the verification command, then all the nodes in the cluster are verified.
-rolling
Use this flag to verify readiness for rolling upgrades.
-src_crshome src_Gridhome
Use this flag to indicate the location of the source Oracle Clusterware or Grid home that you are upgrading, where src_Gridhome is the path to the home that you want to upgrade.
-dest_crshome dest_Gridhome
Use this flag to indicate the location of the upgrade Grid home, where dest_ Gridhome is the path to the Grid home.
-dest_version dest_version
Use the dest_version flag to indicate the release number of the upgrade, including any patchset. The release number must include the five digits designating the release to the level of the platform-specific patch. For example: 11.2.0.2.0.
-fixup [-fixupdir path]
Use the -fixup flag to indicate that you want to generate instructions for any required steps you need to complete to ensure that your cluster is ready for an upgrade. The default location is the CVU work directory. If you want to place the fixup instructions in a different directory, then add the flag -fixupdir, and provide the path to the directory where you want to put the instructions for required fixes.
-verbose
Use the -verbose flag to produce detailed output of individual checks
You can verify that the permissions required for installing Oracle Clusterware have been configured on the nodes node1 and node2 by running the following command:
$ ./runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst -upgrade -n node1,node2 -rolling -src_crshome /u01/app/grid/11.2.0.1 -dest_crshome /u01/app/grid/11.2.0.2 -dest_version 11.2.0.3.0 -fixup -fixupdirpath /home/grid/fixup -verbose
Use Cluster Verification Utility to assist you with system checks in preparation for starting a database upgrade. The installer runs the appropriate CVU checks automatically, and either prompts you to fix problems, or provides a fixup script to be run on all nodes in the cluster before proceeding with the upgrade.
Use the following procedures to upgrade Oracle Clusterware or Oracle Automatic Storage Management:
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Note: When you upgrade to Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2), Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) is installed in the same home as Oracle Clusterware. In Oracle documentation, this home is called the "grid infrastructure home," or Grid home. Also note that Oracle does not support attempting to add additional nodes to a cluster during a rolling upgrade. |
Use the following procedure to upgrade Oracle Clusterware from an earlier release to a later release:
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Note: Oracle recommends that you leave Oracle RAC instances running. When you start therootupgrade.sh script on each node, that node's instances are shut down and then started up again by the script.
For standalone Oracle Databases on the cluster, only those that use Oracle ASM need to be shut down. Listeners do not need to be shut down. |
Start the installer, and select the option to upgrade an existing Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM installation.
On the node selection page, select all nodes.
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Note: In contrast with releases prior to Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2, all upgrades are rolling upgrades, even if you select all nodes for the upgrade. If you are upgrading from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2, then all nodes are selected by default. You cannot select or de-select the nodes.Oracle recommends that you select all cluster member nodes for the upgrade, and then shut down database instances on each node before you run the upgrade |
Select installation options as prompted.
If you have an AIX HACMP vendor clusterware installation, then proceed to step 4.
If you do not have an HACMP cluster, then run the rootupgrade.sh script on each node in the cluster that you want to upgrade. The script shuts down the earlier release installation, replaces it with the new Oracle Clusterware release, and starts the new Oracle Clusterware installation.After the rootupgrade.sh script is run on a node, the upgraded Oracle Clusterware stack and AUTOSTART resources are started on the node.Run the rootupgrade.sh script on each node on which you are performing the rolling upgrade. Run the script on the local node first. After the script completes successfully, you can run the script in parallel on all nodes except for one, which you select as the last node. When the script is run successfully on all the nodes except the last node, run the script on the last node.
If you do not have an HACMP cluster, then proceed to step 9.
If you have AIX HACMP vendor clusterware on an Oracle Clusterware cluster, then start the installer one one node in the cluster, and select the option to upgrade an existing Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM installation.
For the HACMP cluster, shut down the previous release Oracle Clusterware software stack on the cluster node of the cluster.
Run the rootpre.sh script on the cluster node that you have shut down. The script shuts down the earlier release installation, replaces it with the new Oracle Clusterware release, and starts the new Oracle Clusterware installation.
After the rootpre.sh script is run on the node, run the Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2 rootupgrade.sh script. The upgraded Oracle Clusterware stack and AUTOSTART resources are started on the node.
After running the rootupgrade.sh script on the last node in the cluster, if you left the check box with ASMCA marked, as is the default, then ASM Configuration Assistant runs automatically, and the Oracle Clusterware upgrade is complete. If you unclicked the box on the interview stage of the upgrade, then ASMCA is not run automatically.
If an earlier version of Oracle Automatic Storage Management is installed, then the installer starts ASM Configuration Assistant to upgrade Oracle ASM to 11g release 2 (11.2). You can choose to upgrade Oracle ASM at this time, or upgrade it later.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade Oracle ASM at the same time that you upgrade the Oracle Clusterware binaries. Until ASM is upgraded, Oracle databases that use ASM can't be created. Until ASM is upgraded, the 11g release 2 (11.2) ASM management tools in the Grid home (for example, srvctl) will not work.
Because the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home is in a different location than the former Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM homes, update any scripts or applications that use utilities, libraries, or other files that reside in the Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM homes.
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Note: At the end of the upgrade, if you set the OCR backup location manually to the older release Oracle Clusterware home (CRS home), then you must change the OCR backup location to the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home (Grid home). If you did not set the OCR backup location manually, then this issue does not concern you.Because upgrades of Oracle Clusterware are out-of-place upgrades, the previous release Oracle Clusterware home cannot be the location of the OCR backups. Backups in the old Oracle Clusterware home could be deleted. |
After you have completed the Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2) upgrade, if you did not choose to upgrade Oracle ASM when you upgraded Oracle Clusterware, then you can do it separately using the Oracle Automatic Storage Management Configuration Assistant (asmca) to perform rolling upgrades.
You can use asmca to complete the upgrade separately, but you should do it soon after you upgrade Oracle Clusterware, as Oracle ASM management tools such as srvctl will not work until Oracle ASM is upgraded.
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Note: ASMCA performs a rolling upgrade only if the earlier version of Oracle ASM is either 11.1.0.6 or 11.1.0.7. Otherwise, ASMCA performs a normal upgrade, in which ASMCA brings down all Oracle ASM instances on all nodes of the cluster, and then brings them all up in the new Grid home. |
Note the following if you intend to perform rolling upgrades of Oracle ASM:
The active version of Oracle Clusterware must be 11g release 2 (11.2). To determine the active version, enter the following command:
$ crsctl query crs activeversion
You can upgrade a standalone Oracle ASM installation to a clustered Oracle ASM installation. However, you can only upgrade an existing standalone Oracle ASM installation if you run the installation from the node on which the Oracle ASM installation is installed. You cannot upgrade a single instance Oracle ASM installation on a remote node.
You must ensure that any rebalance operations on your existing Oracle ASM installation are completed before starting the upgrade process.
During the upgrade process, you alter the Ora/1cle ASM instances to an upgrade state. Because this upgrade state limits Oracle ASM operations, you should complete the upgrade process soon after you begin. The following are the operations allowed when an Oracle ASM instance is in the upgrade state:
Diskgroup mounts and dismounts
Opening, closing, resizing, or deleting database files
Recovering instances
Queries of fixed views and packages: Users are allowed to query fixed views and run anonymous PL/SQL blocks using fixed packages, such as dbms_diskgroup)
Complete the following procedure to upgrade Oracle ASM:
On the node you plan to start the upgrade, set the environment variable ASMCA_ROLLING_UPGRADE as true. For example:
$ export ASMCA_ROLLING_UPGRADE=true
From the Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2 (11.2) home, start ASMCA. For example:
$ cd /u01/11.2/grid/bin $ ./asmca
Select Upgrade.
ASM Configuration Assistant upgrades Oracle ASM in succession for all nodes in the cluster.
After you complete the upgrade, run the command to unset the ASMCA_ROLLING_UPGRADE environment variable.
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See Also: Oracle Database Upgrade Guide and Oracle Database Storage Administrator's Guide for additional information about preparing an upgrade plan for Oracle ASM, and for starting, completing, and stopping Oracle ASM upgrades |
Because Oracle Clusterware release 2 (11.2) is an out-of-place upgrade of the Oracle Clusterware home in a new location (the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster home, or Grid home), the path for the CRS_HOME parameter in some parameter files must be changed. If you do not change the parameter, then you encounter errors such as "cluster target broken on dbcontrol or Grid control.
Use the following procedure to resolve this issue:
Log in to dbconsole or gridconsole.
Navigate to the Cluster tab.
Click Monitoring Configuration
Update the value for Oracle Home with the new Grid home path.
After upgrade from previous releases, if you want to deinstall the previous release Oracle Grid Infrastructure Grid home, then you must first change the permission and ownership of the previous release Grid home. Log in as root, and change the permission and ownership of the previous release Grid home using the following command syntax, where oldGH is the previous release Grid home, swowner is the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner, and oldGHParent is the parent directory of the previous release Grid home:
For example:
#chmod -R 755 /u01/app/11.2.0.1/grid #chown -R grid /u01/app/11.2.0.1/grid #chown grid /u01/app/11.2.0.1
After a successful or a failed upgrade to Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2), you can restore Oracle Clusterware to the previous version.
The restoration procedure in this section restores the Clusterware configuration to the state it was in before the Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2) upgrade. Any configuration changes you performed during or after the 11g release 2 (11.2) upgrade are removed and cannot be recovered.
In the following procedure, the local node is the first node on which the rootupgrade script was run. The remote nodes are all other nodes that were upgraded.
To restore Oracle Clusterware to the previous release:
Use the downgrade procedure for the release to which you want to downgrade.
Downgrading to releases prior to 11g release 2 (11.2.0.1):
On all remote nodes, use the command syntax Grid_home/crs/install/rootcrs.pl -downgrade [-force] to stop the 11g release 2 (11.2) resources, shut down the 11g release 2 (11.2) stack.
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Note: This command does not reset the OCR, or deleteocr.loc. |
For example:
# /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/crs/install/rootcrs.pl -downgrade
If you want to stop a partial or failed 11g release 2 (11.2) installation and restore the previous release Oracle Clusterware, then use the -force flag with this command.
Downgrading to a release 11.2.0.1 or later release:
Use the command syntax /rootcrs.pl -downgrade -oldcrshome oldGridHomePath -version oldGridversion, where oldGridhomepath is the path to the previous release Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, and oldGridversion is the release to which you want to downgrade. For example:
/rootcrs.pl -downgrade -oldcrshome /u01/app/11.2.0/grid -version 11.2.0.1
If you want to stop a partial or failed 11g release 2 (11.2) installation and restore the previous release Oracle Clusterware, then use the -force flag with this command.
After the rootcrs.pl -downgrade script has completed on all remote nodes, on the local node use the command syntax Grid_home/crs/install/rootcrs.pl -downgrade -lastnode -oldcrshome pre11.2_crs_home -version pre11.2_crs_version [-force], where pre11.2_crs_home is the home of the earlier Oracle Clusterware installation, and pre11.2_crs_version is the release number of the earlier Oracle Clusterware installation.
For example:
# /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/crs/install/rootcrs.pl -downgrade -lastnode -oldcrshome /u01/app/crs -version 11.1.0.6.0
This script downgrades the OCR. If you want to stop a partial or failed 11g release 2 (11.2) installation and restore the previous release Oracle Clusterware, then use the -force flag with this command.
Log in as the Grid infrastructure installation owner, and run the following commands, where /u01/app/grid is the location of the new (upgraded) Grid home (11.2):
./runInstaller -nowait -waitforcompletion -ignoreSysPrereqs -updateNodeList -silent CRS=false ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/grid
As the Grid infrastructure installation owner, run the command ./runInstaller -nowait -waitforcompletion -ignoreSysPrereqs -updateNodeList -silent CRS=true ORACLE_HOME=pre11.2_crs_home, where pre11.2_crs_home represents the home directory of the earlier Oracle Clusterware installation.
For example:
./runInstaller -nowait -waitforcompletion -ignoreSysPrereqs -updateNodeList -silent CRS=true ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/crs
For downgrades to 11.2 and later releases
On each node, start Oracle Clusterware from the earlier release Oracle Clusterware home using the command crsctl start crs. For example, where the earlier release home is crshome11202, use the following command on each node:
crshome11202/bin/crsctl start crs
For downgrades to 11.1 and earlier releases
You are prompted to run root.sh from the earlier release Oracle Clusterware installation home in sequence on each member node of the cluster. After you complete this task, downgrade is completed.
Running root.sh from the earlier release Oracle Clusterware installation home restarts the Oracle Clusterware stack, starts up all the resources previously registered with Oracle Clusterware in the older version, and configures the old initialization scripts to run the earlier release Oracle Clusterware stack.
If you are upgrading from a prior release using IPD/OS to Oracle Grid Infrastructure release 2 (11.2.0.3 and later), then you should review the Cluster Health Monitor repository size (the CHM repository). Oracle recommends that you review your CHM repository needs, and enlarge the repository size if you want to maintain a larger CHM repository.
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Note: Your previous IPD/OS repository is deleted when you install Oracle Grid Infrastructure, and you run theroot.sh script on each node. |
By default, the CHM repository size for release 11.2.0.3 and later is a minimum of either 1GB or 3600 seconds (1 hour).
To enlarge the CHM repository, use the following command syntax, where RETENTION_TIME is the size of CHM repository in number of seconds:
oclumon manage -repos resize RETENTION_TIME
The value for RETENTION_TIME must be more than 3600 (one hour) and less than 259200 (three days). If you enlarge the CHM repository size, then you must ensure that there is local space available for the repository size you select on each node of the cluster. If there is not sufficient space available, then you can move the repository to shared storage.
For example, to set the repository size to four hours:
$ oclumon manage -repos resize 14400
Installation Guide
11g Release 2 (11.2) for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit)
E24614-03
May 2012
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide, 11g Release 2 (11.2) for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit)
E24614-03
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This appendix describes how to install and configure Oracle products using response files. It includes information about the following topics:
When you start the installer, you can use a response file to automate the installation and configuration of Oracle software, either fully or partially. The installer uses the values contained in the response file to provide answers to some or all installation prompts.
Typically, the installer runs in interactive mode, which means that it prompts you to provide information in graphical user interface (GUI) screens. When you use response files to provide this information, you run the installer from a command prompt using either of the following modes:
If you include responses for all of the prompts in the response file and specify the -silent option when starting the installer, then it runs in silent mode. During a silent mode installation, the installer does not display any screens. Instead, it displays progress information in the terminal that you used to start it.
If you include responses for some or all of the prompts in the response file and omit the -silent option, then the installer runs in response file mode. During a response file mode installation, the installer displays all the screens, screens for which you specify information in the response file, and also screens for which you did not specify the required information in the response file.
You define the settings for a silent or response file installation by entering values for the variables listed in the response file. For example, to specify the Oracle home name, supply the appropriate value for the ORACLE_HOME variable:
ORACLE_HOME="OraDBHome1"
Another way of specifying the response file variable settings is to pass them as command line arguments when you run the installer. For example:
-silent "ORACLE_HOME=OraDBHome1" ...
This method is particularly useful if you do not want to embed sensitive information, such as passwords, in the response file. For example:
-silent "s_dlgRBOPassword=binks342" ...
Ensure that you enclose the variable and its setting in quotes.
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See Also: Oracle Universal Installer and OPatch User's Guide for Windows and UNIX for more information about response files |
The following table provides use cases for running the installer in silent mode or response file mode.
The following are the general steps to install and configure Oracle products using the installer in silent or response file mode:
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Note: You must complete all required preinstallation tasks on a system before running the installer in silent or response file mode. |
Prepare a response file.
Run the installer in silent or response file mode.
If you completed a software-only installation, then run Net Configuration Assistant and Database Configuration Assistant in silent or response file mode.
These steps are described in the following sections.
This section describes the following methods to prepare a response file for use during silent mode or response file mode installations:
Oracle provides response file templates for each product and installation type, and for each configuration tool. These files are located at database/response directory on the installation media.
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Note: If you copied the software to a hard disk, then the response files are located in the directory/response. |
Table B-1 lists the response files provided with this software:
Table B-1 Response Files for Oracle Database
| Response File | Description |
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Silent installation of Oracle Database 11g | |
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Silent installation of Database Configuration Assistant | |
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Silent installation of Oracle Net Configuration Assistant |
Table B-2 Response files for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
| Response File | Description |
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Silent installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations |
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Caution: When you modify a response file template and save a file for use, the response file may contain plain text passwords. Ownership of the response file should be given to the Oracle software installation owner only, and permissions on the response file should be changed to 600. Oracle strongly recommends that database administrators or other administrators delete or secure response files when they are not in use. |
To copy and modify a response file:
Copy the response file from the response file directory to a directory on your system:
$ cp /directory_path/response/response_file.rsp local_directory
In this example, directory_path is the path to the database directory on the installation media. If you have copied the software to a hard drive, then you can edit the file in the response directory if you prefer.
Open the response file in a text editor:
$ vi /local_dir/response_file.rsp
Remember that you can specify sensitive information, such as passwords, at the command line rather than within the response file. "How Response Files Work" explains this method.
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See Also: Oracle Universal Installer and OPatch User's Guide for Windows and UNIX for detailed information on creating response files |
Follow the instructions in the file to edit it.
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Note: The installer or configuration assistant fails if you do not correctly configure the response file. |
Change the permissions on the file to 600:
$ chmod 600 /local_dir/response_file.rsp
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Note: A fully specified response file for an Oracle Database installation contains the passwords for database administrative accounts and for a user who is a member of the OSDBA group (required for automated backups). Ensure that only the Oracle software owner user can view or modify response files or consider deleting them after the installation succeeds. |
You can use the installer in interactive mode to record a response file, which you can edit and then use to complete silent mode or response file mode installations. This method is useful for custom or software-only installations.
Starting with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2), you can save all the installation steps into a response file during installation by clicking Save Response File on the Summary page. You can use the generated response file for a silent installation later.
When you record the response file, you can either complete the installation, or you can exit from the installer on the Summary page, before it starts to copy the software to the system.
If you use record mode during a response file mode installation, then the installer records the variable values that were specified in the original source response file into the new response file.
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Note: Oracle Universal Installer does not record passwords in the response file. |
To record a response file:
Complete preinstallation tasks as for a normal installation.
Ensure that the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software owner user (typically grid) has permissions to create or write to the Oracle home path that you will specify when you run the installer.
On each installation screen, specify the required information.
When the installer displays the Summary screen, perform the following steps:
Click Save Response File and specify a file name and location to save the values for the response file, and click Save.
Click Finish to create the response file and continue with the installation.
Click Save Response File and click Cancel if you only want to create the response file but not continue with the installation. The installation will stop, but the settings you have entered will be recorded in the response file.
Before you use the saved response file on another system, edit the file and make any required changes.
Use the instructions in the file as a guide when editing it.
Run Oracle Universal Installer at the command line, specifying the response file you created. The Oracle Universal Installer executable, runInstaller, provides several options. For help information on the full set of these options, run the runInstaller command with the -help option. For example:
$ directory_path/runInstaller -help
The help information appears in a window after some time.
To run the installer using a response file:
Complete the preinstallation tasks as for a normal installation
Log in as the software installation owner user.
If you are completing a response file mode installation, set the DISPLAY environment variable.
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Note: You do not have to set theDISPLAY environment variable if you are completing a silent mode installation. |
To start the installer in silent or response file mode, enter a command similar to the following:
$ /directory_path/runInstaller [-silent] [-noconfig] \ -responseFile responsefilename
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Note: Do not specify a relative path to the response file. If you specify a relative path, then the installer fails. |
In this example:
directory_path is the path of the DVD or the path of the directory on the hard drive where you have copied the installation binaries.
-noconfig suppresses running the configuration assistants during installation, and a software-only installation is performed instead.
responsefilename is the full path and file name of the installation response file that you configured.
When the installation completes, log in as the root user and run the root.sh script. For example
$ su root
password:
# /oracle_home_path/root.sh
You can run Net Configuration Assistant in silent mode to configure and start an Oracle Net listener on the system, configure naming methods, and configure Oracle Net service names. To run Net Configuration Assistant in silent mode, you must copy and edit a response file template. Oracle provides a response file template named netca.rsp in the response directory in the database/response directory on the DVD.
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Note: If you copied the software to a hard disk, then the response file template is located in thedatabase/response directory. |
To run Net Configuration Assistant using a response file:
Copy the netca.rsp response file template from the response file directory to a directory on your system:
$ cp /directory_path/response/netca.rsp local_directory
In this example, directory_path is the path of the database directory on the DVD. If you have copied the software to a hard drive, you can edit the file in the response directory if you prefer.
Open the response file in a text editor:
$ vi /local_dir/netca.rsp
Follow the instructions in the file to edit it.
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Note: Net Configuration Assistant fails if you do not correctly configure the response file. |
Log in as the Oracle software owner user, and set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable to specify the correct Oracle home directory.
Enter a command similar to the following to run Net Configuration Assistant in silent mode:
$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/netca /silent /responsefile /local_dir/netca.rsp
In this command:
The /silent option indicates runs Net Configuration Assistant in silent mode.
local_dir is the full path of the directory where you copied the netca.rsp response file template.
Use the following sections to create and run a response file configuration after installing Oracle software.
When you run a silent or response file installation, you provide information about your servers in a response file that you otherwise provide manually during a graphical user interface installation. However, the response file does not contain passwords for user accounts that configuration assistants require after software installation is complete. The configuration assistants are started with a script called configToolAllCommands. You can run this script in response file mode by creating and using a password response file. The script uses the passwords to run the configuration tools in succession to complete configuration.
If you keep the password file to use for clone installations, then Oracle strongly recommends that you store it in a secure location. In addition, if you have to stop an installation to fix an error, you can run the configuration assistants using configToolAllCommands and a password response file.
The configToolAllCommands password response file consists of the following syntax options:
internal_component_name is the name of the component that the configuration assistant configures
variable_name is the name of the configuration file variable
value is the desired value to use for configuration.
The command syntax is as follows:
internal_component_name|variable_name=value
For example:
oracle.assistants.asm|S_ASMPASSWORD=welcome
Oracle strongly recommends that you maintain security with a password response file:
Permissions on the response file should be set to 600.
The owner of the response file should be the installation owner user, with the group set to the central inventory (oraInventory) group.
To run configuration assistants with the configToolAllCommands script:
Create a response file using the syntax filename.properties. For example:
$ touch cfgrsp.properties
Open the file with a text editor, and cut and paste the password template, modifying as needed.
Example B-1 Password response file for Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation for a cluster
Oracle Grid Infrastructure requires passwords for Oracle Automatic Storage Management Configuration Assistant (ASMCA). Provide the following response file:
oracle.assistants.asm|S_ASMPASSWORD=password oracle.assistants.asm|S_ASMMONITORPASSWORD=password
Example B-2 Password response file for Oracle Real Application Clusters
Oracle Database configuration requires configuring a password for the SYS, SYSTEM, SYSMAN, and DBSNMP passwords for use with Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA). In addition, if you use Oracle ASM storage, then configure the ASMSNMP password. Also, if you selected to configure Oracle Enterprise Manager, then you must provide the password for the Oracle software installation owner for the S_HOSTUSERPASSWORD response.
oracle.assistants.server|S_SYSPASSWORD=password oracle.assistants.server|S_SYSTEMPASSWORD=password oracle.assistants.server|S_SYSMANPASSWORD=password oracle.assistants.server|S_DBSNMPPASSWORD=password oracle.assistants.server|S_HOSTUSERPASSWORD=password oracle.assistants.server|S_ASMSNMPPASSWORD=password
If you do not want to enable Oracle Enterprise Manager or Oracle ASM, then leave those password fields blank.
Change permissions to secure the file. For example:
$ ls -al cfgrsp.properties -rw------- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Apr 30 17:30 cfgrsp
Change directory to $ORACLE_HOME/cfgtoollogs, and run the configuration script using the following syntax:
configToolAllCommands RESPONSE_FILE=/path/name.properties
for example:
$ ./configToolAllCommands RESPONSE_FILE=/home/oracle/cfgrsp.properties
This chapter describes the difference between a Typical and Advanced installation for Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster, and describes the steps required to complete a Typical installation.
This chapter contains the following sections:
There are two installation options for Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations:
Typical Installation: The Typical installation option is a simplified installation with a minimal number of manual configuration choices. Oracle recommends that you select this installation type for most cluster implementations.
Advanced Installation: The Advanced Installation option is an advanced procedure that requires a higher degree of system knowledge. It enables you to select particular configuration choices, including additional storage and network choices, use of operating system group authentication for role-based administrative privileges, or more granularity in specifying Oracle Automatic Storage Management roles.
With Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2), during installation Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) generates Fixup scripts (runfixup.sh) that you can run to complete required preinstallation steps.
Fixup scripts are generated during installation. You are prompted to run scripts as root in a separate terminal session. When you run scripts, they complete the following configuration tasks:
If necessary sets kernel parameters required for installation and runtime to at least the minimum value.
Reconfigures primary and secondary group memberships for the installation owner, if necessary, for the Oracle Inventory directory and the operating system privileges groups.
Sets shell limits if necessary to required values.
Complete the following manual configuration tasks
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See Also: Chapter 2, "Advanced Installation Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Preinstallation Tasks" and Chapter 3, "Configuring Storage for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)" if you need any information about how to complete these tasks |
Enter the following commands to check available memory:
# /usr/sbin/lsattr -E -l sys0 -a realmem # /usr/sbin/lsps -a
The minimum required RAM is at least 2.5 GB of RAM for Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster installations, including installations where you plan to install Oracle RAC.
The minimum required swap space is 1.5 GB. For systems with 2.5 GB to 16 GB RAM, Oracle recommends that you use swap space equal to RAM. For systems with more than 16 GB RAM, use 16 GB of RAM for swap space. If the swap space and the Grid home are on the same filesystem, then add together their respective disk space requirements for the total minimum space required.
Verify the space available for Oracle Clusterware files. For example:
GPFS:
/usr/bin/df -k
To check raw device volumes in preparation for installing Oracle ASM disk groups, use the following checks:
Raw Logical Volumes in Concurrent VG (HACMP): In the following example, the variable lv_name is the name of the raw logical volume whose space you want to verify:
lslv lv_name
Raw hard disks: In the following example, the variable rhdisk# is the raw hard disk number that you want to verify, and the variable size_mb is the size in megabytes of the partition that you want to verify:
lsattr -El rhdisk# -a size_mb
If you use normal redundancy for OCR and voting disk files, which is 3 Oracle Cluster Registries (OCR) and 3 voting disks, ideally, in different file systems on independent disks, then you should have at least 1 GB of disk space available on separate physical disks reserved for Oracle Clusterware files. Each file system for the Oracle Clusterware files should be at least 280 MB in size.
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Note: You cannot install OCR or voting disk files on raw partitions. You can install only on Oracle ASM, or on supported network-attached storage or cluster file systems. The only use for raw devices is as ASM disks. |
To ensure high availability of Oracle Clusterware files on Oracle ASM, you need to have at least 2 GB of disk space for Oracle Clusterware files in three separate failure groups, with at least three physical disks. Each disk must have at least 1 GB of capacity to ensure that there is sufficient space to create Oracle Clusterware files.
Ensure you have at least 13 GB of space for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster home (Grid home) This includes Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) files and log files, Oracle ACFS log files, and includes the Cluster Health Monitor repository.
/usr/bin/df -k /tmp
Ensure that you have at least 1 GB of space in /tmp. If this space is not available, then increase the size, or delete unnecessary files in /tmp.
Ensure that you have the following available:
During Typical installation, you are prompted to confirm the default Single Client Access Name (SCAN), which is used to connect to databases within the cluster irrespective of which nodes they are running on. By default, the name used as the SCAN is also the name of the cluster. The default value for the SCAN is based on the local node name. If you change the SCAN from the default, then the name that you use must be globally unique throughout your enterprise.
In a Typical installation, the SCAN is also the name of the cluster. The SCAN and cluster name must be at least one character long and no more than 15 characters in length, must be alphanumeric, and may contain hyphens (-).
For example:
NE-Sa89
If you require a SCAN that is longer than15 characters, then be aware that the cluster name defaults to the first 15 characters of the SCAN.
Before starting the installation, you must have at least two interfaces configured on each node: One for the private IP address and one for the public IP address.
If you do not enable GNS, then the public and virtual IP addresses for each node must be static IP addresses, configured before installation for each node, but not currently in use. Public and virtual IP addresses must be on the same subnet.
Oracle Clusterware manages private IP addresses in the private subnet on interfaces you identify as private during the installation interview.
The cluster must have the following addresses configured:
The cluster must have the following addresses configured:
A public IP address for each node, with the following characteristics:
Static IP address
Configured before installation for each node, and resolvable to that node before installation
On the same subnet as all other public IP addresses, VIP addresses, and SCAN addresses
A virtual IP address for each node, with the following characteristics:
Static IP address
Configured before installation for each node, but not currently in use
On the same subnet as all other public IP addresses, VIP addresses, and SCAN addresses
A Single Client Access Name (SCAN) for the cluster, with the following characteristics:
Three Static IP addresses configured on the domain name server (DNS) before installation so that the three IP addresses are associated with the name provided as the SCAN, and all three addresses are returned in random order by the DNS to the requestor
Configured before installation in the DNS to resolve to addresses that are not currently in use
Given a name that does not begin with a numeral
On the same subnet as all other public IP addresses, VIP addresses, and SCAN addresses
Conforms with the RFC 952 standard, which allows alphanumeric characters and hyphens ("-"), but does not allow underscores ("_").
A private IP address for each node, with the following characteristics:
Static IP address
Configured before installation, but on a separate, private network, with its own subnet, that is not resolvable except by other cluster member nodes
After installation, when a client sends a request to the cluster, the Oracle Clusterware SCAN listeners redirect client requests to servers in the cluster.
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Note: Oracle strongly recommends that you do not configure SCAN VIP addresses in the hosts file. Use DNS resolution for SCAN VIPs. If you use the hosts file to resolve SCANs, then you will only be able to resolve to one IP address and you will have only one SCAN address. |
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See Also: Appendix C, "Understanding Network Addresses" for more information about network addresses |
In previous releases, to make use of redundant networks for the interconnect, bonding, trunking, teaming, or similar technology was required. Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC can now make use of redundant network interconnects, without the use of other network technology, to enhance optimal communication in the cluster. This functionality is available starting with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2).
Redundant Interconnect Usage enables load-balancing and high availability across multiple (up to 4) private networks (also known as interconnects).
During installation, you are asked to identify the planned use for each network interface that OUI detects on your cluster node. You must identify each interface as a public or private interface, or as "do not use." For interfaces that you plan to have used for other purposes—for example, an interface dedicated to a network file system—you must identify those instances as "do not use" interfaces, so that Oracle Clusterware ignores them.
Redundant Interconnect Usage cannot protect interfaces used for public communication. If you require high availability or load balancing for public interfaces, then use a third party solution. Typically, bonding, trunking or similar technologies can be used for this purpose.
You can enable Redundant Interconnect Usage for the private network by selecting multiple interfaces to use as private interfaces. Redundant Interconnect Usage creates a redundant interconnect when you identify more than one interface as private. This functionality is available starting with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2).
Refer to the tables listed in Section 2.8, "Checking the Software Requirements" for the list of required packages for your operating system.
Enter the following commands to create default groups and users:
One system privileges group for all operating system-authenticated administration privileges, including Oracle RAC (if installed):
# mkgroup -'A' id='1000' adms='root' oinstall # mkgroup -'A' id='1031' adms='root' dba # mkuser id='1100' pgrp='oinstall' groups='dba' home='/home/grid' grid # mkuser id='1101' pgrp='oinstall' groups='dba' home='/home/oracle' oracle # mkdir -p /u01/app/11.2.0/grid # chown -R grid:oinstall /u01 # mkdir /u01/app/oracle # chown oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oracle # chmod -R 775 /u01/
This set of commands creates a single installation owner, with required system privileges groups to grant the OraInventory system privileges (oinstall), and to grant the OSASM/SYSASM and OSDBA/SYSDBA system privileges. It also creates the Oracle base for both Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC, /u01/app/oracle. It creates the Grid home (the location where Oracle Grid Infrastructure binaries are stored), /u01/app/11.2.0/grid.
Ensure that the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner account has the capabilities CAP_NUMA_ATTACH, CAP_BYPASS_RAC_VMM, and CAP_PROPAGATE.
To check existing capabilities, enter the following command as root; in this example, the Grid installation user account is grid:
# /usr/bin/lsuser -a capabilities grid
To add capabilities, enter a command similar to the following:
# /usr/bin/chuser capabilities=CAP_NUMA_ATTACH,CAP_BYPASS_RAC_VMM,CAP_PROPAGATE grid
Set the password on the grid installation owner account:
passwd grid
Repeat this process for each cluster member node.
Set shell limits for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner and for root to unlimited. Verify that unlimited is set for both accounts either by using the smit utility or by editing the /etc/security/limits file. The root user requires these settings because the crs daemon (crsd) runs as root. Add the following lines to the limits file:
default:
fsize = -1
core = 2097151
cpu = -1
data = -1
rss = -1
stack = -1
nofiles = -1
You must have space available either on a supported file system, or on Oracle Automatic Storage Management for Oracle Clusterware files (voting disks and Oracle Cluster Registries), and for Oracle Database files, if you install standalone or Oracle Real Application Clusters Databases. Creating Oracle Clusterware files on block or raw devices is no longer supported for new installations.
Review the relevant sections in Chapter 3 for the installation option you want to configure.
Start OUI from the root level of the installation media. For example:
./runInstaller
Select Install and Configure Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster, then select Typical Installation. In the installation screens that follow, enter the configuration information as prompted.
If you receive an installation verification error that cannot be fixed using a fixup script, then review Chapter 2, "Advanced Installation Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Preinstallation Tasks" to find the section for configuring cluster nodes. After completing the fix, continue with the installation until it is complete.
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit) explains how to configure a server in preparation for installing and configuring an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management). It also explains how to configure a server and storage in preparation for an Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) installation.
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This appendix explains the reasons for preinstallation tasks that you are asked to perform, and other installation concepts.
This appendix contains the following sections:
This section reviews concepts about Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster preinstallation tasks. It contains the following sections:
This section contains the following topics:
You must have a group whose members are given access to write to the Oracle Inventory (oraInventory) directory, which is the central inventory record of all Oracle software installations on a server. Members of this group have write privileges to the Oracle central inventory (oraInventory) directory, and are also granted permissions for various Oracle Clusterware resources, OCR keys, directories in the Oracle Clusterware home to which DBAs need write access, and other necessary privileges. By default, this group is called oinstall. The Oracle Inventory group must be the primary group for Oracle software installation owners.
The oraInventory directory contains the following:
A registry of the Oracle home directories (Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database) on the system
Installation logs and trace files from installations of Oracle software. These files are also copied to the respective Oracle homes for future reference.
Other metadata inventory information regarding Oracle installations are stored in the individual Oracle home inventory directories, and are separate from the central inventory.
You can configure one group to be the access control group for the Oracle Inventory, for database administrators (OSDBA), and for all other access control groups used by Oracle software for operating system authentication. However, this group then must be the primary group for all users granted administrative privileges.
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Note: If Oracle software is already installed on the system, then the existing Oracle Inventory group must be the primary group of the operating system user (oracle or grid) that you use to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure. Refer to "Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists" to identify an existing Oracle Inventory group. |
The Oracle Inventory directory (oraInventory) is the central inventory location for all Oracle software installed on a server.
The first time you install Oracle software on a system, you are prompted to provide an oraInventory directory path.
When you provide an Oracle base path when prompted during installation, or you have set the environment variable ORACLE_BASE for the user performing the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, OUI creates the Oracle Inventory directory in the path ORACLE_BASE/../oraInventory. For example, if ORACLE_BASE is set to /opt/oracle/11, then the Oracle Inventory directory is created in the path /opt/oracle/oraInventory, so that the central inventory for all installations is outside of the Oracle base for this particular Oracle installation user.
If you neither enter a path nor set ORACLE_BASE, then the Oracle Inventory directory is placed in the home directory of the user that is performing the installation. For example:
/home/oracle/oraInventory
As this placement can cause permission errors during subsequent installations with multiple Oracle software owners, Oracle recommends that you do not accept this option, and instead use an OFA-compliant path.
For new installations, Oracle recommends that you either create an Oracle path in compliance with OFA structure, such as /u01/app/oraInventory, that is owned by an Oracle software owner, or you set the Oracle base environment variable to an OFA-compliant value.
If you set an Oracle base variable to a path such as /u01/app/grid or /u01/app/oracle, then the Oracle Inventory is defaulted to the path u01/app/oraInventory using correct permissions to allow all Oracle installation owners to write to this central inventory directory.
By default, the Oracle Inventory directory is not installed under the Oracle base directory for the installation owner. This is because all Oracle software installations share a common Oracle Inventory, so there is only one Oracle Inventory for all users, whereas there is a separate Oracle base for each user.
This section contains information about preparing an Oracle base directory.
During installation, you are prompted to specify an Oracle base location, which is owned by the user performing the installation. You can choose a location with an existing Oracle home, or choose another directory location that does not have the structure for an Oracle base directory.
Using the Oracle base directory path helps to facilitate the organization of Oracle installations, and helps to ensure that installations of multiple databases maintain an Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) configuration.
Even if you do not use the same software owner to install Grid Infrastructure (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM) and Oracle Database, be aware that running the root.sh script during the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation changes ownership of the home directory where clusterware binaries are placed to root, and all ancestor directories to the root level (/) are also changed to root. For this reason, the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster home cannot be in the same location as other Oracle software.
However, Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone database--Oracle Restart--can be in the same location as other Oracle software.
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See Also: Oracle Database Installation Guide for your platform for more information about Oracle Restart |
During installation, you are asked to identify the planned use for each network interface that OUI detects on your cluster node. Identify each interface as a public or private interface, or as an interface that you do not want Oracle Clusterware to use. Public and virtual IP addresses are configured on public interfaces. Private addresses are configured on private interfaces.
Refer to the following sections for detailed information about each address type:
The public IP address is assigned dynamically using DHCP, or defined statically in a DNS or in a hosts file. It uses the public interface (the interface with access available to clients).
Oracle Clusterware uses interfaces marked as private for internode communication. Each cluster node needs to have an interface that you identify during installation as a private interface. Private interfaces need to have addresses configured for the interface itself, but no additional configuration is required. Oracle Clusterware uses interfaces you identify as private for the cluster interconnect. If you identify multiple interfaces during information for the private network, then Oracle Clusterware configures them with Redundant Interconnect Usage. Any interface that you identify as private must be on a subnet that connects to every node of the cluster. Oracle Clusterware uses all the interfaces you identify for use as private interfaces.
For the private interconnects, because of Cache Fusion and other traffic between nodes, Oracle strongly recommends using a physically separate, private network. If you configure addresses using a DNS, then you should ensure that the private IP addresses are reachable only by the cluster nodes.
After installation, if you modify interconnects on Oracle RAC with the CLUSTER_INTERCONNECTS initialization parameter, then you must change it to a private IP address, on a subnet that is not used with a public IP address. Oracle does not support changing the interconnect to an interface using a subnet that you have designated as a public subnet.
You should not use a firewall on the network with the private network IP addresses, as this can block interconnect traffic.
The virtual IP (VIP) address is registered in the GNS, or the DNS. Select an address for your VIP that meets the following requirements:
The IP address and host name are currently unused (it can be registered in a DNS, but should not be accessible by a ping command)
The VIP is on the same subnet as your public interface
The GNS virtual IP address is a static IP address configured in the DNS. The DNS delegates queries to the GNS virtual IP address, and the GNS daemon responds to incoming name resolution requests at that address.
Within the subdomain, the GNS uses multicast Domain Name Service (mDNS), included with Oracle Clusterware, to enable the cluster to map host names and IP addresses dynamically as nodes are added and removed from the cluster, without requiring additional host configuration in the DNS.
To enable GNS, you must have your network administrator provide a set of IP addresses for a subdomain assigned to the cluster (for example, grid.example.com), and delegate DNS requests for that subdomain to the GNS virtual IP address for the cluster, which GNS will serve. The set of IP addresses is provided to the cluster through DHCP, which must be available on the public network for the cluster.
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See Also: Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide for more information about Grid Naming Service |
Oracle Database 11g release 2 clients connect to the database using SCANs. The SCAN and its associated IP addresses provide a stable name for clients to use for connections, independent of the nodes that make up the cluster. SCAN addresses, virtual IP addresses, and public IP addresses must all be on the same subnet.
The SCAN is a virtual IP name, similar to the names used for virtual IP addresses, such as node1-vip. However, unlike a virtual IP, the SCAN is associated with the entire cluster, rather than an individual node, and associated with multiple IP addresses, not just one address.
The SCAN works by being able to resolve to multiple IP addresses in the cluster handling public client connections. When a client submits a request, the SCAN listener listening on a SCAN IP address and the SCAN port is made available to a client. Because all services on the cluster are registered with the SCAN listener, the SCAN listener replies with the address of the local listener on the least-loaded node where the service is currently being offered. Finally, the client establishes connection to the service through the listener on the node where service is offered. All of these actions take place transparently to the client without any explicit configuration required in the client.
During installation listeners are created. They listen on the SCAN IP addresses provided on nodes for the SCAN IP addresses. Oracle Net Services routes application requests to the least loaded instance providing the service. Because the SCAN addresses resolve to the cluster, rather than to a node address in the cluster, nodes can be added to or removed from the cluster without affecting the SCAN address configuration.
The SCAN should be configured so that it is resolvable either by using Grid Naming Service (GNS) within the cluster, or by using Domain Name Service (DNS) resolution. For high availability and scalability, Oracle recommends that you configure the SCAN name so that it resolves to three IP addresses. At a minimum, the SCAN must resolve to at least one address.
If you specify a GNS domain, then the SCAN name defaults to clustername-scan.GNS_domain. Otherwise, it defaults to clustername-scan.current_domain. For example, if you start Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation from the server node1, the cluster name is mycluster, and the GNS domain is grid.example.com, then the SCAN Name is mycluster-scan.grid.example.com.
Clients configured to use IP addresses for Oracle Database releases prior to Oracle Database 11g release 2 can continue to use their existing connection addresses; using SCANs is not required. When you upgrade to Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2), the SCAN becomes available, and you should use the SCAN for connections to Oracle Database 11g release 2 or later databases. When an earlier version of Oracle Database is upgraded, it registers with the SCAN listeners, and clients can start using the SCAN to connect to that database. The database registers with the SCAN listener through the remote listener parameter in the init.ora file. The REMOTE_LISTENER parameter must be set to SCAN:PORT. Do not set it to a TNSNAMES alias with a single address with the SCAN as HOST=SCAN.
The SCAN is optional for most deployments. However, clients using Oracle Database 11g release 2 and later policy-managed databases using server pools should access the database using the SCAN. This is because policy-managed databases can run on different servers at different times, so connecting to a particular node virtual IP address for a policy-managed database is not possible.
Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2) is automatically configured with Cluster Time Synchronization Service (CTSS). This service provides automatic synchronization of all cluster nodes using the optimal synchronization strategy for the type of cluster you deploy. If you have an existing cluster synchronization service, such as NTP, then it will start in an observer mode. Otherwise, it will start in an active mode to ensure that time is synchronized between cluster nodes. CTSS will not cause compatibility issues.
The CTSS module is installed as a part of Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation. CTSS daemons are started up by the OHAS daemon (ohasd), and do not require a command-line interface.
Understanding Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System
About Converting Standalone Oracle ASM Installations to Clustered Installations
Oracle Automatic Storage Management has been extended to include a general purpose file system, called Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS). Oracle ACFS is a new multi-platform, scalable file system, and storage management technology that extends Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) functionality to support customer files maintained outside of the Oracle Database. Files supported by Oracle ACFS include application binaries and application reports. Other supported files are video, audio, text, images, engineering drawings, and other general-purpose application file data.
If you have an Oracle ASM installation from a prior release installed on your server, or in an existing Oracle Clusterware installation, then you can use Oracle Automatic Storage Management Configuration Assistant (ASMCA, located in the path Grid_home/bin) to upgrade the existing Oracle ASM instance to Oracle ASM 11g release 2 (11.2), and subsequently configure failure groups, Oracle ASM volumes, and Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS).
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Note: You must first shut down all database instances and applications on the node with the existing Oracle ASM instance before upgrading it. |
During installation, if you chose to use Oracle ASM and ASMCA detects that there is a prior Oracle ASM version installed in another home, then after installing the Oracle ASM 11g release 2 (11.2) binaries, you can start ASMCA to upgrade the existing Oracle ASM instance. You can then choose to configure an Oracle ACFS deployment by creating Oracle ASM volumes and using the upgraded Oracle ASM to create the Oracle ACFS.
On an existing Oracle Clusterware or Oracle RAC installation, if the prior version of Oracle ASM instances on all nodes is Oracle ASM 11g release 1, then you are provided with the option to perform a rolling upgrade of Oracle ASM instances. If the prior version of Oracle ASM instances on an Oracle RAC installation are from an Oracle ASM release prior to Oracle ASM 11g release 1, then rolling upgrades cannot be performed. Oracle ASM is then upgraded on all nodes to 11g release 2 (11.2).
If you have an existing standalone Oracle ASM installations on one or more nodes that are member nodes of the cluster, then OUI proceeds to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster.
If you place Oracle Clusterware files (OCR and voting disks) on Oracle ASM, then ASMCA is started at the end of the clusterware installation, and provides prompts for you to migrate and upgrade the Oracle ASM instance on the local node, so that you have an Oracle ASM 11g release 2 (11.2) installation.
On remote nodes, ASMCA identifies any standalone Oracle ASM instances that are running, and prompts you to shut down those Oracle ASM instances, and any database instances that use them. ASMCA then extends clustered Oracle ASM instances to all nodes in the cluster. However, disk group names on the cluster-enabled Oracle ASM instances must be different from existing standalone disk group names.
The following section provides a short overview of server pools. It contains the following topics:
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See Also: Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide for information about how to configure and administer server pools |
With Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2) and later, resources managed by Oracle Clusterware are contained in logical groups of servers called server pools. Resources are hosted on a shared infrastructure and are contained within server pools. The resources are restricted with respect to their hardware resource (such as CPU and memory) consumption by policies, behaving as if they were deployed in a single-system environment.
You can choose to manage resources dynamically using server pools to provide policy-based management of resources in the cluster, or you can choose to manage resources using the traditional method of physically assigning resources to run on particular nodes.
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Caution: By default, any named user may create a server pool. To restrict the operating system users that have this privilege, Oracle strongly recommends that you add specific users to the CRS Administrators list. |
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See Also: Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide for more information about adding users to the CRS Administrator's list. |
The Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner has permissions to create and configure server pools, using SRVCTL, Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control, or Oracle Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA).
Policy-based management:
Enables dynamic capacity assignment when needed to provide server capacity in accordance with the priorities you set with policies
Enables allocation of resources by importance, so that applications obtain the required minimum resources, whenever possible, and so that lower priority applications do not take resources from more important applications
Ensures isolation where necessary, so that you can provide dedicated servers in a cluster for applications and databases
Applications and databases running in server pools do not share resources. Because of this, server pools isolate resources where necessary, but enable dynamic capacity assignments as required. Together with role-separated management, this capability addresses the needs of organizations that have a standardized cluster environments, but allow multiple administrator groups to share the common cluster infrastructure.
Server pools divide the cluster into groups of servers hosting the same or similar resources. They distribute a uniform workload (a set of Oracle Clusterware resources) over several servers in the cluster. For example, you can restrict Oracle databases to run only in a particular server pool. When you enable role-separated management, you can explicitly grant permission to operating system users to change attributes of certain server pools.
Top-level server pools:
Logically divide the cluster
Are always exclusive, meaning that one server can only reside in one particular server pool at a certain point in time
Server pools each have three attributes that they are assigned when they are created:
MIN_SIZE: The minimum number of servers the server pool should contain. If the number of servers in a server pool is below the value of this attribute, then Oracle Clusterware automatically moves servers from elsewhere into the server pool until the number of servers reaches the attribute value, or until there are no free servers available from less important pools.
MAX_SIZE: The maximum number of servers the server pool may contain.
IMPORTANCE: A number from 0 to 1000 (0 being least important) that ranks a server pool amogng all other server pools in a cluster.
When Oracle Clusterware is installed, two server pools are created automatically: Generic and Free. All servers in a new installation are assigned to the Free server pool, initially. Servers move from Free to newly defined server pools automatically. When you upgrade Oracle Clusterware, all nodes are assigned to the Generic server pool, to ensure compatibility with database releases before Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2).
The Free server pool contains servers that are not assigned to any other server pools. The attributes of the Free server pool are restricted, as follows:
SERVER_NAMES, MIN_SIZE, and MAX_SIZE cannot be edited by the user
IMPORTANCE and ACL can be edited by the user
The Generic server pool stores pre-11g release 2 (11.2) databases and administrator-managed databases that have fixed configurations. Additionally, the Generic server pool contains servers that match either of the following:
Servers that you specified in the HOSTING_MEMBERS attribute of all resources of the application resource type
Servers with names you specified in the SERVER_NAMES attribute of the server pools that list the Generic server pool as a parent server pool
The Generic server pool's attributes are restricted, as follows:
No one can modify configuration attributes of the Generic server pool (all attributes are read-only)
When you specify a server name in the HOSTING_MEMBERS attribute, Oracle Clusterware only allows it if the server is:
Online and exists in the Generic server pool
Online and exists in the Free server pool, in which case Oracle Clusterware moves the server into the Generic server pool
Online and exists in any other server pool and the client is either a CRS Administrator (the user role that controls resource administration for server pools) or is allowed to use the server pool's servers, in which case, the server is moved into the Generic server pool
Offline and the client is a CRS Administrator
When you register a child server pool with the Generic server pool, Oracle Clusterware only allows it if the server names pass the same requirements as previously specified for the resources.
Servers are initially considered for assignment into the Generic server pool at cluster startup time or when a server is added to the cluster, and only after that to other server pools.
With an out-of-place upgrade, the installer installs the newer version in a separate Oracle Clusterware home. Both versions of Oracle Clusterware are on each cluster member node, but only one version is active.
Rolling upgrade avoids downtime and ensure continuous availability while the software is upgraded to a new version.
If you have separate Oracle Clusterware homes on each node, then you can perform an out-of-place upgrade on all nodes, or perform an out-of-place rolling upgrade, so that some nodes are running Oracle Clusterware from the earlier version Oracle Clusterware home, and other nodes are running Oracle Clusterware from the new Oracle Clusterware home.
An in-place upgrade of Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 is not supported.
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See Also: Appendix E, "How to Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2" for instructions on completing rolling upgrades |
This appendix provides instructions for how to complete configuration tasks manually that Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) and the installer (OUI) normally complete during installation. Use this appendix as a guide if you cannot use the fixup script.
Passwordless SSH configuration is a mandatory installation requirement. SSH is used during installation to configure cluster member nodes, and SSH is used after installation by configuration assistants, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Opatch, and other features.
Automatic Passwordless SSH configuration using OUI creates RSA encryption keys on all nodes of the cluster. If you have system restrictions that require you to set up SSH manually, such as using DSA keys, then use this procedure as a guide to set up passwordless SSH.
In the examples that follow, the Oracle software owner listed is the grid user.
This section contains the following:
To determine if SSH is running, enter the following command:
$ pgrep sshd
If SSH is running, then the response to this command is one or more process ID numbers. In the home directory of the installation software owner (grid, oracle), use the command ls -al to ensure that the .ssh directory is owned and writable only by the user.
You need either an RSA or a DSA key for the SSH protocol. RSA is used with the SSH 1.5 protocol, while DSA is the default for the SSH 2.0 protocol. With OpenSSH, you can use either RSA or DSA. The instructions that follow are for SSH1. If you have an SSH2 installation, and you cannot use SSH1, then refer to your SSH distribution documentation to configure SSH1 compatibility or to configure SSH2 with DSA.
To configure SSH, you must first create RSA or DSA keys on each cluster node, and then copy all the keys generated on all cluster node members into an authorized keys file that is identical on each node. Note that the SSH files must be readable only by root and by the software installation user (oracle, grid), as SSH ignores a private key file if it is accessible by others. In the examples that follow, the DSA key is used.
You must configure SSH separately for each Oracle software installation owner that you intend to use for installation.
To configure SSH, complete the following:
Complete the following steps on each node:
Log in as the software owner (in this example, the grid user).
To ensure that you are logged in as grid, and to verify that the user ID matches the expected user ID you have assigned to the grid user, enter the commands id and id grid. Ensure that Oracle user group and user and the user terminal window process you are using have group and user IDs are identical. For example:
$ id uid=502(grid) gid=501(oinstall) groups=501(oinstall),502(grid,asmadmin,asmdba) $ id grid uid=502(grid) gid=501(oinstall) groups=501(oinstall),502(grid,asmadmin,asmdba)
If necessary, create the .ssh directory in the grid user's home directory, and set permissions on it to ensure that only the oracle user has read and write permissions:
$ mkdir ~/.ssh $ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
Enter the following command:
$ /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -t dsa
At the prompts, accept the default location for the key file (press Enter).
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Note: SSH with passphrase is not supported for Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 and later releases. |
This command writes the DSA public key to the ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file and the private key to the ~/.ssh/id_dsa file.
Never distribute the private key to anyone not authorized to perform Oracle software installations.
Repeat steps 1 through 4 on each node that you intend to make a member of the cluster, using the DSA key.
Complete the following steps:
On the local node, change directories to the .ssh directory in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure owner's home directory (typically, either grid or oracle).
Then, add the DSA key to the authorized_keys file using the following commands:
$ cat id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys $ ls
In the .ssh directory, you should see the id_dsa.pub keys that you have created, and the file authorized_keys.
On the local node, use SCP (Secure Copy) or SFTP (Secure FTP) to copy the authorized_keys file to the oracle user .ssh directory on a remote node. The following example is with SCP, on a node called node2, with the Oracle Grid Infrastructure owner grid, where the grid user path is /home/grid:
[grid@node1 .ssh]$ scp authorized_keys node2:/home/grid/.ssh/
You are prompted to accept a DSA key. Enter Yes, and you see that the node you are copying to is added to the known_hosts file.
When prompted, provide the password for the grid user, which should be the same on all nodes in the cluster. The authorized_keys file is copied to the remote node.
Your output should be similar to the following, where xxx represents parts of a valid IP address:
[grid@node1 .ssh]$ scp authorized_keys node2:/home/grid/.ssh/ The authenticity of host 'node2 (xxx.xxx.173.152) can't be established. DSA key fingerprint is 7e:60:60:ae:40:40:d1:a6:f7:4e:zz:me:a7:48:ae:f6:7e. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added 'node1,xxx.xxx.173.152' (dsa) to the list of known hosts grid@node2's password: authorized_keys 100% 828 7.5MB/s 00:00
Using SSH, log in to the node where you copied the authorized_keys file. Then change to the .ssh directory, and using the cat command, add the DSA keys for the second node to the authorized_keys file, clicking Enter when you are prompted for a password, so that passwordless SSH is set up:
[grid@node1 .ssh]$ ssh node2 [grid@node2 grid]$ cd .ssh [grid@node2 ssh]$ cat id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys
Repeat steps 2 and 3 from each node to each other member node in the cluster.
When you have added keys from each cluster node member to the authorized_keys file on the last node you want to have as a cluster node member, then use scp to copy the authorized_keys file with the keys from all nodes back to each cluster node member, overwriting the existing version on the other nodes.
To confirm that you have all nodes in the authorized_keys file, enter the command more authorized_keys, and determine if there is a DSA key for each member node. The file lists the type of key (ssh-dsa), followed by the key, and then followed by the user and server. For example:
ssh-dsa AAAABBBB . . . = grid@node1
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Note: Thegrid user's /.ssh/authorized_keys file on every node must contain the contents from all of the /.ssh/id_dsa.pub files that you generated on all cluster nodes. |
After you have copied the authorized_keys file that contains all keys to each node in the cluster, complete the following procedure, in the order listed. In this example, the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software owner is named grid:
On the system where you want to run OUI, log in as the grid user.
Use the following command syntax, where hostname1, hostname2, and so on, are the public host names (alias and fully qualified domain name) of nodes in the cluster to run SSH from the local node to each node, including from the local node to itself, and from each node to each other node:
[grid@nodename]$ ssh hostname1 date [grid@nodename]$ ssh hostname2 date . . .
For example:
[grid@node1 grid]$ ssh node1 date The authenticity of host 'node1 (xxx.xxx.100.101)' can't be established. DSA key fingerprint is 7z:60:60:zz:48:48:z1:a0:f7:4e. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added 'node1,xxx.xxx.100.101' (DSA) to the list of known hosts. Mon Dec 4 11:08:13 PST 2006 [grid@node1 grid]$ ssh node1.example.com date The authenticity of host 'node1.example.com (xxx.xxx.100.101)' can't be established. DSA key fingerprint is 7z:60:60:zz:48:48:z1:a0:f7:4e. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added 'node1.example.com,xxx.xxx.100.101' (DSA) to the list of known hosts. Mon Dec 4 11:08:13 PST 2006 [grid@node1 grid]$ ssh node2 date Mon Dec 4 11:08:35 PST 2006 . . .
At the end of this process, the public host name for each member node should be registered in the known_hosts file for all other cluster nodes.
If you are using a remote client to connect to the local node, and you see a message similar to "Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding," then this means that your authorized keys file is configured correctly, but your SSH configuration has X11 forwarding enabled. To correct this issue, proceed to Section 2.13.4, "Setting Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration."
Repeat step 2 on each cluster node member.
If you have configured SSH correctly, then you can now use the ssh or scp commands without being prompted for a password. For example:
[grid@node1 ~]$ ssh node2 date Mon Feb 26 23:34:42 UTC 2009 [grid@node1 ~]$ ssh node1 date Mon Feb 26 23:34:48 UTC 2009
If any node prompts for a password, then verify that the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on that node contains the correct public keys, and that you have created an Oracle software owner with identical group membership and IDs.
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This chapter contains the following topics: Creating Groups, Users and Paths for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Configuring Grid Infrastructure Software Owner User Environments Adding the Grid Infrastructure Installation Owner to Hagsuser Group Requirements for Creating an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Directory Caution: If you have an existing Oracle installation, then record the version numbers, patches, and other configuration information, and review upgrade procedures for your existing installation. Review Oracle upgrade documentation before proceeding with installation, to decide how you want to proceed. You can upgrade Oracle ASM 11g release 1 (11.1) without shutting down an Oracle RAC database by performing a rolling upgrade either of individual nodes, or of a set of nodes in the cluster. However, if you have a standalone database on a cluster that uses Oracle ASM, then you must shut down the standalone database before upgrading. If you are upgrading from Oracle ASM 10g, then you must shut down the entire Oracle ASM cluster to perform the upgrade. If you have an existing Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) installation, then review Oracle upgrade documentation. The location of the Oracle ASM home changes in this release, and you may want to consider other configuration changes to simplify or customize storage administration. If you have an existing Oracle ASM home from a previous release, then it should be owned by the same user that you plan to use to upgrade Oracle Clusterware. During rolling upgrades of the operating system, Oracle supports using different operating system binaries when both versions of the operating system are certified with the Oracle Database release you are using. Note: Your cluster can have nodes with CPUs of different speeds or sizes, but Oracle recommends that you use nodes with the same hardware configuration. To find the most recent software updates, and to find best practices recommendations about preupgrade, postupgrade, compatibility, and interoperability, refer to "Oracle Upgrade Companion." "Oracle Upgrade Companion" is available through Note 785351.1 on My Oracle Support: With Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2, Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) detects when the minimum requirements for an installation are not met, and creates shell scripts, called fixup scripts, to finish incomplete system configuration steps. If OUI detects an incomplete task, then it generates fixup scripts ( You also can have CVU generate fixup scripts before installation. See Also: The Fixup script does the following: If necessary sets kernel parameters to values required for successful installation, including: Shared memory parameters. Open file descriptor and UDP send/receive parameters. Sets permissions on the Oracle Inventory (central inventory) directory. Reconfigures primary and secondary group memberships for the installation owner, if necessary, for the Oracle Inventory directory and the operating system privileges groups. Sets shell limits if necessary to required values. If you have SSH configured between cluster member nodes for the user account that you will use for installation, then you can check your cluster configuration before installation and generate a fixup script to make operating system changes before starting the installation. To do this, log in as the user account that will perform the installation, navigate to the staging area where the runcluvfy command is located, and use the following command syntax, where node is a comma-delimited list of nodes you want to make cluster members: $ ./runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst -n node -fixup -verbose For example, if you intend to configure a two-node cluster with nodes node1 and node2, enter the following command: Before you install the Oracle software, you must complete several tasks as the Note: To enable remote display, complete one of the following procedures: If you are installing the software from an X Window System workstation or X terminal, then: Start a local terminal session, for example, an X terminal ( If you are not installing the software on the local system, then enter a command using the following syntax to enable remote hosts to display X applications on the local X server: where If you are not installing the software on the local system, then use the where If you are not logged in as the If you are installing the software from a PC or other system with X server software installed, then: Note: Start the X server software. Configure the security settings of the X server software to permit remote hosts to display X applications on the local system. Connect to the remote system where you want to install the software and start a terminal session on that system, for example, an X terminal ( If you are not logged in as the Log in as Note: Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist Creating Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and Users Note: When you install Oracle software on the system for the first time, OUI creates the In the preceding example, If you have an existing Oracle central inventory, then ensure that you use the same Oracle Inventory for all Oracle software installations, and ensure that all Oracle software users you intend to use for installation have permissions to write to this directory. To determine if you have an Oracle central inventory directory ( If the In the previous output example: The The Use the command If the The preceding command creates the oraInventory group By default, if an oraInventory group does not exist, then the installer lists the primary group of the installation owner for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster software as the oraInventory group. Ensure that this group is available as a primary group for all planned Oracle software installation owners. You must create a software owner for Oracle Grid Infrastructure in the following circumstances: If an Oracle software owner user does not exist; for example, if this is the first installation of Oracle software on the system If an Oracle software owner user exists, but you want to use a different operating system user, with different group membership, to separate grid infrastructure administrative privileges from Oracle Database administrative privileges. In Oracle documentation, a user created to own only Oracle Grid Infrastructure software installations is called the If you intend to use multiple Oracle software owners for different Oracle Database homes, then Oracle recommends that you create a separate software owner for Oracle Grid Infrastructure software (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM), and use that owner to run the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation. If you plan to install Oracle Database or Oracle RAC, then Oracle recommends that you create separate users for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure and the Oracle Database installations. If you use one installation owner, then when you want to perform administration tasks, you must change the value for $ORACLE_HOME to the instance you want to administer (ASM, in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, or the database in the Oracle home), using command syntax such as the following example, where grid is the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home: ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid; export ORACLE_HOME If you try to administer an instance using To create separate Oracle software owners to create separate users and separate operating system privileges groups for different Oracle software installations, note that each of these users must have the Oracle central inventory group (oraInventory group) as their primary group. Members of this group have write privileges to the Oracle central inventory ( Each Oracle software owner must be a member of the same central inventory group. You cannot have more than one central inventory for Oracle installations. If an Oracle software owner has a different central inventory group, then you may corrupt the central inventory. To determine whether an Oracle software owner user named If the user exists, then the output from this command is similar to the following: Determine whether you want to use the existing user, or create another user. The user and group ID numbers must be the same on each node you intend to make a cluster member node. To use the existing user, ensure that the user's primary group is the Oracle Inventory group ( If the Oracle software owner ( use the following procedure to create a new user: On the Security & Users menu, select Users. On the Users menu, select Add a User. Choose the appropriate menu items to create the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software installation owner ( Press Enter, then Esc+0 (Exit) to exit. Set the password of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software installation owner ( Ensure that the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software installation owner ( To check existing capabilities, enter the following command as To add capabilities, enter a command similar to the following: Repeat this procedure on all of the other nodes in the cluster. use the following procedure to modify an existing user: Enter the following command: Choose the appropriate menu items to modify the grid installation owner user. In the Primary GROUP field, specify the Oracle Inventory group, for example Press Enter, then Esc+0 (Exit) to exit. Repeat this procedure on all of the other nodes in the cluster. The Oracle base directory for the grid installation owner is the location where diagnostic and administrative logs, and other logs associated with Oracle ASM and Oracle Clusterware are stored. If you have created a path for the Oracle Clusterware home that is compliant with Oracle Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) guidelines for Oracle software paths then you do not need to create an Oracle base directory. When OUI finds an OFA-compliant path, it creates the Oracle base directory in that path. For OUI to recognize the path as an Oracle software path, it must be in the form u[00-99]/app, and it must be writable by any member of the oraInventory ( Oracle recommends that you create an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Grid home and Oracle base homes manually, particularly if you have separate Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster and Oracle Database software owners, so that you can separate log files. For example: Note: A Job Role Separation privileges configuration of Oracle ASM is a configuration with groups and users that divide administrative access privileges to the Oracle ASM installation from other administrative privileges users and groups associated with other Oracle installations. Administrative privileges access is granted by membership in separate operating system groups, and installation privileges are granted by using different installation owners for each Oracle installation. Note: If you prefer, you can allocate operating system user privileges so that you can use one administrative user and one group for operating system authentication for all system privileges on the storage and database tiers. For example, you can designate the Oracle recommends that you use at least two groups: A system privileges group whose members are granted administrative system privileges, and an installation owner group (the oraInventory group) to provide separate installation privileges the This section provides an overview of how to create users and groups to use Job Role Separation. Log in as Oracle recommends that you create the following operating system groups and users for all installations where you create separate software installation owners: One software owner to own each Oracle software product (typically, You must create at least one software owner the first time you install Oracle software on the system. This user owns the Oracle binaries of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software, and you can also make this user the owner of the Oracle Database or Oracle RAC binaries. Oracle software owners must have the Oracle Inventory group as their primary group, so that each Oracle software installation owner can write to the central inventory ( Oracle recommends that you create separate software owner users to own each Oracle software installation. Oracle particularly recommends that you do this if you intend to install multiple databases on the system. In Oracle documentation, a user created to own the Oracle Grid Infrastructure binaries is called the See Also: The following operating system groups and user are required if you are installing Oracle Database: The OSDBA group (typically, You must create this group the first time you install Oracle Database software on the system. This group identifies operating system user accounts that have database administrative privileges (the To specify a group name other than the default Members of the OSDBA group formerly were granted The OSOPER group for Oracle Database (typically, This is an optional group. Create this group if you want a separate group of operating system users to have a limited set of database administrative privileges (the To use the OSOPER group to create a database administrator group with fewer privileges than the default Select separate operating system groups as the operating system authentication groups for privileges on Oracle ASM. Before you start OUI, create the following groups and users for Oracle ASM The Oracle Automatic Storage Management Group (typically This is a required group. Create this group as a separate group if you want to have separate administration privilege groups for Oracle ASM and Oracle Database administrators. In Oracle documentation, the operating system group whose members are granted privileges is called the OSASM group, and in code examples, where there is a group specifically created to grant this privilege, it is referred to as If you have multiple databases on your system, and use multiple OSDBA groups so that you can provide separate SYSDBA privileges for each database, then you should create a separate OSASM group, and use a separate user from the database users to own the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM). Oracle ASM can support multiple databases. Members of the OSASM group can use SQL to connect to an Oracle ASM instance as The Oracle ASM Database Administrator group (OSDBA for ASM, typically Members of the Oracle ASM Database Administrator group (OSDBA for ASM) are granted read and write access to files managed by Oracle ASM. The Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner and all Oracle Database software owners must be a member of this group, and all users with OSDBA membership on databases that have access to the files managed by Oracle ASM must be members of the OSDBA group for ASM. Members of the Oracle ASM Operator Group (OSOPER for ASM, typically This is an optional group. Create this group if you want a separate group of operating system users to have a limited set of Oracle ASM instance administrative privileges (the SYSOPER for ASM privilege), including starting up and stopping the Oracle ASM instance. By default, members of the OSASM group also have all privileges granted by the SYSOPER for ASM privilege. To use the Oracle ASM Operator group to create an ASM administrator group with fewer privileges than the default The following sections describe how to create the required operating system user and groups:. Creating the OSDBA Group to Prepare for Database Installations Creating the OSDBA for ASM Group for Database Access to Oracle ASM Creating Identical Database Users and Groups on Other Cluster Nodes If you intend to install Oracle Database to use with the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, then you must create an OSDBA group in the following circumstances: An OSDBA group does not exist; for example, if this is the first installation of Oracle Database software on the system An OSDBA group exists, but you want to give a different group of operating system users database administrative privileges for a new Oracle Database installation If the OSDBA group does not exist, or if you require a new OSDBA group, then create it either by using Create an OSOPER group only if you want to identify a group of operating system users with a limited set of database administrative privileges (SYSOPER operator privileges). For most installations, it is sufficient to create only the OSDBA group. To use an OSOPER group, then you must create it in the following circumstances: If an OSOPER group does not exist; for example, if this is the first installation of Oracle Database software on the system If an OSOPER group exists, but you want to give a different group of operating system users database operator privileges in a new Oracle installation If you require a new OSOPER group, then create it either by using If the OSASM group does not exist or if you require a new OSASM group, then create it either by using Create an OSOPER for ASM group if you want to identify a group of operating system users, such as database administrators, whom you want to grant a limited set of Oracle ASM storage tier administrative privileges, including the ability to start up and shut down the Oracle ASM storage. For most installations, it is sufficient to create only the OSASM group, and provide that group as the OSOPER for ASM group during the installation interview. If you require a new OSOPER for ASM group, then create it either by using You must create an OSDBA for ASM group to provide access to the Oracle ASM instance. This is necessary if OSASM and OSDBA are different groups. If the OSDBA for ASM group does not exist or if you require a new OSDBA for ASM group, then create it either by using You must create an Oracle software owner user in the following circumstances: If an Oracle software owner user exists, but you want to use a different operating system user, with different group membership, to give database administrative privileges to those groups in a new Oracle Database installation If you have created an Oracle software owner for Oracle Grid Infrastructure, such as To determine whether an Oracle software owner user named If the user exists, then the output from this command is similar to the following: Determine whether you want to use the existing user, or create another user. To use the existing user, then ensure that the user's primary group is the Oracle Inventory group and that it is a member of the appropriate OSDBA and OSOPER groups. Refer to one of the following sections for more information: To modify an existing user, refer to Section 2.4.5.2.9, "Modifying an Existing Oracle Software Owner User". To create a user, refer to the following section. If the Oracle software owner user does not exist, or if you require a new Oracle software owner user, then create it as follows. Use the user name If the Start SMIT by entering From the Main Menu, make the following selections: Security and Users Groups Change/Show Characteristics of a Group The utility displays a form in which you can type the name of a specific group. Either fill in the group name or use the F4 key to highlight a group name and press the Enter key. The utility displays a form that provides the following fields: Group NAME, which is the group name for the account. Group ID, which is the Group Identification Number (GID). User list, which is a list of users who are members of the group. Use the F4 key to display a list of available users and the F7 key to mark the users you want to add. Modify these fields as needed and press the Enter key to exit the form. Oracle software owner users and the Oracle Inventory, OSDBA, and OSOPER groups must exist and be identical on all cluster nodes. To create these identical users and groups, you must identify the user ID and group IDs assigned them on the node where you created them, and then create the user and groups with the same name and ID on the other cluster nodes. Note: Identifying Existing User and Group IDs To determine the user ID (UID) of the Enter a command similar to the following (in this case, to determine a user ID for the The output from this command is similar to the following: From the output, identify the user ID ( Creating Users and Groups on the Other Cluster Nodes To create users and groups on the other cluster nodes, repeat the following procedure on each node: Log in to the next cluster node as Create groups and users as needed, either by using Note: To create the In the preceding command: The The The A grid installation owner: OSASM ( An Oracle Database installation owner without SYSASM privileges access: OSDBA ( Note: Set the password of the user. For example: Complete user environment configuration tasks for each user as described in Section 2.13.1, "Environment Requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Owner." The following is an example of how to use command lines to create the Oracle Inventory group ( After running these commands, you have the following groups and users: An Oracle central inventory group, or oraInventory group ( A single system privileges group that is used as the OSASM, OSDBA, OSDBA for ASM, and OSOPER for ASM group ( An Oracle grid installation for a cluster owner ( An Oracle Database owner ( The following is an example of how to create role-allocated groups and users that is compliant with an Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) deployment: After running these commands, you have the following groups and users: An Oracle central inventory group, or oraInventory group ( A separate OSASM group ( A separate OSDBA for ASM group ( A separate OSOPER for ASM group ( An Oracle grid installation for a cluster owner ( Two separate OSDBA groups for two different databases ( Two Oracle Database software owners ( An OFA-compliant mount point An Oracle base for the grid installation owner An Oracle base An Oracle base A Grid home Select servers with the same instruction set architecture. Ensure that the server is started with run level 2 (default or Normal Multi-User mode). Ensure servers run the same operating system level, APARs and filesets. Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) support servers with different hardware in the same cluster. Each system must meet the following minimum hardware requirements: At least 2.5 GB of RAM for Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster installations, including installations where you plan to install Oracle RAC. At least 1024 x 768 display resolution, so that Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) displays correctly Swap space equivalent to the multiple of the available RAM, as indicated in the following table: Note: 1 GB of disk space in the 13 GB of space for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster home (Grid home) This includes Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) files and log files, Oracle ACFS log files, and the Cluster Health Monitor repository. Note: 7.5 GB of disk space for the Oracle Database files (Oracle base) 2 GB of disk space for a preconfigured database that uses file system storage (optional) If you choose to configure automated backups, then you require additional disk space, either on a file system or in an Oracle Automatic Storage Management disk group. To ensure that each system meets these requirements, follow these steps: To determine the physical RAM size, enter the following command: If the size of the physical RAM installed in the system is less than the required size, then you must install more memory before continuing. To determine the available RAM and swap space, enter the following command: Note: Oracle recommends that you take multiple values for the available RAM and swap space before finalizing a value. This is because the available RAM and swap space keep changing depending on the user interactions with the computer. Contact your operating system vendor for swap space allocation guidance for your server. The vendor guidelines supersede the swap space requirements listed in this guide. To determine the size of the configured swap space, enter the following command: If necessary, refer to your operating system documentation for information about how to configure additional swap space. To determine the amount of disk space available in the If there is less than 1 GB of disk space available in the Delete unnecessary files from the Set the TEMP and TMPDIR environment variables when setting the Extend the file system that contains the To determine the amount of free disk space on the system, use one of the following commands, depending on where you intend to place Oracle Clusterware files: GPFS: Raw Logical Volumes in Concurrent VG (HACMP): in the following example, the variable Raw hard disks; in the following example, the variable To determine if the system is started in 64-bit mode, enter the following command: The result of this command should be 64, indicating that the 64-bit kernel is enabled. Review the following sections to check that you have the networking hardware and internet protocol (IP) addresses required for an Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster installation: Broadcast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure Multicast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure DNS Configuration for Domain Delegation to Grid Naming Service Note: The following is a list of requirements for network configuration: Each node must have at least two network adapters or network interface cards (NICs): one for the public network interface, and one for the private network interface (the interconnect). With Redundant Interconnect Usage, you can identify multiple interfaces to use for the cluster private network, without the need of using bonding or other technologies. This functionality is available starting with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2). When you define multiple interfaces, Oracle Clusterware creates from one to four highly available IP (HAIP) addresses. Oracle RAC and Oracle ASM instances use these interface addresses to ensure highly available, load-balanced interface communication between nodes. The installer enables Redundant Interconnect Usage to provide a high availability private network. By default, Oracle Grid Infrastructure software uses all of the HAIP addresses for private network communication, providing load-balancing across the set of interfaces you identify for the private network. If a private interconnect interface fails or become non-communicative, then Oracle Clusterware transparently moves the corresponding HAIP address to one of the remaining functional interfaces. Note: When you upgrade a node to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2 (11.2.0.2) and later, the upgraded system uses your existing network classifications. To configure multiple public interfaces, use a third-party technology for your platform to aggregate the multiple public interfaces before you start installation, and then select the single interface name for the combined interfaces as the public interface. Oracle recommends that you do not identify multiple public interface names during Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation. Note that if you configure two network interfaces as public network interfaces in the cluster without using an aggregation technology, the failure of one public interface on a node does not result in automatic VIP failover to the other public interface. Oracle recommends that you use the Redundant Interconnect Usage feature to make use of multiple interfaces for the private network. However, you can also use third-party technologies to provide redundancy for the private network. Note: Redundant Interconnect Usage requires a complete release 11.2.0.2 or higher stack (Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Databases). Prior release Oracle Databases cannot use this feature, and must use third-party NIC bonding technologies. If you consolidate different database releases in one cluster, and use databases prior to Oracle Database release 11.2.0.2, then you may require both technologies. If you install Oracle Clusterware using OUI, then the public interface names associated with the network adapters for each network must be the same on all nodes, and the private interface names associated with the network adaptors should be the same on all nodes. This restriction does not apply if you use cloning, either to create a new cluster, or to add nodes to an existing cluster. For example: With a two-node cluster, you cannot configure network adapters on See Also: For the public network, each network adapter must support TCP/IP. For the private network, the interface must support the user datagram protocol (UDP) using high-speed network adapters and switches that support TCP/IP (minimum requirement 1 Gigabit Ethernet). Note: Oracle does not support token-rings or crossover cables for the interconnect. Each node's private interface for interconnects must be on the same subnet, and those subnets must connect to every node of the cluster. For example, if the private interfaces have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, then your private network is in the range 192.168.0.0--192.168.0.255, and your private addresses must be in the range of 192.168.0.[0-255]. If the private interfaces have a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0, then your private addresses can be in the range of 192.168.[0-255].[0-255]. For the private network, the endpoints of all designated interconnect interfaces must be completely reachable on the network. There should be no node that is not connected to every private network interface. You can test if an interconnect interface is reachable using Before starting the installation, you must have at least two interfaces configured on each node: One for the private IP address and one for the public IP address. You can manage IP addresses and name resolution in the cluster in one of the following ways: Dynamic IP address assignment using Oracle Grid Naming Service (GNS). If you select this option, then network administrators assign static IP address for the physical host name and dynamically allocated IPs for the Oracle Clusterware managed VIP addresses. In this case, IP addresses for the VIPs are assigned by a DHCP and resolved using a multicast domain name server configured as part of Oracle Clusterware within the cluster. If you plan to use GNS, then you must have the following: A DHCP service running on the public network for the cluster Enough addresses on the DHCP to provide 1 IP address for each node's virtual IP, and 3 IP addresses for the cluster used by the Single Client Access Name (SCAN) for the cluster Static IP address assignment. If you select this option, then network administrators assign a fixed IP address for each physical host name in the cluster and for IPs for the Oracle Clusterware managed VIPs. In addition, domain name server (DNS) based static name resolution is used for each node. Selecting this option requires that you request network administration updates when you modify the cluster. Note: Public IP addresses and virtual IP addresses must be in the same subnet. Oracle only supports DHCP-assigned networks for the default network, not for any subsequent networks. If you enable Grid Naming Service (GNS), then name resolution requests to the cluster are delegated to the GNS, which is listening on the GNS virtual IP address. You define this address in the DNS domain before installation. The DNS must be configured to delegate resolution requests for cluster names (any names in the subdomain delegated to the cluster) to the GNS. When a request comes to the domain, GNS processes the requests and responds with the appropriate addresses for the name requested. To use GNS, before installation the DNS administrator must establish DNS Lookup to direct DNS resolution of a subdomain to the cluster. If you enable GNS, then you must have a DHCP service on the public network that allows the cluster to dynamically allocate the virtual IP addresses as required by the cluster. Note: If you have vendor clusterware installed, then you cannot choose to use GNS, because the vendor clusterware does not support it. You cannot use GNS with another multicast DNS. If you want to use GNS, then disable any third party mDNS daemons on your system. If you do not enable GNS, then the public and virtual IP addresses for each node must be static IP addresses, configured before installation for each node, but not currently in use. Public and virtual IP addresses must be on the same subnet. Oracle Clusterware manages private IP addresses in the private subnet on interfaces you identify as private during the installation interview. The cluster must have the following addresses configured: A public IP address for each node, with the following characteristics: Static IP address Configured before installation for each node, and resolvable to that node before installation On the same subnet as all other public IP addresses, VIP addresses, and SCAN addresses A virtual IP address for each node, with the following characteristics: Static IP address Configured before installation for each node, but not currently in use On the same subnet as all other public IP addresses, VIP addresses, and SCAN addresses Conforms with the RFC 952 standard, which allows alphanumeric characters and hyphens ("-"), but does not allow underscores ("_"). A Single Client Access Name (SCAN) for the cluster, with the following characteristics: Three Static IP addresses configured on the domain name server (DNS) before installation so that the three IP addresses are associated with the name provided as the SCAN, and all three addresses are returned in random order by the DNS to the requestor Configured before installation in the DNS to resolve to addresses that are not currently in use Given a name that does not begin with a numeral On the same subnet as all other public IP addresses, VIP addresses, and SCAN addresses Conforms with the RFC 952 standard, which allows alphanumeric characters and hyphens ("-"), but does not allow underscores ("_"). A private IP address for each node, with the following characteristics: Static IP address Configured before installation, but on a separate, private network, with its own subnet, that is not resolvable except by other cluster member nodes The SCAN is a name used to provide service access for clients to the cluster. Because the SCAN is associated with the cluster as a whole, rather than to a particular node, the SCAN makes it possible to add or remove nodes from the cluster without needing to reconfigure clients. It also adds location independence for the databases, so that client configuration does not have to depend on which nodes are running a particular database. Clients can continue to access the cluster in the same way as with previous releases, but Oracle recommends that clients accessing the cluster use the SCAN. Note: Both the SCAN and the cluster name must be at least one character long and no more than 15 characters in length, must be alphanumeric, cannot begin with a numeral, and may contain hyphens (-). You can use the nslookup command to confirm that the DNS is correctly associating the SCAN with the addresses. For example: After installation, when a client sends a request to the cluster, the Oracle Clusterware SCAN listeners redirect client requests to servers in the cluster. Note: Configuring SCANs in a DNS or a hosts file is the only supported configuration. Configuring SCANs in a Network Information Service (NIS) is not supported. See Also: Broadcast communications (ARP and UDP) must work properly across all the public and private interfaces configured for use by Oracle Grid Infrastructure release 2 patchset 1 (11.2.0.2) and later releases. The broadcast must work across any configured VLANs as used by the public or private interfaces. With Oracle Grid Infrastructure release 2 (11.2), on each cluster member node, the Oracle mDNS daemon uses multicasting on all interfaces to communicate with other nodes in the cluster. With Oracle Grid Infrastructure release 2 patchset 1 (11.2.0.2) and later releases, multicasting is required on the private interconnect. For this reason, at a minimum, you must enable multicasting for the cluster: Across the broadcast domain as defined for the private interconnect On the IP address subnet ranges 224.0.0.0/24 and 230.0.1.0/24 You do not need to enable multicast communications across routers. If you plan to use GNS, then before Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, you must configure your domain name server (DNS) to send to GNS name resolution requests for the subdomain GNS serves, which are the cluster member nodes. The following is an overview of what needs to be done for domain delegation. Your actual procedure may be different from this example. Configure the DNS to send GNS name resolution requests using delegation: In the DNS, create an entry for the GNS virtual IP address, where the address uses the form gns-server.CLUSTERNAME.DOMAINNAME. For example, where the cluster name is The address you provide must be routable. Set up forwarding of the GNS subdomain to the GNS virtual IP address, so that GNS resolves addresses to the GNS subdomain. To do this, create a BIND configuration entry similar to the following for the delegated domain, where When using GNS, you must configure Note: If you use GNS, then you need to specify a static IP address for the GNS VIP address, and delegate a subdomain to be delegated to that static GNS IP address. As nodes are added to the cluster, your organization's DHCP server can provide addresses for these nodes dynamically. These addresses are then registered automatically in GNS, and GNS provides resolution within the subdomain to cluster node addresses registered with GNS. Because allocation and configuration of addresses is performed automatically with GNS, no further configuration is required. Oracle Clusterware provides dynamic network configuration as nodes are added to or removed from the cluster. The following example is provided only for information. With a two node cluster where you have defined the GNS VIP, after installation you might have a configuration similar to the following for a two-node cluster, where the cluster name is Table 2-1 Grid Naming Service Example Network GNS VIP None Selected by Oracle Clusterware virtual 192.0.2.1 Fixed by net administrator DNS Node 1 Public Node 1 Public 192.0.2.101 Fixed GNS Node 1 VIP Node 1 Selected by Oracle Clusterware Virtual 192.0.2.104 DHCP GNS Node 1 Private Node 1 Private 192.168.0.1 Fixed or DHCP GNS Node 2 Public Node 2 Public 192.0.2.102 Fixed GNS Node 2 VIP Node 2 Selected by Oracle Clusterware Virtual 192.0.2.105 DHCP GNS Node 2 Private Node 2 Private 192.168.0.2 Fixed or DHCP GNS SCAN VIP 1 none Selected by Oracle Clusterware virtual 192.0.2.201 DHCP GNS SCAN VIP 2 none Selected by Oracle Clusterware virtual 192.0.2.202 DHCP GNS SCAN VIP 3 none Selected by Oracle Clusterware virtual 192.0.2.203 DHCP GNS Footnote 1 Node host names may resolve to multiple addresses, including VIP addresses currently running on that host. If you choose not to use GNS, then before installation you must configure public, virtual, and private IP addresses. Also, check that the default gateway can be accessed by a For example, with a two node cluster where each node has one public and one private interface, and you have defined a SCAN domain address to resolve on your DNS to one of three IP addresses, you might have the configuration shown in the following table for your network interfaces: Table 2-2 Manual Network Configuration Example Node 1 Public Node 1 Public 192.0.2.101 Fixed DNS Node 1 VIP Node 1 Selected by Oracle Clusterware Virtual 192.0.2.104 Fixed DNS and hosts file Node 1 Private Node 1 Private 192.168.0.1 Fixed DNS and hosts file, or none Node 2 Public Node 2 Public 192.0.2.102 Fixed DNS Node 2 VIP Node 2 Selected by Oracle Clusterware Virtual 192.0.2.105 Fixed DNS and hosts file Node 2 Private Node 2 Private 192.168.0.2 Fixed DNS and hosts file, or none SCAN VIP 1 none Selected by Oracle Clusterware mycluster-scan virtual 192.0.2.201 Fixed DNS SCAN VIP 2 none Selected by Oracle Clusterware mycluster-scan virtual 192.0.2.202 Fixed DNS SCAN VIP 3 none Selected by Oracle Clusterware mycluster-scan virtual 192.0.2.203 Fixed DNS Footnote 1 Node hostnames may resolve to multiple addresses. You do not need to provide a private name for the interconnect. If you want name resolution for the interconnect, then you can configure private IP names in the hosts file or the DNS. However, Oracle Clusterware assigns interconnect addresses on the interface defined during installation as the private interface ( The addresses to which the SCAN resolves are assigned by Oracle Clusterware, so they are not fixed to a particular node. To enable VIP failover, the configuration shown in the preceding table defines the SCAN addresses and the public and VIP addresses of both nodes on the same subnet, 192.0.2. Note: The precise configuration you choose for your network depends on the size and use of the cluster you want to configure, and the level of availability you require. If certified Network-attached Storage (NAS) is used for Oracle RAC and this storage is connected through Ethernet-based networks, then you must have a third network interface for NAS I/O. Failing to provide three separate interfaces in this case can cause performance and stability problems under load. Depending on the products that you intend to install, verify that the following operating system software is installed on the system. To check these requirements refer to Chapter 2, "Checking the Software Requirements." Requirements listed here are current as of the initial release date. To obtain the most current information about kernel requirements, refer to the online version on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at the following URL: OUI performs checks your system to verify that it meets the listed operating system package requirements. To ensure that these checks complete successfully, verify the requirements before you start OUI. Table 2-3 AIX Operating System Kernel Requirements Operating systems AIX 7.1 TL 0 SP1 (" 7100-00-01") 64-bit kernel AIX 6.1 TL 04 SP1 ("6100-02-01"), 64-bit kernel (Note: Ensure that the operating system level is "Technology Level 02 Service Pack 01 or higher") AIX 5L V5.3 TL 09 SP1 ("5300-09-01"), 64 bit kernel or later AIX 7L operating system filesets The following operating system filesets are required: You must have the IBM XL C/C++ runtime filesets for installation, but you do not require the C/C++ compilers. You do not require a license for the XL C/C++ runtim e filesets. AIX 6L operating system filesets The following operating system filesets are required: You must have the IBM XL C/C++ runtime filesets for installation, but you do not require the C/C++ compilers. You do not require a license for the XL C/C++ runtime filesets. Version: IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition for AIX, V9.0 September 2008 PTF AIX 5L operating system filesets The following operating system filesets are required: You must have the IBM XL C/C++ runtime filesets for installation, but you do not require the C/C++ compilers. You do not require a license for the XL C/C++ runtime filesets. Version: IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition for AIX, V9.0 September 2008 PTF Obtaining C/C++ Compilers For AIX7L, check My Oracle Support Certifications for current requirements. Certifications are available on the following URL: The minimum supported compiler for Oracle Grid Infrastructure is V. 9.0. To obtain the XLC runtime filesets, download the C/C++ compiler from the following Web site: Download the C runtime environment file sets, with no license requirement, from the following Web site: Oracle RAC and HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP) 5.4.1 Note: HACMP is required only if you want to use raw logical volumes for Oracle Clusterware or database file storage. However, it is supported for all installations. You cannot use raw devices for OCR or voting disk files. For AIX7L, if you want to use HACMP or GPFS, then check My Oracle Support Certification for current requirements. Certifications are available on the following URL: If you do not want to use HACMP, then you must not have HACMP installed on your system. If you have previously installed HACMP, then you must remove the following: HACMP filesets ( If you want to use HACMP, then review patch sets to ensure that you have required patches. Changes in the fileset packaging of HACMP 5.4, including 5.4.1, require updates to the Oracle Oracle RAC and GPFS General Parallel File System (GPFS): AIX 7L AIX 6L: AIX 5L: Note: GPFS is not required. Install GPFS only if you want to use a cluster file system in addition to Oracle Clusterware. SSH Oracle Clusterware requires SSH. The required SSH software is the default SSH shipped with your operating system. ADA OC Systems PowerAda 5.4d For AIX7L, check My Oracle Support Certification for current requirements. Certifications are available on the following URL: JDK Use one of the following Java versions: Java 6 64-bit 6.0.0.50 IZ30726 (SR2) Java 5 64-bit 5.0.0.250 IZ55274 (SR8a) For AIX7L, check My Oracle Support Certification for current requirements. Certifications are available on the following URL: Pro*FORTRAN IBM XL Fortran v. 11.1 April 2008 PTF for AIX For AIX7L, check My Oracle Support Certification for current requirements. Certifications are available on the following URL: Pro*C/C++, Oracle Call Interface, Oracle C++ Call Interface, Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK), GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Note: If you do not install the C/C++ compilers, then you require the C/C++ runtime filesets for installation as described in the "Operating system filesets" row in this table. IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition for AIX, V9.0 April 2008 PTF: You can download the PTF from the following link: Download the C++ runtime environment file sets, with no license requirement, from the following Web site: gcc 3.45 For AIX7L, check My Oracle Support Certification for current requirements. Certifications are available on the following URL: Pro*COBOL IBM COBOL for AIX version 3.1 Micro Focus Server Express 5.1 For AIX7L, check My Oracle Support Certification for current requirements. Certifications are available on the following URL: Oracle Messaging Gateway IBM WebSphere MQ V6.0.2.0, client and server: For AIX7L, check My Oracle Support Certification for current requirements. Certifications are available on the following URL: Verify that the following patches are installed on the system. The procedure following the table describes how to check these requirements Note: Table 2-4 AIX APAR and Other Operating System Fixes AIX 7L installations AIX 6L installations If you are using a later TL level than the minimum level listed for this release, then contact IBM to determine if the required APARs listed here are included in the TL level that you have on your system. If they are included, then you do not need to install them. If they are not included, then you must install the equivalent APAR for the appropriate TL level. If you are using the minimum operating system TL level for AIX 6L listed above, then install all AIX 6L 6.1 Authorized Problem Analysis Reports (APARs) for AIX 6.1 TL 02 SP1, and the following AIX fixes: These 6.1 fixes are already present in the following TL levels: AIX 6.1 TL-02 SP-04 and later AIX 6.1 TL-03 SP-02 and later AIX 6.1 TL-04 AIX 5L installations If you are using a later TL level than the minimum level listed for this release, then check with IBM to determine if the required APARs listed here are included in the TL level that you have on your system. If they are included, then you do not need to install them. If they are not included, then you must install the equivalent APAR for the appropriate TL level. If you are using the minimum operating system TL level for AIX 5L listed above, then install all AIX 5L 5.3 Authorized Problem Analysis Reports (APARs) for AIX 5L v. 5.3 ML06, and the following AIX fixes: These fixes are already present in the following TL levels: AIX 5.3 TL-09 SP-05 and later AIX 5.3 TL-10 SP-02 and later AIX 5.3 TL-11 Oracle JDBC/OCI Drivers AIX 5L v5.3 Note: These APARs are required only if you are using the associated JDK version. APAR required for JDK 1.4.2 (64-bit): IY63533: JDK 1.4.2 64-bit SR1 caix64142-20040917 Oracle ODBC Drivers You do not require ODBC drivers for Oracle Clusterware or Oracle Database. To use ODBC with Oracle Database, you must also install gcc 3.4.5 or later. Oracle ODBC driver on AIX is certified with ODBC Driver Manager 2.2.12. You can download and install the Driver Manager from the following link: To ensure that the system meets these requirements: To determine the version of AIX installed, enter the following command: If the operating system version is lower than AIX 5.3, then upgrade your operating system to at least this maintenance level. AIX 5L version 5.3 maintenance packages are available from the following Web site: To determine whether the required filesets are installed and committed, enter a command similar to the following: If a fileset is not installed and committed, then install it. Refer to your operating system or software documentation for information about installing filesets. To ensure that the system meets these requirements: To determine if required APARs are installed, enter a command similar to the following: If an APAR is not installed, then download it from the following Web site and install it: To determine whether a PTF is installed, enter a command similar to the following: If a PTF is not installed, then download it from the following Web site and install it: If you require a CSD for WebSphere MQ, then refer to the following Web site for download and installation information: Use NDD to ensure that the AIX kernel TCP/IP ephemeral port range is broad enough to provide enough ephemeral ports for the anticipated server workload. Ensure that the lower range is set to at least 9000 or higher, to avoid Well Known ports, and to avoid ports in the Registered Ports range commonly used by Oracle and other server ports. Set the port range high enough to avoid reserved ports for any applications you may intend to use. If the lower value of the range you have is greater than 9000, and the range is large enough for your anticipated workload, then you can ignore OUI warnings regarding the ephemeral port range. For example: In the preceding example, the TCP and UDP ephemeral ports are set to the default range (32768-65536). If you expect your workload to require a high number of ephemeral ports, then update the UDP and TCP ephemeral port range to a broader range. For example: Perform the following system tuning and configuration all cluster nodes. Note: On AIX 5, run the Confirm the AIX 6.1 AIX 5.3 When performing an asynchronous I/O to a file system, note that each asynchronous I/O operation is tied to an asynchronous I/O server. Thus, the number of asynchronous I/O servers limits the number of concurrent asynchronous I/O operations in the system. The initial number of servers that are started during a system restart is determined by the On AIX 5.3, if you are using Oracle Database with data files on a file system, then increase the default values for In general, to set the number of asynchronous I/O servers, complete the following procedure: Adjust the initial value of maxservers to 10 times the number of disks that are to be used concurrently but no more than 80. Monitor the performance effects on the system during periods of high I/O activity. If all AIO server processes are started, then increase the maxservers value. Also, continue to monitor the system performance during peak I/O activity to determine if there was a benefit from the additional AIO servers. Too many asynchronous I/O servers increase memory and processor overload of additional processes, but this disadvantage is small. To monitor the number of AIO server processes that have started, enter the following command: Oracle recommends that you use the Table 2-5 Recommended Values for Virtual Memory Manager minperm% 3 (AIX 5.3 default is 20) maxperm% 90 (AIX 5.3 default is 80) maxclient% = 90 90 (AIX 5.3 default is 80) lru_file_repage 0 (AIX 5.3 default is 1) strict_maxclient 1 (AIX 5.3 default is 1) strict_maxperm 0 (AIX 5.3 default is 0) For example: You must restart the system for these changes to take effect. Oracle recommends that you increase the space allocated for ARG/ENV list to 128. The size is specified by number of 4K blocks. For example: On AIX systems, the OpenSSH parameter LoginGraceTime by default is commented out, and the default behavior of OpenSSH on AIX can sometimes result in timeout errors. To avoid these errors, complete the following procedure: Log in as root. Using a text editor, open the OpenSSH configuration file Locate the comment line Uncomment the line, and change the value to Save Restart SSH. Set shell limits for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner and for root. Verify that unlimited is set for both accounts either by using the smit utility or by editing the Add the following lines to the Enter the following command to list the current setting for the maximum number of process allowed by the Oracle software user: If necessary, change the Repeat this procedure on all other nodes in the cluster. Caution: Verify that the maximum number of processes allowed for each user is set to 2048 or greater: Note: Enter the following command: Verify that the value shown for Maximum number of PROCESSES allowed for each user is greater than or equal to 2048. If necessary, edit the existing value. When you have finished making changes, press Enter, then Esc+0 (Exit) to exit. Verify that the network tuning parameters shown in the following table are set to the values shown or higher values. The procedure following the table describes how to verify and set the values. Note: The recommended value of this parameter is 10 times the value of the udp_sendspace parameter. The value must be less than the value of the sb_max parameter. Note: This value is suitable for a default database installation. For production databases, the minimum value for this parameter is 4 KB plus the value of the database ( To view the current value specified for these parameters, and to change them if necessary: To check the current values of the network tuning parameters, enter commands similar to the following: If you must change the value of any parameter, then enter the following command to determine whether the system is running in compatibility mode: If the system is running in compatibility mode, then the output is similar to the following, showing that the value of the pre520tune attribute is enabled: If the system is running in compatibility mode, then follow these steps to change the parameter values: Enter commands similar to the following to change the value of each parameter: For example: Add entries similar to the following to the By adding these lines to the If the system is not running in compatibility mode, then enter commands similar to the following to change the parameter values: Other parameter: Note: These commands modify the If you need to change parameters, and you do not restart your system, then use the For example: For the ISNO parameter tcp_sendspace, use the following command to set it: See Also: Oracle Clusterware requires the same time zone setting on all cluster nodes. During installation, the installation process picks up the time zone setting of the Grid installation owner on the node where OUI runs, and uses that on all nodes as the default TZ setting for all processes managed by Oracle Clusterware. This default is used for databases, Oracle ASM, and any other managed processes. You have two options for time synchronization: an operating system configured network time protocol (NTP), or Oracle Cluster Time Synchronization Service. Oracle Cluster Time Synchronization Service is designed for organizations whose cluster servers are unable to access NTP services. If you use NTP, then the Oracle Cluster Time Synchronization daemon (ctssd) starts up in observer mode. If you do not have NTP daemons, then Note: If you have NTP daemons on your server but you cannot configure them to synchronize time with a time server, and you want to use Cluster Time Synchronization Service to provide synchronization service in the cluster, then deactivate and deinstall the NTP. To disable the NTP service, run the following command as the When the installer finds that the NTP protocol is not active, the Cluster Time Synchronization Service is installed in active mode and synchronizes the time across the nodes. If NTP is found configured, then the Cluster Time Synchronization Service is started in observer mode, and no active time synchronization is performed by Oracle Clusterware within the cluster. To confirm that If you are using NTP, and you prefer to continue using it instead of Cluster Time Synchronization Service, then you need to modify the NTP initialization file to enable slewing, which prevents time from being adjusted backward. Restart the network time protocol daemon after you complete this task. To do this on AIX, configure the XNTP daemon to start at each system restart by editing the file Open the Change the line to the following: Save the file. To enable XNTP after it has been disabled, enter the following command on each cluster member node: To install Oracle software, Secure Shell (SSH) connectivity should be set up between all cluster member nodes. OUI uses the Note: You can configure SSH from the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) interface during installation for the user account running the installation. The automatic configuration creates passwordless SSH connectivity between all cluster member nodes. Oracle recommends that you use the automatic procedure if possible. To enable the script to run, you must remove See Also: By default, OUI searches for SSH public keys in the directory In rare cases, Oracle Clusterware installation may fail during the "AttachHome" operation when the remote node closes the SSH connection. To avoid this problem, set the following parameter in the SSH daemon configuration file /etc/ssh/sshd_config on all cluster nodes to set the timeout wait to unlimited: You run the installer software with the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner user account ( This section contains the following topics: Environment Requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Owner Environment Requirements for Oracle Database and Oracle ASM Owners Preventing Installation Errors Caused by Terminal Output Commands You must make the following changes to configure the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software owner environment: Set the installation software owner user ( Set ulimit settings for file descriptors and processes for the installation software owner ( Set the software owner's environment variable DISPLAY environment variables in preparation for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation If you intend to install Oracle Database or Oracle ASM, then complete the following additional tasks. If you plan to install other software using the role-based privileges method, then complete the following tasks for the Oracle Database software owner ( Create an Oracle Base path. The Optimal Flexible Architecture path for the Oracle Base is Note: Set the installation software owner user ( Set the software owners' environment variable DISPLAY environment variables in preparation for the Oracle ASM or Oracle Database installation To set the Oracle software owners' environments, follow these steps, for each software owner ( Start a new terminal session; for example, start an X terminal ( Enter the following command to ensure that X Window applications can display on this system: The hostname is the name of the local host. If you are not already logged in to the system where you want to install the software, then log in to that system as the software owner user. If you are not logged in as the user, then switch to the software owner user you are configuring. For example, with the To determine the default shell for the user, enter the following command: Open the user's shell startup file in any text editor: Bourne shell ( C shell ( Enter or edit the following line, specifying a value of 022 for the default file mode creation mask: If the Save the file, and exit from the text editor. To run the shell startup script, enter one of the following commands: Bourne, Bash, or Korn shell: C shell: If you are not installing the software on the local system, then enter a command similar to the following to direct X applications to display on the local system: Bourne, Bash, or Korn shell: C shell: In this example, If you determined that the Note: Use the If necessary, enter commands similar to the following to create a temporary directory on the file system that you identified, and set the appropriate permissions on the directory: Enter commands similar to the following to set the TEMP and TMPDIR environment variables: Bourne, Bash, or Korn shell: C shell: If you are on a remote terminal, and the local node has only one visual (which is typical), then use the following syntax to set the DISPLAY environment variable: Bourne, Korn, and Bash shells C shell: For example, if you are using the Bash shell, and if your host name is To ensure that X11 forwarding will not cause the installation to fail, create a user-level SSH client configuration file for the Oracle software owner user, as follows: Using any text editor, edit or create the software installation owner's Make sure that the ForwardX11 attribute is set to During an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, OUI uses SSH to run commands and copy files to the other nodes. During the installation, hidden files on the system (for example, To avoid this problem, you must modify these files in each Oracle installation owner user home directory to suppress all output on Bourne, Bash, or Korn shell: C shell: Note: If there are hidden files that contain Note: Run the Switch user to root: Complete one of the following steps, depending on the location of the installation If the installation files are on disc, enter a command similar to the following, where If the installation files are on the hard disk, change directory to the Disk1 directory and enter the following command: Exit from the root account: Repeat steps 1 through 3 on all nodes of the cluster. Note: If you have HACMP installed on your system, then the Enter commands similar to the following to add the Oracle Grid Infrastructure owner ( After you add the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner to the During installation, you are prompted to provide a path to a home directory to store Oracle Clusterware binaries. Ensure that the directory path you provide meets the following requirements: It should be created in a path outside existing Oracle homes, including Oracle Clusterware homes. It should not be located in a user home directory. It should be created either as a subdirectory in a path where all files can be owned by If you create the path before installation, then it should be owned by the installation owner of Oracle Grid Infrastructure (typically Oracle recommends that you install Oracle Grid Infrastructure on local homes, rather than using a shared home on shared storage. For installations with Oracle Grid Infrastructure only, Oracle recommends that you create a path compliant with Oracle Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) guidelines, so that Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) can select that directory during installation. For OUI to recognize the path as an Oracle software path, it must be in the form u0[1-9]/app. When OUI finds an OFA-compliant path, it creates the Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Inventory ( To create an Oracle Grid Infrastructure path manually, ensure that it is in a separate path, not under an existing Oracle base path. For example: With this path, if the installation owner is named grid, then by default OUI creates the following path for the Grid home: Create an Oracle base path for database installations, owned by the Oracle Database installation owner account. The OFA path for an Oracle base is Note: Oracle Grid Infrastructure homes can be placed in a local home on servers, even if your existing Oracle Clusterware home from a prior release is in a shared location. Homes for Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server (Oracle Restart) can be under Oracle base. Refer to Oracle Database Installation Guide for your platform for more information about Oracle Restart. The cluster name must be at least one character long and no more than 15 characters in length, must be alphanumeric, cannot begin with a numeral, and may contain hyphens (-). In a Typical installation, the SCAN you provide is also the name of the cluster, so the SCAN name must meet the requirements for a cluster name. In an Advanced installation, The SCAN and cluster name are entered in separate fields during installation, so cluster name requirements do not apply to the SCAN name. This chapter describes how to remove Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM. Starting with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2), Oracle recommends that you use the deinstallation tool to remove the entire Oracle home associated with the Oracle Database, Oracle Clusterware, Oracle ASM, Oracle RAC, or Oracle Database client installation. Oracle does not support the removal of individual products or components. This chapter contains the following topics: See Also: Remove installed components in the following situations: You have successfully installed Oracle Clusterware, and you want to remove the Oracle Clusterware installation, either in an educational environment, or a test environment. You have encountered errors during or after installing or upgrading Oracle Clusterware, and you want to reattempt an installation. Your installation or upgrade stopped because of a hardware or operating system failure. You are advised by Oracle Support to reinstall Oracle Clusterware. If you have an Oracle Database installation using Oracle Restart (that is, an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation for a standalone server), and you want to configure that server as a cluster member node, then complete the following tasks: Note: Inspect the Oracle Restart configuration with srvctl config database -d db_unique_name srvctl config service -d db_unique_name srvctl config listener -l lsnrname Write down the configuration information for the server. Change directory to Grid home Stop all of the databases, services, and listeners that you discovered in step 1. If present, unmount all Oracle ACFS filesystems. Deconfigure and deinstall the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation for a standalone server, using the following command: Prepare the server for Oracle Clusterware configuration, as described in this document. As the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner, run Oracle Clusterware Configuration Wizard, and save and stage the response file. For example: Run Mount the Oracle Restart disk group Enter the Mount all Oracle ACFS filesystems manually. Add back Oracle Clusterware services to the Oracle Clusterware home, using the information you wrote down in step 1, including adding back Oracle ACFS resources. For example: Add the Oracle Database for support by Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster, using the configuration information you recorded in step 1. Use the following command syntax, where db_unique_name is the unique name of the database on the node, and nodename is the name of the node: srvctl add database -d db_unique_name -o $ORACLE_HOME -x nodename For example, with the database name Add each service to the database, using the command After installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM configured for a cluster), if you need to modify the binaries, then use the following procedure, where Caution: As root: As the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster owner: As root again: As the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster owner, where Grid_home is the path of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home: You must relink the Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM binaries every time you apply an operating system patch or after an operating system upgrade. For upgrades from previous releases, if you want to deinstall the prior release Grid home, then you must first unlock the prior release Grid home. Unlock the previous release Grid home by running the command rootcrs.pl -unlock from the previous release home. After the script has completed, you can run the deinstall command. After installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM configured for a cluster), if you need to change the Grid home path, then use the following example as a guide to detach the existing Grid home, and to attach a new Grid home: Caution: Detach the existing Grid home by running the following command as the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner ( As root, move the Grid binaries from the old Grid home location to the new Grid home location. For example, where the old Grid home is Clone the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, using the instructions provided in "Creating a Cluster by Cloning Oracle Clusterware Step 3: Run the clone.pl Script on Each Destination Node," in Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide. When you navigate to the As root again, enter the following command to start up in the new home location: Repeat steps 1 through 4 on each cluster member node. You must relink the Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM binaries every time you move the Grid home. Running the Note: Caution: To deconfigure Oracle Clusterware: Log in as the Change directory to Grid_home/crs/install. For example: Run rootcrs.pl with the -deconfig -force flags. For example: Repeat on other nodes as required. If you are deconfiguring Oracle Clusterware on all nodes in the cluster, then on the last node, enter the following command: The The Downloading The Deinstall Tool for Use with Failed Installations Deinstall Command Example for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM Deinstallation Parameter File Example for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster The Deinstallation Tool ( You can download the Deinstallation tool with the complete Oracle Database 11g release 2 software, or as a separate archive file. To download the Deinstallation tool separately, click the See All link next to the software version. Caution: admin cfgtoollogs checkpoints diag oradata flash_recovery_area Oracle strongly recommends that you configure your installations using an Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) configuration, and that you reserve Oracle base and Oracle home paths for exclusive use of Oracle software. If you have any user data in these locations in the Oracle base that is owned by the user account that owns the Oracle software, then the The command uses the following syntax, where variable content is indicated by italics: The default method for running the deinstall tool is from the deinstall directory in the Grid home. For example: In addition, you can run the deinstall tool from other locations, or with a parameter file, or select other options to run the tool. The options are: Use this flag to indicate the home path of the Oracle home that you want to check or deinstall. To deinstall Oracle software using the If you run - Use this flag to run the command in noninteractive mode. This option requires a properties file that contains the configuration values for the Oracle home that is being deinstalled or deconfigured. To create a properties file and provide the required parameters, refer to the template file If you have a working system, then instead of using the template file, you can generate a properties file by running the Use this flag to check the status of the Oracle software home configuration. Running the command with the Use this flag on a multinode non-shared environment to deconfigure Oracle software in a cluster. When you run - Use this flag to force the removal of all contents in the Oracle base directory, including the Use this flag to run The default location of the parameter file depends on the location of From the installation media or stage location: From a unzipped archive file from Oracle Technology Network (OTN): After installation from the installed Oracle home: Use this flag with a parameter file to override one or more values in a parameter file you have already created. - Use this flag to provide a path other than the default location where the properties file ( The default location of the parameter file depends on the location of From the installation media or stage location before installation: From a unzipped archive file from OTN: After installation from the installed Oracle home: Use the help option ( For upgrades from previous releases, if you want to deinstall the previous release Grid home, then as the For example: In this example, You can use the Deinstallation tool ( To download the Deinstallation tool: Go to the following URL: Under Oracle Database 11g Release 2, click See All for the respective platform for which you want to download the Deinstallation Tool. The Deinstallation tool is available for download at the end of this page. As the To run the You can run generate a You can run the Note: Around addresses in CRS_NODEVIPS: Around interface names in NETWORKS: This chapter describes the procedures for installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster. Oracle Grid Infrastructure consists of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management. If you plan afterward to install Oracle Database with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), then this is phase one of a two-phase installation. This chapter contains the following topics: Before you install Oracle Grid Infrastructure with the installer, use the following checklist to ensure that you have all the information you will need during installation, and to ensure that you have completed all tasks that must be done before starting your installation. Check off each task in the following list as you complete it, and write down the information needed, so that you can provide it during installation. Shut Down Running Oracle Processes You may need to shut down running Oracle processes: Installing on a node with a standalone database not using Oracle ASM: You do not need to shut down the database while you install Oracle Grid Infrastructure software. Installing on a node that already has a standalone Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) installation running on Oracle ASM: Stop the existing Oracle ASM instances. The Oracle ASM instances are restarted during the installation. Installing on an Oracle RAC Database node: This installation requires an upgrade of Oracle Clusterware, as Oracle Clusterware is required to run Oracle RAC. As part of the upgrade, you must shut down the database one node at a time as the rolling upgrade proceeds from node to node. Note: If a Global Services Daemon (GSD) from Oracle9i Release 9.2 or earlier is running, then stop it before installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure by running the following command: where Caution: Note: where Prepare for Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Oracle Clusterware Upgrade If You Have Existing Installations During the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, existing Oracle Clusterware and clustered Oracle ASM installations are both upgraded. When all member nodes of the cluster are running Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2 (11.2), then the new clusterware becomes the active version. If you intend to install Oracle RAC, then you must first complete the upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2 (11.2) on all cluster nodes before you install the Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) version of Oracle RAC. Note: Determine the Oracle Inventory (oraInventory) location If you have already installed Oracle software on your system, then OUI detects the existing Oracle Inventory (oraInventory) directory from the If you are installing Oracle software for the first time on your system, and your system does not have an oraInventory directory, then the installer designates the installation owner's primary group as the Oracle Inventory group. Ensure that this group is available as a primary group for all planned Oracle software installation owners. Note: See Also: Obtain root account access During installation, you are asked to run configuration scripts as the Decide if you want to install other languages During installation, you are asked if you want translation of user interface text into languages other than the default, which is English. Note: See Also: Determine your cluster name, public node names, the SCAN, virtual node names, GNS VIP and planned interface use for each node in the cluster During installation, you are prompted to provide the public and virtual host name, unless you use a third party cluster software. In that case, the public host name information will be filled in. You are also prompted to identify which interfaces are public, private, or interfaces in use for another purpose, such as a network file system. If you use Grid Naming Service (GNS), then OUI displays the public and virtual host name addresses labeled as "AUTO" because they are configured automatically. If you use third-party clusterware, then use your vendor documentation to complete setup of your public and private domain addresses. When you enter the public node name, use the primary host name of each node. In other words, use the name displayed by the In addition: Provide a cluster name with the following characteristics: It must be globally unique throughout your host domain. It must be at least one character long and less than or equal to 15 characters long. It must consist of the same character set used for host names, in accordance with RFC 1123: Hyphens (-), and single-byte alphanumeric characters (a to z, A to Z, and 0 to 9). If you use third-party vendor clusterware, then Oracle recommends that you use the vendor cluster name. If you are not using Grid Naming Service (GNS), then determine a virtual host name for each node. A virtual host name is a public node name that is used to reroute client requests sent to the node if the node is down. Oracle Database uses VIPs for client-to-database connections, so the VIP address must be publicly accessible. Oracle recommends that you provide a name in the format hostname-vip. For example: Provide SCAN addresses for client access to the cluster. These addresses should be configured as round robin addresses on the domain name service (DNS). Oracle recommends that you supply three SCAN addresses. Note: For the local node only, OUI automatically fills in public and VIP fields. If your system uses vendor clusterware, then OUI may fill additional fields. Host names and virtual host names are not domain-qualified. If you provide a domain in the address field during installation, then OUI removes the domain from the address. Interfaces identified as private for private IP addresses should not be accessible as public interfaces. Using public interfaces for Cache Fusion can cause performance problems. Identify public and private interfaces. OUI configures public interfaces for use by public and virtual IP addresses, and configures private IP addresses on private interfaces. The private subnet that the private interfaces use must connect all the nodes you intend to have as cluster members. Obtain proxy realm authentication information if you have a proxy realm on your network During installation, OUI attempts to download updates. You are prompted to provide a proxy realm, and user authentication information to access the Internet through the proxy service. If you have a proxy realm configured, then be prepared to provide this information. If you do not have a proxy realm, then you can leave the proxy authentication fields blank. Identify shared storage for Oracle Clusterware files and prepare storage if necessary During installation, you are asked to provide paths for the following Oracle Clusterware files. These files must be shared across all nodes of the cluster, either on Oracle ASM, or on a supported file system: Voting disks are files that Oracle Clusterware uses to verify cluster node membership and status. Voting disk files must be owned by the user performing the installation ( Oracle Cluster Registry files (OCR) contain cluster and database configuration information for Oracle Clusterware. Before installation, OCR files must be owned by the user performing the installation ( If your file system does not have external storage redundancy, then Oracle recommends that you provide two additional locations for the OCR disk, and two additional locations for the voting disks, for a total of six partitions (three for OCR, and three for voting disks). Creating redundant storage locations protects the OCR and voting disk in the event of a failure. To completely protect your cluster, the storage locations given for the copies of the OCR and voting disks should have completely separate paths, controllers, and disks, so that no single point of failure is shared by storage locations. When you select to store the OCR on Oracle ASM, the default configuration is to create the OCR on one ASM disk group. If you create the disk group with normal or high redundancy, then the OCR is protected from physical disk failure. To protect the OCR from logical disk failure, create another ASM disk group after installation and add the OCR to the second diskgroup using the See Also: Ensure cron jobs do not run during installation If the installer is running when daily cron jobs start, then you may encounter unexplained installation problems if your cron job is performing cleanup, and temporary files are deleted before the installation is finished. Oracle recommends that you complete installation before daily cron jobs are run, or disable daily cron jobs that perform cleanup until after the installation is completed. Ensure that the Oracle home path you select for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home uses only ASCII characters This restriction includes installation owner user names, which are used as a default for some home paths, as well as other directory names you may select for paths. Unset Oracle environment variables. If you have set ORA_CRS_HOME as an environment variable, then unset it before starting an installation or upgrade. You should never use ORA_CRS_HOME as an environment variable. If you have had an existing installation on your system, and you are using the same user account to install this installation, then unset the following environment variables: ORA_CRS_HOME; ORACLE_HOME; ORA_NLS10; TNS_ADMIN Decide if you want to use the Software Updates option. OUI can install critical patch updates, system requirements updates (hardware, operating system parameters, and kernel packages) for supported operating systems, and other significant updates that can help to ensure your installation proceeds smoothly. Oracle recommends that you enable software updates during installation. If you choose to enable software updates, then during installation you must provide a valid My Oracle Support user name and password during installation, so that OUI can download the latest updates, or you must provide a path to the location of an software updates packages that you have downloaded previously. If you plan to run the installation in a secured data center, then you can download updates before starting the installation by starting OUI on a system that has Internet access in update download mode. To start OUI to download updates, enter the following command: Provide the My Oracle Support user name and password, and provide proxy settings if needed. After you download updates, transfer the update file to a directory on the server where you plan to run the installation. This section provides you with information about how to use the installer to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure. It contains the following sections: Complete the following steps to install grid infrastructure (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management) on your cluster. At any time during installation, if you have a question about what you are being asked to do, click the Help button on the OUI page. Change to the /Disk1 directory on the installation media, or where you have downloaded the installation binaries, and run the Select Typical or Advanced installation. Provide information or run scripts as Note: After you run Oracle Automatic Storage Management Configuration Assistant ( When you have verified that your Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation is completed successfully, you can either use it to maintain high availability for other applications, or you can install an Oracle database. If you intend to install Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) with Oracle RAC, then refer to Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit). See Also: During installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure, you are given the option either of providing cluster configuration information manually, or of using a cluster configuration file. A cluster configuration file is a text file that you can create before starting OUI, which provides OUI with cluster node addresses that it requires to configure the cluster. Oracle suggests that you consider using a cluster configuration file if you intend to perform repeated installations on a test cluster, or if you intend to perform an installation on many nodes. To create a cluster configuration file manually, start a text editor, and create a file that provides the name of the public and virtual IP addresses for each cluster member node, in the following format: For example: This section contains the following tasks: Note: A software-only installation consists of installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster on one node. If you use the Install Grid Infrastructure Software Only option during installation, then this installs the software binaries on the local node. To complete the installation for your cluster, you must perform the additional steps of configuring Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM, creating a clone of the local installation, deploying this clone on other nodes, and then adding the other nodes to the cluster. To perform a software-only installation: On the local node, verify that the cluster node meets installation requirements using the command Run the Complete a software-only installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure on the first node. When the software has been installed, run the For installations with Oracle RAC release 11.2.0.2 and later, proceed to step 6. For installations with Oracle RAC release 11.2.0.1, to relink Oracle Clusterware with the Oracle RAC option enabled, run commands similar to the following (in this example, the Grid home is The However, ignore the instruction to run the On each remaining node, verify that the cluster node meets installation requirements using the command Use Oracle Universal Installer as described in steps 1 through 4 to install the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software on every remaining node that you want to include in the cluster, and complete a software-only installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure on every node. Configure the cluster using the full OUI configuration wizard GUI as described in Section 4.3.2, "Configuring the Software Binaries," or configure the cluster using a response file as described in section Section 4.3.3, "Configuring the Software Binaries Using a Response File." Configure the software binaries by starting Oracle Grid Infrastructure configuration wizard in GUI mode, available in release 11.2.0.2 and later: Log in to a terminal as the Grid infrastructure installation owner, and change directory to Enter the following command: The configuration script starts OUI in Configuration Wizard mode. Provide information as needed for configuration. Each page shows the same user interface and performs the same validation checks that OUI normally does. However, instead of running an installation, The configuration wizard mode validates inputs and configures the installation on all cluster nodes. When you complete inputs, OUI shows you the Summary page, listing all inputs you have provided for the cluster. Verify that the summary has the correct information for your cluster, and click Install to start configuration of the local node. When configuration of the local node is complete, OUI copies the Oracle Grid Infrastructure configuration file to other cluster member nodes. When prompted, run root scripts. When you confirm that all root scripts are run, OUI checks the cluster configuration status, and starts other configuration tools as needed. When you install or copy Oracle Grid Infrastructure software on any node, you can defer configuration for a later time. This section provides the procedure for completing configuration after the software is installed or copied on nodes, using the configuration wizard utility ( See Also: To configure the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software binaries using a response file: As the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner ( Grid_home/crs/config/config.sh [-debug] [-silent -responseFile filename] For example: The configuration script starts OUI in Configuration Wizard mode. Each page shows the same user interface and performs the same validation checks that OUI normally does. However, instead of running an installation, The configuration wizard mode validates inputs and configures the installation on all cluster nodes. When you complete inputs, OUI shows you the Summary page, listing all inputs you have provided for the cluster. Verify that the summary has the correct information for your cluster, and click Install to start configuration of the local node. When configuration of the local node is complete, OUI copies the Oracle Grid Infrastructure configuration file to other cluster member nodes. When prompted, run root scripts. When you confirm that all root scripts are run, OUI checks the cluster configuration status, and starts other configuration tools as needed. The Oracle Berkeley DB embedded database installation that is included with Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster 11g release 2 (11.2.0.2) is only for use with the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation products. Refer to terms of the Berkeley DB license at the following URL for details: After installation, log in as crsctl check crs For example: If you installed the OCR and voting disk files on Oracle ASM, then use the following command syntax as the Grid Infrastructure installation owner to confirm that your Oracle ASM installation is running: srvctl status asm For example: Oracle ASM is running only if it is needed for Oracle Clusterware files. If you have not installed OCR and voting disks files on Oracle ASM, then the Oracle ASM instance should be down. Note: After installation, log in as crsctl check crs For example: This chapter describes how to complete the postinstallation tasks after you have installed the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software. This chapter contains the following topics: You must perform the following tasks after completing your installation: Note: Refer to the My Oracle Support Web site for required patch updates for your installation. Note: If you do not have Flash installed, then download the latest version of the Flash Player from the Adobe Web site: To download required patch updates: Use a Web browser to view the My Oracle Support Web site: Log in to My Oracle Support Web site. Note: On the main My Oracle Support page, click Patches & Updates. On the Patches & Update page, click Advanced Search. On the Advanced Search page, click the search icon next to the Product or Product Family field. In the Search and Select: Product Family field, select Database and Tools in the Search list field, enter RDBMS Server in the text field, and click Go. RDBMS Server appears in the Product or Product Family field. The current release appears in the Release field. Select your platform from the list in the Platform field, and at the bottom of the selection list, click Go. Any available patch updates appear under the Results heading. Click the patch number to download the patch. On the Patch Set page, click View README and read the page that appears. The README page contains information about the patch set and how to apply the patches to your installation. Return to the Patch Set page, click Download, and save the file on your system. Use the unzip utility provided with Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) to uncompress the Oracle patch updates that you downloaded from My Oracle Support. The unzip utility is located in the Refer to Appendix E for information about how to stop database processes in preparation for installing patches. Oracle recommends that you complete the following tasks as needed after installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure: Oracle recommends that you back up the Refer to the following guidelines only if the default semaphore parameter values are too low to accommodate all Oracle processes: Note: Set MAXUPROC to 16384. Set NCARGS to 128. During installation, by default you can create one disk group. If you plan to add an Oracle Database for a standalone server or an Oracle RAC database, then you should create the Fast Recovery Area for database files. The Fast Recovery Area is a unified storage location for all Oracle Database files related to recovery. Database administrators can define the DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST parameter to the path for the Fast Recovery Area to enable on-disk backups, and rapid recovery of data. Enabling rapid backups for recent data can reduce requests to system administrators to retrieve backup tapes for recovery operations. When you enable Fast Recovery in the Oracle recommends that you create a Fast Recovery Area disk group. Oracle Clusterware files and Oracle Database files can be placed on the same disk group, and you can also place Fast recovery files in the same disk group. However, Oracle recommends that you create a separate Fast Recovery disk group to reduce storage device contention. The Fast Recovery Area is enabled by setting DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST. The size of the Fast Recovery Area is set with DB _RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE. As a general rule, the larger the Fast Recovery Area, the more useful it becomes. For ease of use, Oracle recommends that you create a Fast Recovery Area disk group on storage devices that can contain at least three days of recovery information. Ideally, the Fast Recovery Area should be large enough to hold a copy of all of your data files and control files, the online redo logs, and the archived redo log files needed to recover your database using the data file backups kept under your retention policy. Multiple databases can use the same Fast Recovery Area. For example, assume you have created one Fast Recovery Area disk group on disks with 150 GB of storage, shared by three different databases. You can set the size of the Fast Recovery Area for each database depending on the importance of each database. For example, if database1 is your least important database, database 2 is of greater importance and database 3 is of greatest importance, then you can set different DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE settings for each database to meet your retention target for each database: 30 GB for database 1, 50 GB for database 2, and 70 GB for database 3. To create a Fast recovery file disk group: Navigate to the Grid home bin directory, and start OracleASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA). For example: ASMCA opens at the Disk Groups tab. Click Create to create a new disk group The Create Disk Groups window opens. In the Disk Group Name field, enter a descriptive name for the Fast Recovery Area group. For example: FRA. In the Redundancy section, select the level of redundancy you want to use. In the Select Member Disks field, select eligible disks to be added to the Fast Recovery Area, and click OK. The Diskgroup Creation window opens to inform you when disk group creation is complete. Click OK. Click Exit. Review the following sections for information about using older Oracle Database releases with 11g release 2 (11.2) Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations: General Restrictions for Using Older Oracle Database Versions Using ASMCA to Administer Disk Groups for Older Database Versions Pinning Cluster Nodes for Oracle Database Release 10.x or 11.x Enabling The Global Services Daemon (GSD) for Oracle Database Release 9.2 You can use Oracle Database release 9.2, release 10.x and release 11.1 with Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2). However, placing Oracle Database homes on Oracle ACFS that are prior to Oracle Database release 11.2 is not supported, because earlier releases are not designed to use Oracle ACFS. If you upgrade an existing version of Oracle Clusterware, then required configuration of existing databases is completed automatically. However, if you complete a new installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster, and then want to install a version of Oracle Database prior to 11.2, then you must complete additional manual configuration tasks. Note: For more information on recommended patches, refer to "Oracle Upgrade Companion," which is available through Note 785351.1 on My Oracle Support: You may also refer to Notes 756388.1 and 756671.1 for the current list of recommended patches for each release Use ASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA) to create and modify disk groups when you install older Oracle databases and Oracle RAC databases on Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations. Starting with 11g release 2, Oracle ASM is installed as part of an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, with Oracle Clusterware. You can no longer use Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) to perform administrative tasks on Oracle ASM. When Oracle Clusterware 11g release 11.2 is installed on a cluster with no previous Oracle software version, it configures Oracle Database 11g release 11.2 and later releases dynamically. However, dynamic configuration does not occur when you install an Oracle Database release 10.x or 11.1 on the cluster. Before installing 10.x or 11.1 Oracle Databases on an Oracle Clusterware 11g release 11.2 cluster you must establish a persistent configuration. Creating a persistent configuration for a node is called pinning a node. Note: To pin a node in preparation for installing or using an older Oracle Database version, use For example, to pin nodes To determine if a node is in a pinned or unpinned state, use To list all pinned nodes: For example: To list the state of a particular node: For example: See Also: By default, the Global Services daemon (GSD) is disabled. If you install Oracle Database 9i release 2 (9.2) on Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster 11g release 2 (11.2), then you must enable the GSD. Use the following commands to enable the GSD before you install Oracle Database release 9.2: To administer 11g release 2 local and scan listeners using the After installation, if you need to modify the Oracle Clusterware configuration, then you must unlock the Grid home. For example, if you want to apply a one-off patch, or if you want to modify an Oracle Exadata configuration to run IPC traffic over RDS on the interconnect instead of using the default UDP, then you must unlock the Grid home. Caution: Unlock the home using the following procedure: Change directory to the path Grid_home/crs/install, where Grid_home is the path to the Grid home, and unlock the Grid home using the command Change user to the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software owner, and relink binaries using the command syntax make -f Grid_home/lib/ins_rdbms.mk target, where Grid_home is the Grid home, and target is the binaries that you want to relink. For example, where the grid user is Note: Relock the Grid home and restart the cluster using the following command: Repeat steps 1 through 3 on each cluster member node. This appendix provides troubleshooting information for installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure. See Also: Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide This appendix contains the following topics: Interpreting CVU "Unknown" Output Messages Using Verbose Mode Interpreting CVU Messages About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Setup Performing Cluster Diagnostics During Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installations The following is a list of examples of types of errors that can occur during installation. It contains the following issues: Could not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/X11R6/bin/xdpyinfo Failed to connect to server, Connection refused by server, or Can't open display Nodes unavailable for selection from the OUI Node Selection screen PROT-8: Failed to import data from specified file to the cluster registry If you are logged in locally on the server console as The Oracle Grid Infrastructure alert.log file shows the following: You can verify this as the cause by checking $ xhost fully_qualified_remote_host_name For example: Then, enter the following commands, where Bourne, Bash, or Korn shell: To determine whether X Window applications display correctly on the local system, enter the following command: The X clock should appear on your monitor.If the X clock appears, then close the X clock and start Oracle Universal Installer again. Run the shell command Run the shell command As the If you run Cluster Verification Utility using the The node is down Common operating system command binaries required by Cluster Verification Utility are missing in the The user account starting Cluster Verification Utility does not have privileges to run common operating system commands on the node The node is missing an operating system patch, or a required package The node has exceeded the maximum number of processes or maximum number of open files, or there is a problem with IPC segments, such as shared memory or semaphores If the Cluster Verification Utility report indicates that your system fails to meet the requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, then use the topics in this section to correct the problem or problems indicated in the report, and run Cluster Verification Utility again. For each node listed as a failure node, review the installation owner user configuration to ensure that the user configuration is properly completed, and that SSH configuration is properly completed. The user that runs the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation must have permissions to create SSH connections. Oracle recommends that you use the SSH configuration option in OUI to configure SSH. You can use Cluster Verification Utility before installation if you configure SSH manually, or after installation, when SSH has been configured for installation. For example, to check user equivalency for the user account The output from this command should be the timestamp of the remote node identified by the value that you use for If you see a message similar to the following when entering the date command with SSH, then this is the probable cause of the user equivalence error: Enter yes, and then run Cluster Verification Utility to determine if the user equivalency error is resolved. If Note the following rules for modifying the Key entries have the syntax name=value Each key entry and the value assigned to the key defines one property only Lines beginning with the number sign (#) are comment lines, and are ignored Lines that do not follow the syntax name=value are ignored When you have changed the path configuration, run Cluster Verification Utility again. If Note: To stop the errors, remove all commands from the If you see messages about X11 forwarding, then complete the task Section 2.13.4, "Setting Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration" to resolve this issue. If you see errors similar to the following: These errors are produced if hidden files on the system (for example, See Also: The Oracle Grid Infrastructure alert log is the first place to look for serious errors. In the event of an error, it can contain path information to diagnostic logs that can provide specific information about the cause of errors. After installation, Oracle Grid Infrastructure posts alert messages when important events occur. For example, you might see alert messages from the Cluster Ready Services (CRS) daemon process when it starts, if it aborts, if the failover process fails, or if automatic restart of a CRS resource failed. Oracle Enterprise Manager monitors the Clusterware log file and posts an alert on the Cluster Home page if an error is detected. For example, if a voting disk is not available, a The location of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure log file is The following issues can occur on IBM AIX release 6.1: This issue is caused by AIX incorrectly reporting the operating system level. In this example, the value returned by If Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) does not display the Node Selection page, then perform clusterware diagnostics by running the In addition, use the following command syntax to check the integrity of the Cluster Manager: In the preceding syntax example, the variable Starting with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2 (11.2.0.3) and later, you can use the CVU healthcheck command option to check your Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database installations for their compliance with mandatory requirements and best practices guidelines, and to check to ensure that they are functioning properly. Use the following syntax to run the healthcheck command option: cluvfy comp healthcheck [-collect {cluster|database}] [-db db_unique_name] [-bestpractice|-mandatory] [-deviations] [-html] [-save [-savedir directory_path] For example: The options are: Use this flag to specify that you want to perform checks for Oracle Grid Infrastructure (cluster) or Oracle Database (database). If you do not use the collect flag with the healthcheck option, then cluvfy comp healthcheck performs checks for both Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database. Use this flag to specify checks on the database unique name that you enter after the CVU uses JDBC to connect to the database as the user A SQL script is included in CVU_home If you use the Use the Use the If you specify the If you do not specify the html flag, then the detailed report is generated in a text file. Use the If you use the If you use the flags If you plan to use multiple network interface cards (NICs) for the interconnect, and you do not configure them during installation or after installation with Redundant Interconnect Usage, then you should use a third party solution to aggregate the interfaces at the operating system level. Otherwise, the failure of a single NIC will affect the availability of the cluster node. If you install Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC, then they must use the same NIC or aggregated NIC cards for the interconnect. If you use aggregated NIC cards, then they must be on the same subnet. If you encounter errors, then carry out the following system checks: Verify with your network providers that they are using correct cables (length, type) and software on their switches. In some cases, to avoid bugs that cause disconnects under loads, or to support additional features such as Jumbo Frames, you may need a firmware upgrade on interconnect switches, or you may need newer NIC driver or firmware at the operating system level. Running without such fixes can cause later instabilities to Oracle RAC databases, even though the initial installation seems to work. Review VLAN configurations, duplex settings, and auto-negotiation in accordance with vendor and Oracle recommendations. If your installation reports errors related to the SCAN VIP addresses or listeners, then check the following items to make sure your network is configured correctly: Check the file Verify that there is a DNS entry for the SCAN, and that it resolves to three valid IP addresses. Use the command Use the Note: Ensure the SCAN VIP uses the same netmask that is used by the public interface. If you need additional assistance troubleshooting errors related to the SCAN, SCAN VIP or listeners, then refer to My Oracle Support. For example, the note with Doc ID 1373350.1 contains some of the most common issues for the SCAN VIPs and listeners. The following is a list of issues involving storage configuration: With Oracle Grid Infrastructure release 11.2 and later, if you remove a filesystem by mistake, or encounter another storage configuration issue that results in losing the Oracle Local Registry or otherwise corrupting a node, you can recover the node in one of two ways: Restore the node from an operating system level backup (preferred) Remove the node, and then add the node. With 11.2 and later clusters, profile information for is copied to the node, and the node is restored. The feature that enables cluster nodes to be removed and added again, so that they can be restored from the remaining nodes in the cluster, is called Grid Plug and Play (GPnP). Grid Plug and Play eliminates per-node configuration data and the need for explicit add and delete nodes steps. This allows a system administrator to take a template system image and run it on a new node with no further configuration. This removes many manual operations, reduces the opportunity for errors, and encourages configurations that can be changed easily. Removal of the per-node configuration makes the nodes easier to replace, because they do not need to contain individually-managed state. Grid Plug and Play reduces the cost of installing, configuring, and managing database nodes by making their per-node state disposable. It allows nodes to be easily replaced with regenerated state. Initiate recovery of a node using addnode syntax similar to the following, where If you are using Grid Naming Service (GNS): If you are not using GNS: Note that you require access to root to be able to run the root.sh script on the node you restore, to recreate OCR keys and to perform other configuration tasks. When you see prompts to overwrite your existing information in /usr/local/bin, accept the default (n): This chapter describes the storage configuration tasks that you must complete before you start the installer to install Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM), and that you must complete before adding an Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) installation to the cluster. This chapter contains the following topics: This section describes supported options for storing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster storage options. It contains the following sections: Overview of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC Storage Options General Storage Considerations for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC Using Logical Volume Managers with Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC See Also: There are two ways of storing Oracle Clusterware files: Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM): You can install Oracle Clusterware files (OCR and voting disks) in Oracle ASM diskgroups. Oracle ASM is the required database storage option for Typical installations, and for Standard Edition Oracle RAC installations. It is an integrated, high-performance database file system and disk manager for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Database files. It performs striping and mirroring of database files automatically. Only one Oracle ASM instance is permitted for each node regardless of the number of database instances on the node. A supported shared file system: Supported file systems include the following: General Parallel File System (GPFS): A cluster file system for AIX that provides concurrent file access A supported cluster file system. Note that if you intend to use a cluster file system for your data files, then you should create partitions large enough for the database files when you create partitions for Oracle Clusterware. See Also: Network File System (NFS): Note that if you intend to use NFS for your data files, then you should create partitions large enough for the database files when you create partitions for Oracle Grid Infrastructure. NFS mounts differ for software binaries, Oracle Clusterware files, and database files. Note: See Also: When upgrading your Oracle9i release 9.2 Oracle RAC environment to Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2), you are prompted to specify one or more voting disks during the Oracle Clusterware installation. You must specify a new location for the voting disk in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1). You cannot reuse the old Oracle9i release 9.2 quorum disk for this purpose. When you have determined your disk storage options, you must perform the following tasks in the order listed: 1: Configure shared storage for Oracle Clusterware files To use a file system (local or GPFS) for Oracle Clusterware files, refer to Shared File System Storage Configuration 2: Configure storage for Oracle Database files and recovery files To use a file system for database or recovery file storage, refer to Section 3.2, "Shared File System Storage Configuration", and ensure that in addition to the volumes you create for Oracle Clusterware files, you also create additional volumes with sizes sufficient to store database files. Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) provides a general purpose file system. You can place Oracle Database binaries on this system, but you cannot place Oracle data files or Oracle Clusterware files on Oracle ACFS. Note the following about Oracle ACFS: Oracle Restart does not support root-based Oracle Clusterware resources. For this reason, the following restrictions apply if you run Oracle ACFS on an Oracle Restart Configuration You must manually load and unload Oracle ACFS drivers. You must manually mount and unmount Oracle ACFS file systems, after the Oracle ASM instance is running You can place Oracle ACFS database home file systems into the Oracle ACFS mount registry, along with other registered Oracle ACFS file systems. You cannot put Oracle Clusterware binaries and files on Oracle ACFS. You cannot put Oracle Database files on Oracle ACFS. Oracle ACFS provides a general purpose file system for other files. Note: The AIX version must be AIX 7.1, or on AIX 6.1 TL4 SP2, or later updates to AIX 6.1 on PPC64. The system must be running in the RBAC mode, which is the default. The owner of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation must be a local user. For all installations, you must choose the storage option to use for Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM), and Oracle Real Application Clusters databases (Oracle RAC). To enable automated backups during the installation, you must also choose the storage option to use for recovery files (the Fast Recovery Area). You do not have to use the same storage option for each file type. Oracle Clusterware voting disks are used to monitor cluster node status, and Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) files contain configuration information about the cluster. You can place voting disks and OCR files either in an ASM diskgroup, or on a cluster file system or shared network file system. Storage must be shared; any node that does not have access to an absolute majority of voting disks (more than half) will be restarted. Use the following guidelines when choosing the storage options to use for each file type: You can choose any combination of the supported storage options for each file type provided that you satisfy all requirements listed for the chosen storage options. Oracle recommends that you choose Oracle ASM as the storage option for database and recovery files. For Standard Edition Oracle RAC installations, Oracle ASM is the only supported storage option for database or recovery files. If you intend to use Oracle ASM with Oracle RAC, and you are configuring a new Oracle ASM instance, then your system must meet the following conditions: All nodes on the cluster have Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM 11g release 2 (11.2) installed as part of an Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster installation. Any existing Oracle ASM instance on any node in the cluster is shut down. Raw disks are supported only when upgrading an existing installation using the disks already configured. On new installations, using disks is not supported by Oracle Automatic Storage Management Configuration Assistant (ASMCA) or Oracle Universal Installer (OUI), but is supported by the software if you perform manual configuration. See Also: If you do not have a storage option that provides external file redundancy, then you must configure at least three voting disk areas to provide voting disk redundancy. During Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, you can create one disk group. After the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, you can create additional disk groups using ASMCA, SQL*Plus, or ASMCMD. Note that with Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) and later releases, Oracle Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) does not have the functionality to create disk groups for Oracle ASM. If you install Oracle Database or Oracle RAC after you install Oracle Grid Infrastructure, then you can either use the same disk group for database files, OCR, and voting disk files, or you can use different disk groups. If you create multiple disk groups before installing Oracle RAC or before creating a database, then you can decide to do one of the following: Place the data files in the same disk group as the Oracle Clusterware files. Use the same Oracle ASM disk group for data files and recovery files. Use different disk groups for each file type. If you create only one disk group for storage, then the OCR and voting disk files, database files, and recovery files are contained in the one disk group. If you create multiple disk groups for storage, then you can choose to place files in different disk groups. Note: Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC only support cluster-aware volume managers. This means, the volume manager that you want to use comes with a certain vendor cluster solution. To confirm that a volume manager you want to use is supported, look under the Certifications tab on My Oracle Support whether the associated cluster solution is certified for Oracle RAC. My Oracle Support is available at the following URL: The following table shows the storage options supported for storing Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC files. Table 3-1 Supported Storage Options for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC Use the following guidelines when choosing storage options: You can choose any combination of the supported storage options for each file type provided that you satisfy all requirements listed for the chosen storage options. You can use Oracle ASM 11g release 2 (11.2) and later to store Oracle Clusterware files. You cannot use prior Oracle ASM releases to do this. If you do not have a storage option that provides external file redundancy, then you must configure at least three voting disk locations and at least three Oracle Cluster Registry locations to provide redundancy. When you have determined your disk storage options, configure shared storage: To use a file system, refer to Section 3.2, "Shared File System Storage Configuration." To use Oracle Automatic Storage Management, refer to Section 3.3, "Oracle Automatic Storage Management Storage Configuration." The installer does not suggest a default location for the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) or the Oracle Clusterware voting disk. If you choose to create these files on a file system, then review the following sections to complete storage requirements for Oracle Clusterware files: Deciding to Use a Cluster File System for Oracle Clusterware Files Enabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Manager Control of NFS Configuring New Oracle Clusterware Volume Group Raw Logical Volumes Activating the Volume Group in Concurrent Mode on All Cluster Nodes Creating Directories for Oracle Clusterware Files on Shared File Systems Creating Directories for Oracle Database Files on Shared File Systems Disabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Management Control of NFS To use a shared file system for Oracle Clusterware, Oracle ASM, and Oracle RAC, the file system must comply with the following requirements: To use a cluster file system, it must be a supported cluster file system. Refer to My Oracle Support ( To use an NFS file system, it must be on a supported NAS device. Log in to My Oracle Support, and click the Certification tab to find the most current information about supported NAS devices: If you choose to place your Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) files on a shared file system, then Oracle recommends that one of the following is true: The disks used for the file system are on a highly available storage device, (for example, a RAID device). At least two file systems are mounted on separate disks, and use the features of Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2) to provide redundancy for the OCR. If you choose to place your database files on a shared file system, then one of the following should be true: The user account with which you perform the installation ( Use Table 3-2 and Table 3-3 to determine the minimum size for shared file systems: Table 3-2 Oracle Clusterware Shared File System Volume Size Requirements Voting disks with external redundancy 3 At least 300 MB for each voting disk volume. Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) with external redundancy 1 At least 300 MB for each OCR volume Oracle Clusterware files (OCR and voting disks) with redundancy provided by Oracle software. 1 At least 300 MB for each OCR volume At least 300 MB for each voting disk volume Table 3-3 Oracle RAC Shared File System Volume Size Requirements Oracle Database files 1 At least 1.5 GB for each volume Recovery files Note: Recovery files must be on a different volume than database files 1 At least 2 GB for each volume In Table 3-2 and Table 3-3, the total required volume size is cumulative. For example, to store all Oracle Clusterware files on the shared file system with normal redundancy, you should have at least 2 GB of storage available over a minimum of three volumes (three separate volume locations for the OCR and two OCR mirrors, and one voting disk on each volume). You should have a minimum of three physical disks, each at least 500 MB, to ensure that voting disks and OCR files are on separate physical disks. If you add Oracle RAC using one volume for database files and one volume for recovery files, then you should have at least 3.5 GB available storage over two volumes, and at least 5.5 GB available total for all volumes. Note: For new installations, Oracle recommends that you use Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) to store voting disk and OCR files. Direct NFS is an alternative to using kernel-managed NFS. This section contains the following information about Direct NFS: With Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2), instead of using the operating system kernel NFS client, you can configure Oracle Database to access NFS V3 servers directly using an Oracle internal Direct NFS client. To enable Oracle Database to use Direct NFS, the NFS file systems must be mounted and available over regular NFS mounts before you start installation. Direct NFS manages settings after installation. You should still set the kernel mount options as a backup, but for normal operation, Direct NFS will manage NFS mounts. Refer to your vendor documentation to complete NFS configuration and mounting. Some NFS file servers require NFS clients to connect using reserved ports. If your filer is running with reserved port checking, then you must disable it for Direct NFS to operate. To disable reserved port checking, consult your NFS file server documentation. Note: If you use Direct NFS, then you can choose to use a new file specific for Oracle data file management, With shared Oracle homes, when the When the See Also: In all cases, mount points must be mounted by the kernel NFS system, even when they are being served using Direct NFS. Direct NFS determines mount point settings to NFS storage devices based on the configurations in Direct NFS searches for mount entries in the following order: Direct NFS uses the first matching entry found. Oracle Database is not shipped with Direct NFS enabled by default. To enable Direct NFS, complete the following steps: Change the directory to Enter the following command: Note: If Oracle Database uses Direct NFS mount points configured using If Oracle Database cannot open an NFS server using Direct NFS, then Oracle Database uses the platform operating system kernel NFS client. In this case, the kernel NFS mount options must be set up as defined in Section 3.2.8, "Configuring Raw Logical Volumes for Oracle Clusterware." Additionally, an informational message is logged into the Oracle alert and trace files indicating that Direct NFS could not be established. Section 3.1.6, "Supported Storage Options" lists the file types that are supported by Direct NFS. The Oracle files resident on the NFS server that are served by the Direct NFS Client are also accessible through the operating system kernel NFS client. See Also: Direct NFS can use up to four network paths defined in the Use the following SQL*Plus views for managing Direct NFS in a cluster environment: gv$dnfs_servers: Shows a table of servers accessed using Direct NFS. gv$dnfs_files: Shows a table of files currently open using Direct NFS. gv$dnfs_channels: Shows a table of open network paths (or channels) to servers for which Direct NFS is providing files. gv$dnfs_stats: Shows a table of performance statistics for Direct NFS. Note: Network-attached storage (NAS) systems use NFS to access data. You can store data files on a supported NFS system. NFS file systems must be mounted and available over NFS mounts before you start installation. Refer to your vendor documentation to complete NFS configuration and mounting. Be aware that the performance of Oracle software and databases stored on NAS devices depends on the performance of the network connection between the Oracle server and the NAS device. For this reason, Oracle recommends that you connect the server to the NAS device using a private dedicated network connection, which should be Gigabit Ethernet or better. If you are using NFS for the Grid home or Oracle RAC home, then you must set up the NFS mounts on the storage so that they allow If you are using NFS, then you must set the values for the NFS buffer size parameters The NFS client-side mount options for Oracle Clusterware files (OCR and voting disk files) are: The NFS client-side mount options for Oracle Database datafiles are: Update the Note that mount point options are different for Oracle software binaries, Oracle Clusterware files (OCR and voting disks), and data files. If you want to create a mount point for binaries only, then enter the following line for a binaries mount point: On NFS, you can obtain If the domain or DNS is secure so that no unauthorized system can obtain an IP address on it, then you can grant For example: Oracle recommends that you use a secure DNS or domain, and grant If you use Grid Naming Service (GNS), then the subdomain allocated for resolution by GNS within the cluster is a secure domain. Any server without a correctly signed Grid Plug and Play (GPnP) profile cannot join the cluster, so an unauthorized system cannot obtain or use names inside the GNS subdomain. Caution: After changing See Also: Note: Complete the following procedure to enable Direct NFS: Create an Server: The NFS server name. Local: Up to four paths on the database host, specified by IP address or by name, as displayed using the Path: Up to four network paths to the NFS server, specified either by IP address, or by name, as displayed using the Export: The exported path from the NFS server. Mount: The corresponding local mount point for the exported volume. Mnt_timeout: Specifies (in seconds) the time Direct NFS client should wait for a successful mount before timing out. This parameter is optional. The default timeout is 10 minutes ( Dontroute: Specifies that outgoing messages should not be routed by the operating system, but instead sent using the IP address to which they are bound. The examples that follow show three possible NFS server entries in Example 3-1 Using Local and Path NFS Server Entries The following example uses both local and path. Since they are in different subnets, we do not have to specify Example 3-2 Using Local and Path in the Same Subnet, with dontroute The following example shows local and path in the same subnet. Example 3-3 Using Names in Place of IP Addresses, with Multiple Exports By default, Direct NFS is installed in a disabled state. To enable Direct NFS, complete the following steps on each node. If you use a shared Grid home for the cluster, then complete the following steps in the shared Grid home: Log in as the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner. Change directory to Enter the following commands: This section contains the following topics: See Also: Overview of Requirements for Using HACMP with Oracle Clusterware Upgrading an Existing Oracle Clusterware and HACMP Installation You must define one Multi-node Disk Heartbeat (MNDHB) network for each Oracle Clusterware voting disk. Each MNDHB and voting disk pair must be located on a single hard disk, separate from the other pairs. You must also configure MNDHB so that the node is halted if access is lost to a quorum of the MNDHB networks in the enhanced concurrent volume group. To reduce the likelihood of a cluster partition, IBM recommends that HACMP is deployed with multiple IP networks and at least one non-IP network. The non-IP networks can be implemented using RS232 or disk heart-beating. For systems using Oracle RAC and HACMP enhanced concurrent resources (enhanced concurrent logical volumes) for database storage, you must configure MNDHB networks. Install, configure and have HACMP running before installing Oracle Clusterware. For an Oracle RAC configuration, do not use HACMP for IP failovers on the Oracle RAC network interfaces (public, VIP or private). These network interfaces should not be configured to use HACMP IP failover, as Oracle Clusterware manages VIP failovers for Oracle RAC. The Oracle RAC network interfaces are bound to individual nodes and Oracle RAC instances. Problems can occur with Oracle Clusterware if HACMP reconfigures IP addresses over different interfaces, or fails over addresses across nodes. You only can use HACMP for failover of IP address on Oracle RAC nodes if Oracle RAC does not use these addresses. Complete the following tasks, replacing each term in italics with the appropriate response for your system, or carrying out the action described and entering the appropriate response for your image: Start HACMP. Enter the following command to ensure that the HACMP If the daemon is not running, then start it using the following command: Ensure that your versions of HACMP and AIX meet the system requirements listed in Section 2.7, "Identifying the Software Requirements". Create HACMP cluster and add the Oracle Clusterware nodes. For example: Create an HACMP cluster node for each Oracle Clusterware node. For example: Create HACMP Ethernet heartbeat networks. The HACMP configuration requires network definitions. Select NO for the IP address takeover for these networks, since they are used by Oracle Clusterware. Create at least two network definitions: one for the Oracle public interface and a second one for the Oracle private (cluster interconnect) network. Additional Ethernet heartbeat networks can be added if desired. For example: For each of the networks added in the previous step, define all of the IP names for each Oracle Clusterware node associated with that network, including the public, private and VIP names for each Oracle Clusterware node. For example: Create an HACMP resource group for the enhanced concurrent volume group resource with the following options: Create an AIX enhanced concurrent volume group (Big VG, or Scalable VG) using either the command In the following example, where you see default, accept the default response: Under "Change/Show Resources for a Resource Group (standard)", add the concurrent volume group to the resource group added in the preceding steps. For example: Using the following command, ensure that one MNDHB network is defined for each Oracle Clusterware voting disk. Each MNDHB and voting disk pair must be co llocated on a single hard disk, separate from the other pairs. The MNDHB network and Voting Disks exist on shared logical volumes in an enhanced concurrent logical volume managed by HACMP as an enhanced concurrent resource. For each of the hard disks in the VG created in step 6 on which you want to place a voting disk logical volume (LV), create a MNDHB LV. Note: Configure MNDHB so that the node is halted if access is lost to a quorum of the MNDHB networks in the enhanced concurrent volume group. For example: Verify and Synchronize HACMP configuration. For example: Enter Yes if prompted: "Would you like to import shared VG: ccvg, in resource group my_resource_group onto node: mynode to node: racha702 [Yes / No]:" Add the Add the HACMP cluster node IP names to the file Complete the following procedure: Back up all databases, and back up the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) Shut down on all nodes all Oracle RAC databases, all node applications, and Oracle Clusterware. Enter the following command to disable Oracle Clusterware from starting when nodes are restarted: Shut down HACMP on all nodes. Install HACMP APAR IZ01809, following the directions in the README included with that APAR. Determine if the existing voting disk LVs are already on separate hard disks, and if each of these disks have sufficient space (at least 256 MB for the MNDHB LVs. If this is true, then create a MNDHB LV on each of the hard disks. If this is not true, then create new MNDHB LVs and new voting disk LVs, located on separate hard disks using the following command, responding to the sections in italics with the appropriate information for your system: Verify and Synchronize HACMP configuration. Start HACMP on all nodes. If you added new LVs for voting disks in step 5, then replace each of the existing voting disks with the new ones. Enter the following command to re-enable Oracle Clusterware: Start Oracle Clusterware on all nodes, and verify that all resources start correctly. Note: This section describes how to configure raw logical volumes for Oracle Clusterware and database file storage. The procedures in this section describe how to create a new volume group that contains the logical volumes required for both types of files. Before you continue, review the following guidelines which contain important information about using volume groups with this release of Oracle RAC: You must use concurrent-capable volume groups for Oracle Clusterware. The Oracle Clusterware files require less than 560 MB of disk space, with external redundancy. To make efficient use of the disk space in a volume group, Oracle recommends that you use the same volume group for the logical volumes for both the Oracle Clusterware files and the database files. If you are upgrading an existing Oracle9i release 2 Oracle RAC installation that uses raw logical volumes, then you can use the existing SRVM configuration repository logical volume for the OCR and create a new logical volume in the same volume group for the Oracle Clusterware voting disk. However, you must remove this volume group from the HACMP concurrent resource group that activates it before you install Oracle Clusterware. See Also: Note: You must use a HACMP concurrent resource group to activate new or existing volume groups that contain only database files (not Oracle Clusterware files). See Also: All volume groups that you intend to use for Oracle Clusterware must be activated in concurrent mode before you start the installation. The procedures in this section describe how to create basic volumes groups and volumes. If you want to configure more complex volumes, (using mirroring, for example), then use this section in conjunction with the HACMP documentation. To create the required raw logical volumes in the new Oracle Clusterware volume group: If you prefer, you can also use the command The following example shows the command used to create a logical volume for the Change the owner, group, and permissions on the character device files associated with the logical volumes that you created, as follows: Note: To create a volume group for the Oracle Database files: If necessary, install the shared disks that you intend to use. To ensure that the disks are available, enter the following command on every node: The output from this command is similar to the following: If a disk is not listed as available on any node, then enter the following command to configure the new disks: Enter the following command on any node to identify the device names and any associated volume group for each disk: The output from this command is similar to the following: For each disk, this command shows: The disk device name Either the 16 character physical volume identifier (PVID) if the disk has one, or Either the volume group to which the disk belongs, or The disks that you want to use may have a PVID, but they must not belong to existing volume groups. If a disk that you want to use for the volume group does not have a PVID, then enter a command similar to the following to assign one to it: To identify used device major numbers, enter the following command on each node of the cluster: This command displays information about all configured devices, similar to the following: In this example, 45 is the major number of the Identify an appropriate major number that is unused on all nodes in the cluster. To create a volume group, enter a command similar to the following, or use SMIT ( The following table describes the options and variables used in this example. Refer to the Note: If you are using SMIT, then choose yes for this field. Note: If you are using SMIT, then choose no for this field. Note: If you are using SMIT, then choose yes for this field. Enter a command similar to the following to vary on the volume group that you created: To create a volume group for the Oracle Clusterware files: If necessary, install the shared disks that you intend to use. To ensure that the disks are available, enter the following command on every node: The output from this command is similar to the following: If a disk is not listed as available on any node, then enter the following command to configure the new disks: Enter the following command on any node to identify the device names and any associated volume group for each disk: The output from this command is similar to the following: For each disk, this command shows: The disk device name Either the 16 character physical volume identifier (PVID) if the disk has one, or Either the volume group to which the disk belongs, or The disks that you want to use may have a PVID, but they must not belong to existing volume groups. If a disk that you want to use for the volume group does not have a PVID, then enter a command similar to the following to assign one to it: To identify used device major numbers, enter the following command on each node of the cluster: This command displays information about all configured devices, similar to the following: In this example, 45 is the major number of the Identify an appropriate major number that is unused on all nodes in the cluster. To create a volume group, enter a command similar to the following, or use SMIT ( The following table describes the options and variables used in this example. Refer to the Note: If you are using SMIT, then choose yes for this field. Note: If you are using SMIT, then choose no for this field. Note: If you are using SMIT, then choose yes for this field. Enter a command similar to the following to vary on the volume group that you created: To make the volume group available to all nodes in the cluster, you must import it on each node, as follows: Because the physical volume names may be different on the other nodes, enter the following command to determine the PVID of the physical volumes used by the volume group: Note the PVIDs of the physical devices used by the volume group. To vary off the volume group that you want to use, enter a command similar to the following on the node where you created it: On each cluster node, complete the following steps: Enter the following command to determine the physical volume names associated with the PVIDs you noted previously: On each node of the cluster, enter commands similar to the following to import the volume group definitions: In this example, For example, to import the definition of the Change the owner, group, and permissions on the character device files associated with the logical volumes you created, as follows: Enter the following command to ensure that the volume group will not be activated by the operating system when the node starts: To activate the volume group in concurrent mode on all cluster nodes, enter the following command on each node: Use the following instructions to create directories for Oracle Clusterware files. You can also configure shared file systems for the Oracle Database and recovery files. Note: To create directories for the Oracle Clusterware files on separate file systems from the Oracle base directory, follow these steps: If necessary, configure the shared file systems that you want to use and mount them on each node. Note: Use the From the display, identify the file systems that you want to use: A single file system with at least 1.5 GB of free disk space. Two or more file systems with at least 1.5 GB of free disk space in total. If you are using the same file system for more than one type of file, then add the disk space requirements for each type to determine the total disk space requirement. Note the names of the mount point directories for the file systems that you identified. If the user performing installation has permissions to create directories on the storage location where you plan to install Oracle Clusterware, then OUI creates the Oracle Clusterware file directory. If necessary, configure the shared file systems to use and mount them on each node. Note: Use the From the display, identify the file systems to use. Choose a file system with a minimum of 600 MB of free disk space (one OCR and one voting disk, with external redundancy). If you are using the same file system for multiple file types, then add the disk space requirements for each type to determine the total disk space requirement. Note: Note the names of the mount point directories for the file systems that you identified. If the user performing installation (typically, If the user performing installation does not have write access, then you must create these directories manually using commands similar to the following to create the recommended subdirectories in each of the mount point directories and set the appropriate owner, group, and permissions on the directory. For example, where the user is Note: When you have completed creating subdirectories in each of the mount point directories, and set the appropriate owner, group, and permissions, you have completed GPFS configuration. Use the following instructions to create directories for shared file systems for Oracle Database and recovery files (for example, for an Oracle RAC database). If necessary, configure the shared file systems and mount them on each node. Note: Use the From the display, identify the file systems: A single file system with at least 1.5 GB of free disk space. Two or more file systems with at least 1.5 GB of free disk space in total. If you are using the same file system for multiple file types, then add the disk space requirements for each type to determine the total disk space requirement. Note the names of the mount point directories for the file systems that you identified. If the user performing installation (typically, If the user performing installation does not have write access, then you must create these directories manually using commands similar to the following to create the recommended subdirectories in each of the mount point directories and set the appropriate owner, group, and permissions on them: Database file directory: Recovery file directory (Fast Recovery Area): By making members of the When you have completed creating subdirectories in each of the mount point directories, and set the appropriate owner, group, and permissions, you have completed NFS configuration for Oracle Database shared storage. Complete the following steps to disable the Direct NFS client: Log in as the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner, and disable the Direct NFS client using the following commands, where Enter these commands on each node in the cluster, or on the shared Grid home if you are using a shared home for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation. Remove the Note: Review the following sections to configure storage for Oracle Automatic Storage Management: This section describes how to configure storage for use with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM). To identify the storage requirements for using Oracle ASM, you must determine how many devices and the amount of free disk space that you require. To complete this task, follow these steps: Determine whether you want to use Oracle ASM for Oracle Clusterware files (OCR and voting disks), Oracle Database files, recovery files, or all files except for Oracle Clusterware or Oracle Database binaries. Oracle Database files include data files, control files, redo log files, the server parameter file, and the password file. Note: If you choose to enable automated backups and you do not have a shared file system available, then you must choose Oracle ASM for recovery file storage. If you enable automated backups during the installation, then you can select Oracle ASM as the storage mechanism for recovery files by specifying an Oracle Automatic Storage Management disk group for the Fast Recovery Area. If you select a noninteractive installation mode, then by default it creates one disk group and stores the OCR and voting disk files there. If you want to have any other disk groups for use in a subsequent database install, then you can choose interactive mode, or run ASMCA (or a command line tool) to create the appropriate disk groups before starting the database install. Choose the Oracle ASM redundancy level to use for the Oracle ASM disk group. The redundancy level that you choose for the Oracle ASM disk group determines how Oracle ASM mirrors files in the disk group and determines the number of disks and amount of free disk space that you require, as follows: External redundancy An external redundancy disk group requires a minimum of one disk device. The effective disk space in an external redundancy disk group is the sum of the disk space in all of its devices. For Oracle Clusterware files, External redundancy disk groups provide 1 voting disk file, and 1 OCR, with no copies. You must use an external technology to provide mirroring for high availability. Because Oracle ASM does not mirror data in an external redundancy disk group, Oracle recommends that you use external redundancy with storage devices such as RAID, or other similar devices that provide their own data protection mechanisms. Normal redundancy In a normal redundancy disk group, to increase performance and reliability, Oracle ASM by default uses two-way mirroring. A normal redundancy disk group requires a minimum of two disk devices (or two failure groups). The effective disk space in a normal redundancy disk group is half the sum of the disk space in all of its devices. For Oracle Clusterware files, Normal redundancy disk groups provide 3 voting disk files, 1 OCR and 2 copies (one primary and one secondary mirror). With normal redundancy, the cluster can survive the loss of one failure group. For most installations, Oracle recommends that you select normal redundancy. High redundancy In a high redundancy disk group, Oracle ASM uses three-way mirroring to increase performance and provide the highest level of reliability. A high redundancy disk group requires a minimum of three disk devices (or three failure groups). The effective disk space in a high redundancy disk group is one-third the sum of the disk space in all of its devices. For Oracle Clusterware files, High redundancy disk groups provide 5 voting disk files, 1 OCR and 3 copies (one primary and two secondary mirrors). With high redundancy, the cluster can survive the loss of two failure groups. While high redundancy disk groups do provide a high level of data protection, you should consider the greater cost of additional storage devices before deciding to select high redundancy disk groups. Determine the total amount of disk space that you require for Oracle Clusterware files, and for the database files and recovery files. Use Table 3-4 and Table 3-5 to determine the minimum number of disks and the minimum disk space requirements for installing Oracle Clusterware files, and installing the starter database, where you have voting disks in a separate disk group: Table 3-4 Total Oracle Clusterware Storage Space Required by Redundancy Type External 1 300 MB 600 MB 900 MB Normal 3 600 MB 900 MB 1.5 GBFoot 1 High 5 900 MB 1.5 GB 2.4 GB Footnote 1 If you create a diskgroup during installation, then it must be at least 2 GB. Note: If you create a disk group as part of the installation in order to install the OCR and voting disk files, then the installer requires that you create these files on a disk group with at least 2 GB of available space. A quorum failure group is a special type of failure group and disks in these failure groups do not contain user data. A quorum failure group is not considered when determining redundancy requirements in respect to storing user data. However, a quorum failure group counts when mounting a disk group. For Oracle Clusterware installations, you must also add additional disk space for the Oracle ASM metadata. You can use the following formula to calculate the additional disk space requirements (in MB) for OCR and voting disk files, and the Oracle ASM metadata: total = [2 * ausize * disks] + [redundancy * (ausize * (nodes * (clients + 1) + 30) + (64 * nodes) + 533)] Where: redundancy = Number of mirrors: external = 1, normal = 2, high = 3. ausize = Metadata AU size in megabytes. nodes = Number of nodes in cluster. clients - Number of database instances for each node. disks - Number of disks in disk group. For example, for a four-node Oracle RAC installation, using three disks in a normal redundancy disk group, you require an additional X MB of space: [2 * 1 * 3] + [2 * (1 * (4 * (4 + 1)+ 30)+ (64 * 4)+ 533)] = 1684 MB To ensure high availability of Oracle Clusterware files on Oracle ASM, you need to have at least 2 GB of disk space for Oracle Clusterware files in three separate failure groups, with at least three physical disks. Each disk must have at least 1 GB of capacity to ensure that there is sufficient space to create Oracle Clusterware files. Optionally, identify failure groups for the Oracle ASM disk group devices. If you intend to use a normal or high redundancy disk group, then you can further protect your database against hardware failure by associating a set of disk devices in a custom failure group. By default, each device comprises its own failure group. However, if two disk devices in a normal redundancy disk group are attached to the same SCSI controller, then the disk group becomes unavailable if the controller fails. The controller in this example is a single point of failure. To protect against failures of this type, you could use two SCSI controllers, each with two disks, and define a failure group for the disks attached to each controller. This configuration would enable the disk group to tolerate the failure of one SCSI controller. Note: If you define custom failure groups, then for failure groups containing database files only, you must specify a minimum of two failure groups for normal redundancy disk groups and three failure groups for high redundancy disk groups. For failure groups containing database files and clusterware files, including voting disks, you must specify a minimum of three failure groups for normal redundancy disk groups, and five failure groups for high redundancy disk groups. Disk groups containing voting files must have at least 3 failure groups for normal redundancy or at least 5 failure groups for high redundancy. Otherwise, the minimum is 2 and 3 respectively. The minimum number of failure groups applies whether or not they are custom failure groups. If you are sure that a suitable disk group does not exist on the system, then install or identify appropriate disk devices to add to a new disk group. Use the following guidelines when identifying appropriate disk devices: All of the devices in an Oracle ASM disk group should be the same size and have the same performance characteristics. Do not specify multiple partitions on a single physical disk as a disk group device. Oracle ASM expects each disk group device to be on a separate physical disk. Although you can specify a logical volume as a device in an Oracle ASM disk group, Oracle does not recommend their use because it adds a layer of complexity that is unnecessary with Oracle ASM. In addition, Oracle RAC requires a cluster logical volume manager in case you decide to use a logical volume with Oracle ASM and Oracle RAC. Oracle recommends that if you choose to use a logical volume manager, then use the logical volume manager to represent a single LUN without striping or mirroring, so that you can minimize the impact of the additional storage layer. If you have a certified NAS storage device, then you can create zero-padded files in an NFS mounted directory and use those files as disk devices in an Oracle ASM disk group. To create these files, follow these steps: If necessary, create an exported directory for the disk group files on the NAS device. Refer to the NAS device documentation for more information about completing this step. Switch user to Create a mount point directory on the local system. For example: To ensure that the NFS file system is mounted when the system restarts, add an entry for the file system in the mount file See Also: For more information about editing the mount file for the operating system, refer to the Enter a command similar to the following to mount the NFS file system on the local system: Choose a name for the disk group to create. For example: Create a directory for the files on the NFS file system, using the disk group name as the directory name. For example: Use commands similar to the following to create the required number of zero-padded files in this directory: This example creates 1 GB files on the NFS file system. You must create one, two, or three files respectively to create an external, normal, or high redundancy disk group. Enter commands similar to the following to change the owner, group, and permissions on the directory and files that you created, where the installation owner is If you plan to install Oracle RAC or a standalone Oracle Database, then during installation, edit the Oracle ASM disk discovery string to specify a regular expression that matches the file names you created. For example: Note: Select from the following choices to store either database or recovery files in an existing Oracle ASM disk group, depending on installation method: If you select an installation method that runs Database Configuration Assistant in interactive mode, then you can decide whether you want to create a disk group, or to use an existing one. The same choice is available to you if you use Database Configuration Assistant after the installation to create a database. If you select an installation method that runs Database Configuration Assistant in noninteractive mode, then you must choose an existing disk group for the new database; you cannot create a disk group. However, you can add disk devices to an existing disk group if it has insufficient free space for your requirements. Note: To determine if an existing Oracle ASM disk group exists, or to determine if there is sufficient disk space in a disk group, you can use the Oracle ASM command line tool ( View the contents of the If an Oracle ASM instance is configured on the system, then the In this example, Set the Connect to the Oracle ASM instance and start the instance if necessary: Enter one of the following commands to view the existing disk groups, their redundancy level, and the amount of free disk space in each one: or: From the output, identify a disk group with the appropriate redundancy level and note the free space that it contains. If necessary, install or identify the additional disk devices required to meet the storage requirements listed in the previous section. Note: You can configure raw disks for use as Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) disk groups. To use Oracle ASM with raw disks, you must create sufficient partitions for your data files, and then bind the partitions to raw disks. Make a list of the raw disk names you create for the data files, and have the list available during database installation. In the following procedure, you are directed to set physical volume IDs (PVIDs) for raw disks. Oracle recommends that you complete the entire procedure, even if you are certain that you do not have PVIDs configured on your system, to prevent the possibility of configuration issues. Note: Physical disk paths have path names similar to the following: Use the following procedure to configure disks: If necessary, install the disks that you intend to use for the disk group and restart the system. Identify or create the disks that you want to include in the Oracle ASM disk group. As the This command displays information similar to the following for each disk device that is not configured in a volume group: In this example, If a disk device that you want to use does not have a PVID, then enter a command similar to the following to assign one to it, where Note: On each of the other nodes, enter a command similar to the following to identify the device name associated with each PVID on that node: The output from this command should be similar to the following: In this example, the device name associated with the disk device ( If the device names are the same on all nodes, then enter commands similar to the following on all nodes to change the owner, group, and permissions on the character raw device files for the disk devices where To enable simultaneous access to a disk device from multiple nodes, you must set the appropriate Object Data Manager (ODM) attribute, depending on the type of reserve attribute used by your disks. The following section describes how to perform this task using hdisk logical names. Refer to your operating system documentation to find logical device names. To determine the reserve setting your disks use, enter the following command, where n is the hdisk device number: The response is either a If necessary, change the setting with the For example, to change a setting for the device To verify that the setting is correct on all disk devices, enter the following command: Enter commands similar to the following on any node to clear the PVID from each disk device that you want to use: When you are installing Oracle Clusterware, you must enter the paths to the appropriate device files when prompted for the path of the OCR and Oracle Clusterware voting disk. For example: Review the following sections to configure Oracle Automatic Storage Management storage for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Database Files: The following section describes how to identify existing disk groups and determine the free disk space that they contain. Optionally, identify failure groups for the Oracle Automatic Storage Management disk group devices. If you intend to use a normal or high redundancy disk group, then you can further protect your database against hardware failure by associating a set of disk devices in a custom failure group. By default, each device comprises its own failure group. However, if two disk devices in a normal redundancy disk group are attached to the same SCSI controller, then the disk group becomes unavailable if the controller fails. The controller in this example is a single point of failure. To protect against failures of this type, you could use two SCSI controllers, each with two disks, and define a failure group for the disks attached to each controller. This configuration would enable the disk group to tolerate the failure of one SCSI controller. Note: If you are sure that a suitable disk group does not exist on the system, then install or identify appropriate disk devices to add to a new disk group. Use the following guidelines when identifying appropriate disk devices: All of the devices in an Oracle Automatic Storage Management disk group should be the same size and have the same performance characteristics. Do not specify multiple partitions on a single physical disk as a disk group device. Oracle Automatic Storage Management expects each disk group device to be on a separate physical disk. Although you can specify logical volumes as devices in an Oracle ASM disk group, Oracle does not recommend their use. Non-shared logical volumes are not supported with Oracle RAC. If you want to use logical volumes for your Oracle RAC database, then you must use shared and concurrent raw logical volumes created by a cluster-aware logical volume manager. Oracle ACFS is installed as part of an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management) for 11g release 2 (11.2). You can configure Oracle ACFS for a database home, or use ASMCA to configure ACFS as a general purpose file system. Note: To configure Oracle ACFS for an Oracle Database home for an Oracle RAC database: Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management) Change directory to the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home. For example: Ensure that the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner has read and write permissions on the storage mountpoint you want to use. For example, if you want to use the mountpoint Start Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant as the grid installation owner. For example: The Configure ASM: ASM Disk Groups page shows you the Oracle ASM disk group you created during installation. Click the ASM Cluster File Systems tab. On the ASM Cluster File Systems page, right-click the Data disk, then select Create ACFS for Database Home. In the Create ACFS Hosted Database Home window, enter the following information: Database Home ADVM Volume Device Name: Enter the name of the database home. The name must be unique in your enterprise. For example: Database Home Mountpoint: Enter the directory path for the mount point. For example: Make a note of this mount point for future reference. Database Home Size (GB): Enter in gigabytes the size you want the database home to be. Database Home Owner Name: Enter the name of the Oracle Database installation owner you plan to use to install the database. For example: Database Home Owner Group: Enter the OSDBA group whose members you plan to provide when you install the database. Members of this group are given operating system authentication for the SYSDBA privileges on the database. For example: Click OK when you have completed your entries. Run the script generated by Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant as a privileged user ( During Oracle RAC installation, ensure that you or the DBA who installs Oracle RAC selects for the Oracle home the mount point you provided in the Database Home Mountpoint field (in the preceding example, See Also: If you have an Oracle ASM installation from a prior release installed on your server, or in an existing Oracle Clusterware installation, then you can use Oracle Automatic Storage Management Configuration Assistant (ASMCA, located in the path Note: During installation, if you are upgrading from an Oracle ASM release prior to 11.2, and you chose to use Oracle ASM and ASMCA detects that there is a prior Oracle ASM version installed in another Oracle ASM home, then after installing the Oracle ASM 11g release 2 (11.2) binaries, you can start ASMCA to upgrade the existing Oracle ASM instance. 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Title and Copyright Information
Preface
What's New in Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation and Configuration?
1 Typical Installation for Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster
2 Advanced Installation Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Preinstallation Tasks
3 Configuring Storage for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)
4 Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster
5 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Postinstallation Procedures
6 How to Modify or Deinstall Oracle Grid Infrastructure
A Troubleshooting the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Process
B Installing and Configuring Oracle Database Using Response Files
C Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Installation Concepts
D How to Complete Installation Prerequisite Tasks Manually
E How to Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2
Index
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2 Advanced Installation Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Preinstallation Tasks
2.1 Reviewing Upgrade Best Practices
2.2 Installation Fixup Scripts
runfixup.sh). You can run the fixup script after you click the Fix and Check Again Button.
cluvfy command
$ ./runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst -n node1,node2 -fixup -verbose
2.3 Logging In to a Remote System as root Using X Terminal
root user on the system where you install Oracle software. To complete tasks as the root user on a remote server, you need to enable remote display as root.
oracle), then you need to repeat this procedure for that user as well.xterm).
$ xhost + remote_host
remote_host is the fully qualified remote hostname. For example:
$ xhost + somehost.example.com
somehost.example.com being added to the access control list
ssh, command to connect to the system where you want to install the software:
$ ssh remote_host
remote_host is the fully qualified remote hostname. For example:
$ ssh somehost.example.com
root user, then enter the following command to switch the user to root:
$ su - root
password:
#
xterm).root user on the remote system, then enter the following command to switch user to root:
$ su - root
password:
#
2.4 Creating Groups, Users and Paths for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
root, and use the following instructions to locate or create groups and users required for installation.
2.4.1 Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists
oraInst.loc file. This file identifies the name of the Oracle Inventory group (by default, oinstall), and the path of the Oracle Central Inventory directory. An oraInst.loc file has contents similar to the following:
inventory_loc=central_inventory_location
inst_group=group
central_inventory_location is the location of the Oracle central inventory, and group is the name of the group that has permissions to write to the central inventory (the OINSTALL group privilege).oraInventory) on your system:
# more /etc/oraInst.loc
oraInst.loc file exists, then the output from this command is similar to the following:
inventory_loc=/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory
inst_group=oinstall
inventory_loc group shows the location of the Oracle Inventoryinst_group parameter shows the name of the Oracle Inventory group (in this example, oinstall).grep groupname /etc/group to confirm that the group specified as the Oracle Inventory group still exists on the system. For example:
$ grep oinstall /etc/group
oinstall:x:1000:grid,oracle
2.4.2 Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist
oraInst.loc file does not exist, then create the Oracle Inventory group by entering a command similar to the following:
# mkgroup id=1000 adms='root' oinstall
oinstall, with the group ID number 1000. Members of the oraInventory group are granted privileges to write to the Oracle central inventory (oraInventory).
2.4.3 Creating the Oracle Grid Infrastructure User
grid user. A user created to own either all Oracle installations, or only Oracle database installations, is called the oracle user.
2.4.3.1 Understanding Restrictions for Oracle Software Installation Owners
sqlplus, lsnrctl, or asmcmd commands while $ORACLE_HOME is set to a different binary path, then you will encounter errors. When starting srvctl from a database home, $ORACLE_HOME should be set. or srvctl fails. But if you are using srvctl in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, then $ORACLE_HOME is ignored, and the oracle home path does not affect srvctl commands. You always have to change $ORACLE_HOME to the instance that you want to administer.oraInventory) directory, and are also granted permissions for various Oracle Clusterware resources, OCR keys, directories in the Oracle Clusterware home to which DBAs need write access, and other necessary privileges. In Oracle documentation, this group is represented as oinstall in code examples.
2.4.3.2 Determining if an Oracle Software Owner User Exists
oracle or grid exists, enter a command similar to the following (in this case, to determine if oracle exists):
# id oracle
uid=501(oracle) gid=501(oinstall) groups=502(dba),503(oper)
oinstall). If this user account will be used for Oracle Database installations, then ensure that the Oracle account is also a member of the group you plan to designate as the OSDBA for ASM group (the group whose members are permitted to write to Oracle ASM storage).
2.4.3.3 Creating or Modifying an Oracle Software Owner User for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
oracle, grid) user does not exist, or if you require a new Oracle software owner user, then create it. If you want to use an existing user account, then modify it to ensure that the user ID and group IDs are the same on each cluster member node. The following procedures uses grid as the name of the Oracle software owner, and dba as the OSASM group. To create separate system privilege groups to separate administration privileges, complete group creation before you create the user Section 2.4.5, "Creating Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and Users"
2.4.3.3.1 Creating a New User
# smit security
grid). In the Primary GROUP field, specify the Oracle Inventory group. Make a note of the information you provide in the entry fields, so that you can provide the same value on other nodes.grid). For example:
# passwd grid
grid) has the capabilities CAP_NUMA_ATTACH, CAP_BYPASS_RAC_VMM, and CAP_PROPAGATE.root:
# /usr/bin/lsuser -a capabilities grid
# /usr/bin/chuser
capabilities=CAP_NUMA_ATTACH,CAP_BYPASS_RAC_VMM,CAP_PROPAGATE grid
2.4.3.3.2 Modifying an Existing User
# smit security
oinstall.
2.4.4 Creating the Oracle Base Directory Path
oinstall) group. The OFA path for the Oracle base is /u01/app/user, where user is the name of the software installation owner.
# mkdir -p /u01/app/11.2.0/grid
# mkdir -p /u01/app/grid
# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
# chown grid:oinstall /u01/app/11.2.0/grid
# chown grid:oinstall /u01/app/grid
# chown oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oracle
# chmod -R 775 /u01/
# chown -R grid:oinstall /u01
2.4.5 Creating Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and Users
oracle user to be the installation owner for all Oracle software, and designate oinstall to be the group whose members are granted all system privileges for Oracle Clusterware, Oracle Automatic Storage Management, and all Oracle Databases on the servers, and all privileges as installation owners. This group must also be the Oracle Inventory group.OINSTALL privilege. To simplify using the defaults for Oracle tools such as Cluster Verification Utility, if you do choose to use a single operating system group to grant all system privileges and the right to write to the oraInventory, then that group name should be oinstall.
2.4.5.1 Overview of Creating Job Role Separation Groups and Users
root to create these groups and users.
2.4.5.1.1 Users for Oracle Installations with Job Role Separation
oracle, for the database software owner user, and grid for Oracle Grid Infrastructure.oraInventory), and so that OCR and Oracle Clusterware resource permissions are set correctly. The database software owner must also have the OSDBA group and (if you create it) the OSOPER group as secondary groups. In Oracle documentation, when Oracle software owner users are referred to, they are called oracle users.grid user. This user owns both the Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management binaries.
SYSDBA, SYSASM and SYSOPER privileges
2.4.5.1.2 Database Groups for Job Role Separation Installations
dba)SYSDBA privilege). If you do not create separate OSDBA, OSOPER and OSASM groups for the Oracle ASM instance, then operating system user accounts that have the SYSOPER and SYSASM privileges must be members of this group. The name used for this group in Oracle code examples is dba. If you do not designate a separate group as the OSASM group, then the OSDBA group you define is also by default the OSASM group.dba group, then you must choose the Advanced installation type to install the software or start Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) as a user that is not a member of this group. In this case, OUI prompts you to specify the name of this group.SYSASM privileges on Oracle ASM instances, including mounting and dismounting disk groups. This privileges grant is removed with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2, if different operating system groups are designated as the OSDBA and OSASM groups. If the same group is used for both OSDBA and OSASM, then the privilege is retained.oper)SYSOPER privilege). By default, members of the OSDBA group also have all privileges granted by the SYSOPER privilege.dba group, then you must choose the Advanced installation type to install the software or start OUI as a user that is not a member of the dba group. In this case, OUI prompts you to specify the name of this group. The usual name chosen for this group is oper.
2.4.5.1.3 Oracle ASM Groups for Job Role Separation Installations
SYSASM is a new system privilege that enables the separation of the Oracle ASM storage administration privilege from SYSDBA. With Oracle Automatic Storage Management 11g release 2 (11.2), members of the database OSDBA group are not granted SYSASM privileges, unless the operating system group designated as the OSASM group is the same group designated as the OSDBA group.asmadmin)asmadmin.SYSASM using operating system authentication. The SYSASM privileges permit mounting and dismounting disk groups, and other storage administration tasks. SYSASM privileges provide no access privileges on an RDBMS instance.asmdba)asmoper)asmadmin group, then you must choose the Advanced installation type to install the software, In this case, OUI prompts you to specify the name of this group. In code examples, this group is asmoper.
2.4.5.2 Creating Database Groups and Users with Job Role Separation
2.4.5.2.1 Creating the OSDBA Group to Prepare for Database Installations
smit or by using shell command lines. Use the group name dba unless a group with that name already exists. For example:
# mkgroup -'A' id='1031' adms='root' dba
2.4.5.2.2 Creating an OSOPER Group for Database Installations
smit or by using shell command lines. Use the group name oper unless a group with that name already exists.
# mkgroup -'A' id='1032' adms='root' oper1
2.4.5.2.3 Creating the OSASM Group
smit or by using shell command lines. Use the group name asmadmin unless a group with that name already exists:
# mkgroup -'A' id='1020' adms='root' asmadmin
2.4.5.2.4 Creating the OSOPER for ASM Group
smit or by using shell command lines. Use the group name asmoper unless a group with that name already exists:
# mkgroup -'A' id='1022' adms='root' asmoper
2.4.5.2.5 Creating the OSDBA for ASM Group for Database Access to Oracle ASM
smit or by using shell command lines. Use the group name asmdba unless a group with that name already exists. For example:
# mkgroup -'A' id='1021' adms='root' asmdba
2.4.5.2.6 When to Create the Oracle Software Owner User
grid, and you want to create a separate Oracle software owner for Oracle Database software, such as oracle.
2.4.5.2.7 Determining if an Oracle Software Owner User Exists
oracle or grid exists, enter a command similar to the following (in this case, to determine if oracle exists):
# id oracle
uid=501(oracle) gid=501(oinstall) groups=502(dba),503(oper)
2.4.5.2.8 Creating an Oracle Software Owner User
oracle unless a user with that name already exists.
2.4.5.2.9 Modifying an Existing Oracle Software Owner User
oracle user exists, but its primary group is not oinstall, or it is not a member of the appropriate OSDBA or OSDBA for ASM groups, then update it using smit:smit at the shell prompt.
2.4.5.2.10 Creating Identical Database Users and Groups on Other Cluster Nodes
grid or oracle users, and the group IDs (GID) of the existing Oracle groups, follow these steps:oracle user):
# id oracle
uid=502(oracle) gid=501(oinstall) groups=502(dba),503(oper),506(asmdba)
uid) for the user and the group identities (gid) for the groups to which it belongs. Ensure that these ID numbers are identical on each node of the cluster. The user's primary group is listed after gid. Secondary groups are listed after groups.root.smit or by entering command lines. To use command line entries, enter commands similar to the following to create the oinstall, asmadmin, and asmdba groups, and if required, the asmoper, dba, and oper groups. Use the id option to specify the correct gid for each group.
# mkgroup -'A' id='1000' adms='root' oinstall
# mkgroup -'A' id='1020' adms='root' asmadmin
# mkgroup -'A' id='1021' adms='root' asmdba
# mkgroup -'A' id='1022' adms='root' asmoper
# mkgroup -'A' id='1031' adms='root' dba
# mkgroup -'A' id='1032' adms='root' oper
smit to modify it if necessary. If you cannot use the same group ID for a particular group on this node, then view the /etc/group file on all nodes to identify a group ID that is available on every node. You must then change the group ID on all nodes to the same group ID.oracle or Oracle Grid Infrastructure (grid) user, use smit or enter a command similar to the following (in this example, to create the oracle user):
# mkuser id='1001' pgrp='oinstall' groups='dba,asmdba' home='/home/oracle' oracle
id option specifies the user ID, which must be the user ID that you identified in the previous subsectionpgrp option specifies the primary group, which must be the Oracle Inventory group, for example oinstallgroups option specifies the secondary groups, which can include the OSASM, OSDBA, OSDBA for ASM, and OSOPER or OSOPER for ASM groups. For example:asmadmin), whose members are granted the SYSASM privilegedba), OSDBA for ASM (asmdba), OSOPER for ASM (asmoper)
smit to modify it if necessary. If you cannot use the same user ID for the user on every node, then view the /etc/passwd file on all nodes to identify a user ID that is available on every node. You must then specify that ID for the user on all of the nodes.
# passwd oracle
2.4.6 Example of Creating Standard Groups, Users, and Paths
oinstall), and a single group (dba) as the OSDBA, OSASM and OSDBA for ASM groups. In addition, it shows how to create the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software owner (grid), and one Oracle Database owner (oracle) with correct group memberships. This example also shows how to configure an Oracle base path compliant with OFA structure with correct permissions:
# mkgroup -'A' id='1000' adms='root' oinstall
# mkgroup -'A' id='1031' adms='root' dba
# mkuser id='1100' pgrp='oinstall' groups='dba' home='/home/grid' grid
# mkuser id='1101' pgrp='oinstall' groups='dba' home='/home/oracle' oracle
# mkdir -p /u01/app/grid
# chown -R grid:oinstall /u01
# mkdir /u01/app/oracle
# chown oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oracle
# chmod -R 775 /u01/
oinstall). Members who have the central inventory group as their primary group, are granted the OINSTALL permission to write to the oraInventory directory.dba), whose members are granted the SYSASM and SYSDBA privilege to administer Oracl e Clusterware, Oracle ASM, and Oracle Database, and are granted SYSASM and OSOPER for ASM access to the Oracle ASM storage.grid), with the oraInventory group as its primary group, and with the OSASM group as the secondary group, with its Oracle base directory /u01/app/grid.oracle) with the oraInventory group as its primary group, and the OSDBA group as its secondary group, with its Oracle base directory /u01/app/oracle./u01/app owned by grid:oinstall with 775 permissions before installation, and by root after the root.sh script is run during installation. This ownership and permissions enables OUI to create the Oracle Inventory directory, in the path /u01/app/oraInventory./u01 owned by grid:oinstall before installation, and by root after the root.sh script is run during installation./u01/app/11.2.0/grid owned by grid:oinstall with 775 permissions. These permissions are required for installation, and are changed during the installation process./u01/app/grid owned by grid:oinstall with 775 permissions before installation, and 755 permissions after installation./u01/app/oracle owned by oracle:oinstall with 775 permissions.
2.4.7 Example of Creating Role-allocated Groups, Users, and Paths
# mkgroup -'A' id='1000' adms='root' oinstall
# mkgroup -'A' id='1020' adms='root' asmadmin
# mkgroup -'A' id='1021' adms='root' asmdba
# mkgroup -'A' id='1031' adms='root' dba1
# mkgroup -'A' id='1041' adms='root' dba2
# mkgroup -'A' id='1022' adms='root' asmoper
# mkuser id='1100' pgrp='oinstall' groups='asmadmin' home='/home/grid' grid
# mkuser id='1101' pgrp='oinstall' groups='dba1,asmdba' home='/home/oracle' oracle1
# mkuser id='1102' pgrp='oinstall' groups='dba2,asmdba' home='/home/oracle' oracle2
# mkdir -p /u01/app/11.2.0/grid
# mkdir -p /u01/app/grid
# chown -R grid:oinstall /u01/app/grid
# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle1
# chown oracle1:oinstall /u01/app/oracle1
# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle2
# chown oracle2:oinstall /u01/app/oracle2
# chmod -R 775 /u01
oinstall), whose members that have this group as their primary group are granted permissions to write to the oraInventory directory.asmadmin), whose members are granted the SYSASM privilege to administer Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM.asmdba), whose members include grid, oracle1 and oracle2, and who are granted access to Oracle ASM.asmoper), whose members are granted limited Oracle ASM administrator privileges, including the permissions to start and stop the Oracle ASM instance.grid), with the oraInventory group as its primary group, and with the OSASM (asmadmin), OSDBA for ASM (asmdba) group as a secondary group.dba1 and dba2) to establish separate SYSDBA privileges for each database.oracle1 and oracle2), to divide ownership of the Oracle database binaries, with the OraInventory group as their primary group, and the OSDBA group for their database (dba1 or dba2) and the OSDBA for ASM group (asmdba) as their secondary groups./u01 owned by grid:oinstall before installation./u01/app/grid owned by grid:oinstall with 775 permissions, and changed during the installation process to 755 permissions./u01/app/oracle1 owned by oracle1:oinstall with 775 permissions./u01/app/oracle 2 owned by oracle2:oinstall with 775 permissions./u01/app/11.2.0/grid owned by grid:oinstall with 775 (drwxdrwxr-x) permissions. These permissions are required for installation, and are changed during the installation process to root:oinstall with 755 permissions (drwxr-xr-x)./u01/app/oraInventory. This path remains owned by grid:oinstall, to enable other Oracle software owners to write to the central inventory.
2.5 Checking the Hardware Requirements
Available RAM Swap Space Required Between 2.5 GB and 16 GB Equal to the size of RAM More than 16 GB 16 GB
chps to increase or decrease the paging space size. The output of chps should indicate paging space use of less than 25 percent on a properly configured system. Refer to Oracle Database Administrator's Reference for AIX for more information about configuring paging space./tmp directory
/dev/shm mount area on each server must be greater than the system global areal (SGA) and the program global area (PGA) of the databases on the servers. Review expected SGA and PGA sizes with database administrators, to ensure that you do not have to increase /dev/shm after databases are installed on the cluster.
# /usr/sbin/lsattr -E -l sys0 -a realmem
# /usr/sbin/lsps -s
# /usr/sbin/lsps -a
/tmp directory, enter the following command:
# /usr/bin/df -k /tmp
/tmp directory, then complete one of the following steps:/tmp directory to make available the disk space required.oracle user's environment./tmp directory. If necessary, contact your system administrator for information about extending file systems.
# /usr/bin/df -k
lv_name is the name of the raw logical volume whose space you want to verify:
# lslv lv_name
rhdisk# is the raw hard disk number that you want to verify, and the variable size_mb is the size in megabytes of the partition that you want to verify:
# lsattr -El rhdisk# -a size_mb
# bootinfo -K
2.6 Checking the Network Requirements
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2.6.1 Network Hardware Requirements
node1 with eth0 as the public interface, but on node2 have eth1 as the public interface. Public interface names must be the same, so you must configure eth0 as public on both nodes. You should configure the private interfaces on the same network adapters as well. If eth1 is the private interface for node1, then eth1 should be the private interface for node2.
ping.
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
root@node1]$ nslookup mycluster-scan
Server: dns.example.com
Address: 192.0.2.001
Name: mycluster-scan.example.com
Address: 192.0.2.201
Name: myclus ter-scan.example.com
Address: 192.0.2.202
Name: mycluster-scan.example.com
Address: 192.0.2.203
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
mycluster, and the domain name is example.com, and the IP address is 192.0.2.1, create an entry similar to the following:
mycluster-gns.example.com A 192.0.2.1
cluster01.example.com is the subdomain you want to delegate:
cluster01.example.com NS mycluster-gns.example.com
resolve.conf on the nodes in the cluster (or the file on your system that provides resolution information) to contain name server entries that are resolvable to corporate DNS servers. The total timeout period configured—a combination of options attempts (retries) and options timeout (exponential backoff)—should be less than 30 seconds. For example, where xxx.xxx.xxx.42 and xxx.xxx.xxx.15 are valid name server addresses in your network, provide an entry similar to the following in /etc/resolv.conf:
options attempts: 2
options timeout: 1
search cluster01.example.com example.com
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.42
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.15
/etc/nsswitch.conf controls name service lookup order. In some system configurations, the Network Information System (NIS) can cause problems with Oracle SCAN address resolution. Oracle recommends that you place the nis entry at the end of the search list. For example:
/etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns nis
2.6.6 Grid Naming Service Configuration Example
mycluster, the GNS parent domain is example.com, the subdomain is grid.example.com, 192.0.2 in the IP addresses represent the cluster public IP address network, and 192.168.0 represents the private IP address subnet:
Identity Home Node Host Node Given Name Type Address Address Assigned By Resolved By
mycluster-gns.example.com
node1
node1Foot 1
node1-vip
node1
node1-priv
node2
node2Footref 1
node2-vip
node2
node2-priv
mycluster-scan.cluster01.example.com
mycluster-scan.cluster01.example.com
mycluster-scan.cluster01.example.com
2.6.7 Manual IP Address Configuration Example
ping command. To find the default gateway, use the route command, as described in your operating system's help utility.
Identity Home Node Host Node Given Name Type Address Address Assigned By Resolved By
node1
node1Foot 1
node1-vip
node1
node1-priv
node2
node2Footref 1
node2-vip
node2
node2-priv
en1, for example), and to the subnet used for the private subnet.
2.6.8 Network Interface Configuration Options
2.7 Identifying the Software Requirements
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2.8 Checking the Software Requirements
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bos.perf.perfstat bos.perf.proctools rsct.basic.rte rsct.compat.clients.rte \
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2.9 Verifying UDP and TCP Kernel Parameters
# /usr/sbin/no -a | fgrep ephemeral
tcp_ephemeral_low = 32768
tcp_ephemeral_high = 65535
udp_ephemeral_low = 32768
udp_ephemeral_high = 65535
# /usr/sbin/no -p -o tcp_ephemeral_low=9000 -o tcp_ephemeral_high=65500
# /usr/sbin/no -p -o udp_ephemeral_low=9000 -o udp_ephemeral_high=65500
2.10 Tuning AIX System Environment
2.10.1 Checking Asynchronous Input Output Processes for AIX 5L
rootpre.sh script to enable the Asynchronous Input Output (AIO) device drivers. On AIX 6, the AIO device drivers are enabled by default. For both AIX 5 and AIX 6, increase the number of aioserver processes from the default value. The recommended value for aio_maxreqs is 64k (65536). Confirm this value for both AIX 5 and AIX 6.aio_maxreqs value using the procedure for your release:
# ioo -o aio_maxreqs
aio_maxreqs = 65536
# lsattr -El aio0 -a maxreqs
maxreqs 65536 Maximum number of REQUESTS True
minservers parameter. As concurrent asynchronous I/O operations occur, additional asynchronous I/O servers are started, up to a maximum of the value set in the maxservers parameter.minservers and maxservers, as the default values for these parameters are too small. Increase the minservers and maxservers values based on I/O kprocs for each processor.
# ps -ek|grep -v grep|grep –v posix_aioserver|grep -c aioserver
2.10.2 Tuning Virtual Memory Manager (VMM)
vmo command to tune virtual memory using the following values:
Parameter Value
vmo -p -o minperm%=3
vmo -p -o maxperm%=90
vmo -p -o maxclient%=90
vmo -p -o lru_file_repage=0
vmo -p -o strict_maxclient=1
vmo -p -o strict_maxperm=0
2.10.3 Increasing System Block Size Allocation
/usr/sbin/chdev -l sys0 -a ncargs='128'
2.10.4 Configuring SSH LoginGraceTime Parameter for AIX
/etc/ssh/sshd_config.#LoginGraceTime 2m.0 (unlimited). For example:
LoginGraceTime 0
/etc/ssh/sshd_config.
2.10.5 Configuring Shell Limits
/etc/security/limits file. The root user requires these settings because the crs daemon (crsd) runs as root.
/etc/security/limits file:
default:
fsize = -1
core = 2097151
cpu = -1
data = -1
rss = -1
stack = -1
nofiles = -1
/usr/sbin/lsattr -E -l sys0 -a maxuproc
maxuproc setting using the following command:
/usr/sbin/chdev -l sys0 -a maxuproc=16384
2.10.6 Configuring User Process Parameters
PROCESSES and PARALLEL_MAX_SERVERS initialization parameters for each database running on the system.
# smit chgsys
2.10.7 Config uring Network Tuning Parameters
Network Tuning Parameter Recommended Value ipqmaxlen 512 rfc1323 1 sb_max 4194304 tcp_recvspace 65536 tcp_sendspace 65536 udp_recvspace 655360
udp_sendspace 65536
DB_BLOCK_SIZE initialization parameter multiplied by the value of the DB_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT initialization parameter:DB_BLOCK_SIZE * DB_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT) + 4 KB
# no -a | more
# lsattr -E -l sys0 -a pre520tune
pre520tune enable Pre-520 tuning compatibility mode True
# no -o parameter_name=value
# no -o udp_recvspace=655360
/etc/rc.net file for each parameter that you changed in the previous step:
if [ -f /usr/sbin/no ] ; then
/usr/sbin/no -o udp_sendspace=65536
/usr/sbin/no -o udp_recvspace=655360
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_sendspace=65536
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_recvspace=65536
/usr/sbin/no -o rfc1323=1
/usr/sbin/no -o sb_max=4194304
/usr/sbin/no -o ipqmaxlen=512
fi
/etc/rc.net file, the values persist when the system restarts.ipqmaxlen parameter:
/usr/sbin/no -r -o ipqmaxlen=512
/usr/sbin/no -p -o parameter=value
ipqmaxlen parameter, then you must restart the system./etc/tunables/nextboot file, causing the attribute values to persist when the system restarts.ifconfig command to check each network parameter after you change the no global setting.
# ifconfig en0
en0:
flags=1e080863,2c0<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,GROUPRT,6
4BIT,CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD(ACTIVE),LARGESEND,CHAIN,MONITOR>
inet 192.0.2.1 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 192.0.2.0
inet 192.0.2.2 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 192.0.2.0
inet 192.0.2.3 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 192.0.2.0
inet 192.0.2.4 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 192.0.2.0
tcp_sendspace 131072 tcp_recvspace 65536 rfc1323 0
# ifconfig en0 tcp_sendspace 65536
2.11 Network Time Protocol Setting
ctssd starts up in active mode and synchronizes time among cluster members without contacting an external time server.
root user
# stopsrc -s xntpd
ctssd is active after installation, enter the following command as the Grid installation owner:
$ crsctl stat resource ora.ctssd -t -init
/etc/rc.tcpip:/etc/rc.tcpip file, and locate the following line:
start /usr/sbin/xntpd "$src_running"
start /usr/sbin/xntpd "$src_running" "-x"
# startsrc -s xntpd -a "-x"
2.12 Automatic SSH Configuration During Installation
ssh and scp commands during installation to run remote commands on and copy files to the other cluster nodes. You must configure SSH so that these commands do not prompt for a password.
stty commands from the profiles of any Oracle software installation owners, and remove other security measures that are triggered during a login, and that generate messages to the terminal. These messages, mail checks, and other displays prevent Oracle software installation owners from using the SSH configuration script that is built into the Oracle Universal Installer. If they are not disabled, then SSH must be configured manually before an installation can be run.
/usr/local/etc/, and ssh-keygen binaries in /usr/local/bin. However, on AIX, SSH public keys typically are located in the path /etc/ssh, and ssh-keygen binaries are located in the path /usr/bin. To ensure that OUI can set up SSH, use the following command to create soft links:
# ln -s /etc/ssh /usr/local/etc
# ln -s /usr/bin /usr/local/bin
LoginGraceTime 0
2.13 Configuring Grid Infrastructure Software Owner User Environments
oracle or grid). However, before you start the installer, you must configure the environment of the installation owner user account. Also, create other required Oracle software owners, if needed.
2.13.1 Environment Requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Owner
grid, oracle) default file mode creation mask (umask) to 022 in the shell startup file. Setting the mask to 022 ensures that the user performing the software installation creates files with 644 permissions.grid, oracle)
2.13.2 Environment Requirements for Oracle Database and Oracle ASM Owners
oracle) and Oracle ASM software owner (asm)./u01/app/user, where user is the name of the user account that you want to own the Oracle Database software. For example: /u01/app/oracle.
asm, oracle) default file mode creation mask (umask) to 022 in the shell startup file. Setting the mask to 022 ensures that the user performing the software installation creates files with 644 permissions.
2.13.3 Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments
grid, oracle):xterm).
$ xhost + hostname
grid user:
$ su - grid
$ echo $SHELL
sh) or Korn shell (ksh):
% vi .profile
csh or tcsh):
% vi .login
umask 022
ORACLE_SID, ORACLE_HOME, or ORACLE_BASE environment variable is set in the file, then remove the appropriate lines from the file.
$ . ./.profile
% source ./.login
$ DISPLAY=
local_host:0.0 ; export DISPLAY
% setenv DISPLAY
local_host:0.0
local_host is the host name or IP address of the system that you want to use to display OUI (your workstation or PC)./tmp directory has less than 1 GB MB of free disk space, then identify a file system with at least 1 GB of free space and set the TEMP and TMPDIR environment variables to specify a temporary directory on this file system:
/tmp) for Oracle RAC installation. If you place /tmp on a shared file system, then the installation fails.df -k command to identify a suitable file system with sufficient free space.
$ su - root
# mkdir /mount_point/tmp
# chmod 775 /mount_point/tmp
# exit
$ TEMP=/mount_point/tmp
$ TMPDIR=/mount_point/tmp
$ export TEMP TMPDIR
% setenv TEMP /mount_point/tmp
% setenv TMPDIR /mount_point/tmp
2.13.4 Setting Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration
$ export DISPLAY=hostname:0
$ setenv DISPLAY hostname:0
node1, then enter the following command:
$ export DISPLAY=node1:0
~/.ssh/config file.no. For example:
Host *
ForwardX11 no
2.13.5 Preventing Installation Errors Caused by Terminal Output Commands
.bashrc or .cshrc) will cause makefile and other installation errors if they contain stty commands.STDOUT or STDERR (for example, stty, xtitle, and other such commands) as in the following examples:
if [ -t 0 ]; then
stty intr ^C
fi
test -t 0
if ($status == 0) then
stty intr ^C
endif
stty commands that are loaded by the remote shell, then OUI indicates an error and stops the installation.
2.14 Running the rootpre.sh Script
rootpre.sh script if you have a later release of the Oracle Database software already installed on this system.rootpre.sh script:
$ su - root
directory_path is the disc mount point directory or the path of the database directory on the DVD:
# /directory_path/rootpre.sh
# ./rootpre.sh
# exit
rootpre.sh script if you have a later release of Oracle Database software already installed on this system.
2.15 Adding the Grid Infrastructure Installation Owner to Hagsuser Group
rootpre.sh command creates the hagsuser group. You must make the grid infrastructure installation owner (grid) a member of that group.grid) to haguser
# /usr/bin/chgrpmem -m + grid hagsuser
hagsuser group, stop and restart HACMP before trying to use it with Oracle Grid Infrastructure.
2.16 Requirements for Creating an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Directory
root, or in a unique path.oracle for a single installation owner for all Oracle software, or grid for role-based Oracle installation owners), and set to 775 permissions.oraInventory) directories for you.
# mkdir -p /u01/app/11.2.0/grid
# chown grid:oinstall /u01/app/11.2.0/grid
# chmod -R 775 /u01/app/11.2.0/grid
/u01/app/11.2.0/grid
/u01/app/user, where user is the name of the Oracle software installation owner account. For example, use the following commands to create an Oracle base for the database installation owner account oracle:
# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oracle
# chmod -R 775 /u01/app/oracle
2.17 Cluster Name Requirements
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srvctl using the following syntax, where db_unique_name is the unique name for the database, and lsnrname is the name of the listeners:/crs/install. For example:
# cd /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/crs/install
# roothas.pl -deconfig -force
$ Grid_home/crs/config/config.sh -silent -responseFile $HOME/GI.rsp
root.sh for the Oracle Clusterware Configuration Wizard.volenable command to enable all Oracle Restart disk group volumes.
/u01/app/grid/product/11.2.0/grid/bin/srvctl add filesystem -d /dev/asm/db1 -g ORestartData -v db1 -m /u01/app/grid/product/11.2.0/db1 -u grid
mydb, and the service myservice, enter the following commands:
srvctl add database -d mydb -o $ORACLE_HOME -x node1
srvctl add service. For example:
srvctl add service -d mydb -s myservice
6.3 Relinking Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Binaries
Grid_home is the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster home:
# cd Grid_home/crs/install
# perl rootcrs.pl -unlock
$ export ORACLE_HOME=Grid_home
$ Grid_home/bin/relink
# cd Grid_home/rdbms/install/
# ./rootadd_rdbms.sh
# cd Grid_home/crs/install
# perl rootcrs.pl -patch
6.4 Changing the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Path
grid), where /u01/app/11.2.0/grid is the existing Grid home location:
$ cd /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/oui/bin
$ ./detachhome.sh -silent -local -invPtrLoc /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/oraInst.loc
/u01/app/11.2.0/grid and the new Grid home is /u01/app/grid:
# mv /u01/app/11.2.0/grid /u01/app/grid
Grid_home/clone/bin directory and run the clone.pl script, provide values for the input parameters that provide the path information for the new Grid home.
# cd /u01/app/grid/crs/install
# perl rootcrs.pl -patch -dstcrshome /u01/app/grid
6.5 Deconfiguring Oracle Clusterware Without Removing Binaries
rootcrs.pl command flags -deconfig -force enables you to deconfigure Oracle Clusterware on one or more nodes without removing installed binaries. This feature is useful if you encounter an error on one or more cluster nodes during installation when running the root.sh command, such as a missing operating system package on one node. By running rootcrs.pl -deconfig -force on nodes where you encounter an installation error, you can deconfigure Oracle Clusterware on those nodes, correct the cause of the error, and then run root.sh again.
root user on a node where you encountered an error.
# cd /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/crs/install
# perl rootcrs.pl -deconfig -force
# perl rootcrs.pl -deconfig -force -lastnode
-lastnode flag completes deconfiguration of the cluster, including the OCR and voting disks.
6.6 Removing Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM
deinstall command removes Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM from your server. The following sections describe the command, and provide information about additional options to use the command:
6.6.1 About the Deinstallation Tool
deinstall) stops Oracle software, and removes Oracle software and configuration files on the operating system. It is available in the installation media before installation, and is available in Oracle home directories after installation. It is located in the path $ORACLE_HOME/deinstall. The Deinstallation tool command is also available for download from Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at the following URL:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloadsdeinstall command using the -checkonly flag and -o flag. You can also edit a response file template to create a parameter file.The Deinstallation tool command stops Oracle software, and removes Oracle software and configuration files on the operating system for a specific Oracle home. If you run the Deinstallation tool to remove an Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster installation, then the tool prompts you to run the rootcrs.pl script as root.
deinstall command deletes this data.
deinstall -home complete path of Oracle home [-silent] [-checkonly] [-local]
[-cleanupOBase][-paramfile complete path of input parameter property file]
[-params name1=value name2=value . . .] [-o complete path of directory for saving files] -h
$ cd /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/deinstall
$ ./deinstall
-homedeinstall command in the Oracle home you plan to deinstall, provide a parameter file in another location, and do not use the -home flag.deinstall from the $ORACLE_HOME/deinstall path, then the -home flag is not required because the tool knows from which home it is being run. If you use the standalone version of the tool, then -home is mandatory.silentdeinstall.rsp.tmpl, located in the response folder of the Deinstallation tool home or the Oracle home.deinstall command using the -checkonly flag. The deinstall command then discovers information from the Oracle home that you want to deinstall and deconfigure. It generates the properties file, which you can then use with the -silent option.-checkonlycheckonly flag does not remove the Oracle configuration.-localdeinstall with this flag, it deconfigures and deinstalls the Oracle software on the local node (the node where deinstall is run) for non-shared home directories. On remote nodes, it deconfigures Oracle software, but does not deinstall the Oracle software.cleanupOBaseadmin, oradata and flash_recovery_area directories. This flag forces an Oracle base removal only if the Oracle home that you specify with the -home flag is the only Oracle home that Oracle base directory is associated with. This flag is available with the deconfig tool available in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 patch release, and from OTN.-paramfile complete path of input parameter property filedeinstall with a parameter file in a location other than the default. When you use this flag, provide the complete path where the parameter file is located. If you are running the deinstall command from the Oracle home that you plan to deinstall, then you do not need to use the -paramfile flag.deinstall:$ORACLE_HOME/inventory/response./ziplocation/response.$ORACLE_HOME/deinstall/response.-params [name1=value name2=value name3=value ...]o complete path of directory for saving response filesdeinstall.rsp.tmpl) is saved.deinstall:$ORACLE_HOME/./ziplocation/response/.$ORACLE_HOME/deinstall/response.-h-h) to obtain additional information about the command option flags.
6.6.2 Deinstalling Previous Release Grid Home
root user, you must manually change the permissions of the previous release Grid home, and then run the deinstall command.
# chown -R grid:oinstall /u01/app/grid/11.2.0
# chmod -R 775 /u01/app/grid/11.2.0
/u01/app/grid/11.2.0 is the previous release Grid home.
6.6.3 Downloading The Deinstall Tool for Use with Failed Installations
deinstall) to remove failed or incomplete installations. It is available as a separate download from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Web site.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html
6.6.4 Deinstall Command Example for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM
deinstall command runs, you are prompted to provide the home directory of the Oracle software that you want to remove from your system. Provide additional information as prompted.deinstall command from an Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster home, enter the following command:
$ cd /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/deinstall/
$ ./deinstall
deinstall parameter file by running the deinstall command using the -checkonly flag before you run the command to deinstall the home, or you can use the response file template and manually edit it to create the parameter file to use with the deinstall command.
6.6.5 Deinstallation Parameter File Example for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster
deinstall command with the -paramfile option to use the values you specify in the parameter file. The following is an example of a parameter file for a cluster on nodes node1 and node2, in which the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster software binary owner is grid, the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home (Grid home) is in the path /u01/app/11.2.0/grid, the Oracle base (the Oracle base for Oracle Grid Infrastructure, containing Oracle ASM log files, Oracle Clusterware logs, and other administrative files) is /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/, the central Oracle Inventory home (oraInventory) is /u01/app/oraInventory, the virtual IP addresses (VIP) are 192.0.2.2 and 192.0.2.4, the local node (the node where you are running the deinstallation session from) is node1:
#Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
#Fri Feb 06 00:08:58 PST 2009
LOCAL_NODE=node1
HOME_TYPE=CRS
ASM_REDUNDANCY=\
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/
VIP1_MASK=255.255.252.0
VOTING_DISKS=/u02/storage/grid/vdsk
SCAN_PORT=1522
silent=true
ASM_UPGRADE=false
ORA_CRS_HOME=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid
GPNPCONFIGDIR=$ORACLE_HOME
LOGDIR=/home/grid/SH/deinstall/logs/
GPNPGCONFIGDIR=$ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_OWNER=grid
NODELIST=node1,node2
CRS_STORAGE_OPTION=2
NETWORKS="eth0"/192.0.2.1\:public,"eth1"/10.0.0.1\:cluster_interconnect
VIP1_IP=192.0.2.2
NETCFGJAR_NAME=netcfg.jar
ORA_DBA_GROUP=dba
CLUSTER_NODES=node1,node2
JREDIR=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/jdk/jre
VIP1_IF=eth0
REMOTE_NODES=node2
VIP2_MASK=255.255.252.0
ORA_ASM_GROUP=asm
LANGUAGE_ID=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
CSS_LEASEDURATION=400
NODE_NAME_LIST=node1,node2
SCAN_NAME=node1scn
SHAREJAR_NAME=share.jar
HELPJAR_NAME=help4.jar
SILENT=false
local=false
INVENTORY_LOCATION=/u01/app/oraInventory
GNS_CONF=false
JEWTJAR_NAME=jewt4.jar
OCR_LOCATIONS=/u02/storage/grid/ocr
EMBASEJAR_NAME=oemlt.jar
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid
CRS_HOME=true
VIP2_IP=192.0.2.4
ASM_IN_HOME=n
EWTJAR_NAME=ewt3.jar
HOST_NAME_LIST=node1,node2
JLIBDIR=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/jlib
VIP2_IF=eth0
VNDR_CLUSTER=false
CRS_NODEVIPS='node1-vip/255.255.252.0/eth0,node2-vip/255.255.252.0/eth0'
CLUSTER_NAME=node1-cluster
CRS_NODEVIPS='n1-vip/255.255.252.0/eth0,n2-vip/255.255.252.0/eth0'
NETWORKS="eth0"/192.0.2.1\:public,"eth1"/10.0.0.1\:cluster_interconnect VIP1_IP=192.0.2.2
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4.1 Preparing to Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure with OUI
$ Oracle_home/bin/gsdctl stop
Oracle_home is the Oracle Database home that is running the GSD.
Oracle_home/bin/localconfig delete
Oracle_home is the existing Oracle Clusterware home.
/var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc file, and uses this location. This directory is the central inventory of Oracle software installed on your system. Users who have the Oracle Inventory group as their primary group are granted the OINSTALL privilege to write to the central inventory.
root user. You must run these scripts as root, or be prepared to have your system administrator run them for you. You must run the root.sh script on the first node and wait for it to finish. If your cluster has four or more nodes, then root.sh can be run concurrently on all nodes but the first and last.
hostname command.myclstr2-vip.
oracle or grid), and must have permissions set to 640.grid or oracle). That installation user must have oinstall as its primary group. During installation, OUI changes ownership of the OCR files to root.ocrconfig command.
$ ./runInstaller -downloadUpdates
4.2 Installing Grid Infrastructure
4.2.1 Running OUI to Install Grid Infrastructure
runInstaller command. For example:
$ cd /home/grid/oracle_sw/Disk1
$ ./runInstaller
root when prompted by OUI. If you need assistance during installation, click Help. Click Details to see the log file. If root.sh fails on any of the nodes, then you can fix the problem and follow the steps in Section 6.5, "Deconfiguring Oracle Clusterware Without Removing Binaries," rerun root.sh on that node, and continue.
root.sh script on the first node and wait for it to finish. If your cluster has four or more nodes, then root.sh can be run concurrently on all nodes but the first and last. As with the first node, the root.sh script on the last node must be run separately.root.sh on all the nodes, OUI runs Net Configuration Assistant (netca) and Cluster Verification Utility. These programs run without user intervention.asmca) configures Oracle ASM during the installation.
4.2.2 Installing Grid Infrastructure Using a Cluster Configuration File
node1 node1-vip
node2 node2-vip
.
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mynode1 mynode1-vip
mynode2 mynode2-vip
4.3 Installing Grid Infrastructure Using a Software-Only Installation
Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide for information about how to clone an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation to other nodes, and then adding them to the cluster
4.3.1 Installing the Software Binaries
runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst. Ensure that you have completed all storage and server preinstallation requirements.runInstaller command from the relevant directory on the Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) installation media or download directory. For example:
$ cd /home/grid/oracle_sw/Disk1
$ ./runInstaller
orainstRoot.sh script when prompted./u01/app/11.2.0/grid):
$ cd /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/
$ set env ORACLE_HOME pwd
$ cd rdbms/lib
$ make -f ins_rdbms.mk rac_on ioracle
root.sh script output provides information about how to proceed, depending on the configuration you plan to complete in this installation. Make note of this information.roothas.pl script, unless you intend to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure on a standalone server (Oracle Restart).runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst. Ensure that you have completed all storage and server preinstallation requirements.
4.3.2 Configuring the Software Binaries
grid_home/crs/config.
$ ./config.sh
4.3.3 Configuring the Software Binaries Using a Response File
config.sh), available in release 11.2.0.2 and later.
grid) start OUI in Oracle Grid Infrastructure configuration wizard mode from the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software-only home using the following syntax, where Grid_home is the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, and filename is the response file name:
$ cd /u01/app/grid/crs/config/
$ ./config.sh -responseFile /u01/app/grid/response/response_file.rsp
4.4 Restrictions for Oracle Berkeley DB
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index.html
4.5 Confirming Oracle Clusterware Function
root, and use the following command syntax on each node to confirm that your Oracle Clusterware installation is installed and running correctly:
$ crsctl check crs
CRS-4638: Oracle High Availability Services is online
CRS-4537: Cluster Ready Services is online
CRS-4529: Cluster Synchronization Services is online
CRS-4533: Event Manager is online
4.6 Confirming Oracle ASM Function for Oracle Clusterware Files
$ srvctl status asm
ASM is running on node1,node2
srvctl binary in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home for a cluster (Grid home). If you have Oracle Real Application Clusters or Oracle Database installed, then you cannot use the srvctl binary in the database home to manage Oracle ASM or Oracle Net.
4.7 Confirming Oracle Clusterware Function
root, and use the following command syntax on each node to confirm that your Oracle Clusterware installation is installed and running correctly:
$ crsctl check crs
CRS-4638: Oracle High Availability Services is online
CRS-4537: Cluster Ready Services is online
CRS-4529: Cluster Synchronization Services is online
CRS-4533: Event Manager is online
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5.1 Required Postinstallation Tasks
dd command was a required postinstallation task. With Oracle Clusterware release 11.2 and later, backing up and restoring a voting disk using the dd command may result in the loss of the voting disk, so this procedure is not supported.
5.1.1 Download and Install Patch Updates
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$ORACLE_HOME/bin directory.
5.2 Recommended Postinstallation Tasks
5.2.1 Back Up the root.sh Script
root.sh script after you complete an installation. If you install other products in the same Oracle home directory, then the installer updates the contents of the existing root.sh script during the installation. If you require information contained in the original root.sh script, then you can recover it from the root.sh file copy.
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
init.ora file, all RMAN backups, archive logs, control file automatic backups, and database copies are written to the Fast Recovery Area. RMAN automatically manages files in the Fast Recovery Area by deleting obsolete backups and archive files no longer required for recovery.
5.2.3.2 Creating the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
$ cd /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin
$ ./asmca
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
Grid_home/bin/crsctl with the following command syntax, where nodes is a space-delimited list of one or more nodes in the cluster whose configuration you want to pin:
crsctl pin css -n nodes
node3 and node4, log in as root and enter the following command:
$ crsctl pin css -n node3 node4
Grid_home/bin/olsnodes with the following command syntax:
olsnodes -t -n
# /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/olsnodes -t -n
node1 1 Pinned
node2 2 Pinned
node3 3 Pinned
node4 4 Pinned
olsnodes -t -n node3
# /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/olsnodes -t -n node3
node3 3 Pinned
5.3.4 Enabling The Global Services Daemon (GSD) for Oracle Database Release 9.2
srvctl enable nodeapps -g
srvctl start nodeapps
5.3.5 Using the Correct LSNRCTL Commands
lsnrctl command, set your $ORACLE_HOME environment variable to the path for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home (Grid home). Do not attempt to use the lsnrctl commands from Oracle home locations for previous releases, as they cannot be used with the new release.
5.4 Modifying Oracle Clusterware Binaries After Installation
rootcrs.pl -unlock -crshome Grid_home, where Grid_home is the path to your Grid infrastructure home. For example, with the Grid home /u01/app/11.2.0/grid, enter the following command:
# cd /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/crs/install
# perl rootcrs.pl -unlock -crshome /u01/app/11.2.0/grid
grid, $ORACLE_HOME is set to the Grid home, and where you are updating the interconnect protocol from UDP to IPC, enter the following command:
# su grid
$ make -f $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/ins_rdbms.mk ipc_rds ioracle
Grid_home/bin/relink.
# perl rootcrs.pl -patch
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A.1 General Installation Issues
Cause: There is an entry in
/etc/oratab pointing to a non-existent Oracle home. The OUI log file should show the following error: "java.io.IOException: /home/oracle/OraHome//bin/kfod: not found"Action: Remove the entry in
/etc/oratab pointing to a non-existing Oracle home.
Cause: Either the DISPLAY variable is not set, or the user running the installation is not authorized to open an X window. This can occur if you run the installation from a remote terminal, or if you use an
su command to change from a user that is authorized to open an X window to a user account that is not authorized to open an X window on the display, such as a lower-privileged user opening windows on the root user's console display.Action: Run the command
echo $DISPLAY to ensure that the variable is set to the correct visual or to the correct host. If the display variable is set correctly then either ensure that you are logged in as the user authorized to open an X window, or run the command xhost + to allow any user to open an X window.
root, and used the su - command to change to the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner, then log out of the server, and log back in as the grid installation owner.
Cause: Installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure fails when you run
root.sh. Oracle Grid Infrastructure fails to start because the local host entry is missing from the hosts file.
[/oracle/app/grid/bin/orarootagent.bin(11392)]CRS-5823:Could not initialize
agent framework. Details at (:CRSAGF00120:) in
/oracle/app/grid/log/node01/agent/crsd/orarootagent_root/orarootagent_root.log
2010-10-04 12:46:25.857
[ohasd(2401)]CRS-2765:Resource 'ora.crsd' has failed on server 'node01'.
crsdOUT.log file, and finding the following:
Unable to resolve address for localhost:2016
ONS runtime exiting
Fatal error: eONS: eonsapi.c: Aug 6 2009 02:53:02
Action: Add the localhost entry in the hosts file.
Cause: These are typical of X Window display errors on Windows or UNIX systems, where xhost is not properly configured, or where you are running as a user account that is different from the account you used with the startx command to start the X server.
Action: In a local terminal window, log in as the user that started the X Window session, and enter the following command:
$ xhost somehost.example.com
workstation_name is the host name or IP address of your workstation.
$ DISPLAY=workstation_name:0.0
$ export DISPLAY
$ xclock
Cause: Oracle Grid Infrastructure is either not installed, or the Oracle Grid Infrastructure services are not up and running.
Action: Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure, or review the status of your Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation. Consider restarting the nodes, as doing so may resolve the problem.
Cause: Unavailable IP host
Action: Attempt the following:
ifconfig -a. Compare the output of this command with the contents of the /etc/hosts file to ensure that the node IP is listed.nslookup to see if the host is reachable.oracle user, attempt to connect to the node with ssh or rsh. If you are prompted for a password, then user equivalence is not set up properly.
Cause: Insufficient space in an existing Oracle Cluster Registry device partition, which causes a migration failure while running
rootupgrade.sh. To confirm, look for the error "utopen:12:Not enough space in the backing store" in the log file Grid_home /log/hostname/client/ocrconfig_pid.log.Action: Identify a storage device that has 280 MB or more available space. Locate the existing raw device name from
/var/opt/oracle/srvConfig.loc, and copy the contents of this raw device to the new device using the command dd.
Cause: PRVE-0038: The SSH LoginGraceTime setting on node "nodename" may result in users being disconnected before login is completed. This error occurs because the default timeout value for SSH connections on AIX is too low, if the LoginGraceTime parameter is commented out.
Action: Oracle recommends uncommenting the LoginGraceTime parameter in the OpenSSH configuration file
/etc/ssh/sshd_config, and setting it to a value of 0 (unlimited).
Cause: One or more nodes has a different clock time than the local node. If this is the case, then you may see output similar to the following:
time stamp 2005-04-04 14:49:49 is 106 s in the future
Action: Ensure that all member nodes of the cluster have the same clock time.
Cause: If a configuration issue prevents the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software from installing successfully on all nodes, then you may see error messages such as "Timed out waiting for the CRS stack to start," or you may notice that Oracle Grid Infrastructure-managed resources were not create on some nodes after you exit the installer. You also may notice that resources have a status other than ONLINE.
Action: Deconfigure the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation without removing binaries, and review log files to determine the cause of the configuration issue. After you have fixed the configuration issue, rerun the scripts used during installation to configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure.
A.2 Interpreting CVU "Unknown" Output Messages Using Verbose Mode
-verbose argument, and a Cluster Verification Utility command responds with UNKNOWN for a particular node, then this is because Cluster Verification Utility cannot determine if a check passed or failed. The following is a list of possible causes for an "Unknown" response:/bin directory in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home or Oracle home directory
A.3 Interpreting CVU Messages About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Setup
Cause: Failure to establish user equivalency across all nodes. This can be due to not creating the required users, or failing to complete secure shell (SSH) configuration properly.
Action: Cluster Verification Utility provides a list of nodes on which user equivalence failed.
oracle, use the command su - oracle and check user equivalence manually by running the ssh command on the local node with the date command argument using the following syntax:
$ ssh nodename date
nodename. If you are prompted for a password, then you need to configure SSH. If ssh is in the default location, the /usr/bin directory, then use ssh to configure user equivalence. You can also use rsh to confirm user equivalence.
The authenticity of host 'node1 (140.87.152.153)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 7z:ez:e7:f6:f4:f2:4f:8f:9z:79:85:62:20:90:92:z9.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
ssh is in a location other than the default, /usr/bin, then Cluster Verification Utility reports a user equivalence check failure. To avoid this error, navigate to the directory Grid_home/cv/admin, open the file cvu_config with a text editor, and add or update the key ORACLE_SRVM_REMOTESHELL to indicate the ssh path location on your system. For example:
# Locations for ssh and scp commands
ORACLE_SRVM_REMOTESHELL=/usr/local/bin/ssh
ORACLE_SRVM_REMOTECOPY=/usr/local/bin/scp
cvu_config file:ssh is in another location than the default, you also need to start OUI with additional arguments to specify a different location for the remote shell and remote copy commands. Enter runInstaller -help to obtain information about how to use these arguments.
ssh or rsh commands, including any login or other shell scripts they start, you may see errors about invalid arguments or standard input if the scripts generate any output. You should correct the cause of these errors.
oracle user's login scripts that generate output when you run ssh or rsh commands.
stty: standard input: Invalid argument
stty: standard input: Invalid argument
.bashrc or .cshrc) contain stty commands. If you see these errors, then refer to Section 2.13.5, "Preventing Installation Errors Caused by Terminal Output Commands" to correct the cause of these errors.
Cause: One or more nodes in the cluster cannot be reached using TCP/IP protocol, through either the public or private interconnects.
Action: Use the command
/bin/ping address to check each node address. When you find an address that cannot be reached, check your list of public and private addresses to make sure that you have them correctly configured. If you use third-party vendor clusterware, then refer to the vendor documentation for assistance. Ensure that the public and private network interfaces have the same interface names on each node of your cluster.
Cause: The administrative privileges for users and groups required for installation are missing or incorrect.
Action: Use the
id command on each node to confirm that the installation owner user (for example, grid or oracle) is created with the correct group membership. Ensure that you have created the required groups, and create or modify the user account on affected nodes to establish required group membership.
A.4 About the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Alert Log
CRS-1604 error is raised, and a critical alert is posted on the Cluster Home page. You can customize the error detection and alert settings on the Metric and Policy Settings page.CRS_home/log/hostname/alerthostname.log, where CRS_home is the directory in which Oracle Grid Infrastructure was installed and hostname is the host name of the local node.
A.5 Troubleshooting Issues on AIX
Cause: The Verified OS is on supported level:
/bin/oslevel
6.1.4.0
/bin/oslevel -s
6100-04-01-0944
/bin/oslevel should be 6.1.0.0.Action: Install AIX patch IZ64508 to fix the oslevel bug.
A.6 Performing Cluster Diagnostics During Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installations
olsnodes -v command from the binary directory in your Oracle Grid Infrastructure home (Grid_home/bin on Linux and UNIX-based systems, and Grid_home\BIN on Windows-based systems) and analyzing its output. Refer to your clusterware documentation if the detailed output indicates that your clusterware is not running.
cluvfy comp clumgr -n node_list -verbose
node_list is the list of nodes in your cluster, separated by commas.
A.7 About Using CVU Cluster Healthchecks After Installation
$ cd /home/grid/cvu_home/bin
$ ./cluvfy comp healthcheck -collect cluster -bestpractice -deviations -html
-collect [cluster|database]-db db_unique_namedb flag.cvusys to verify various database parameters. For this reason, if you want checks to be performed for the database you specify with the -db flag, then you must first create the cvusys user on that database, and grant that user the CVU-specific role, cvusapp. You must also grant mT&embers of the cvusapp role select permissions on system tables./cv/admin/cvusys.sql to facilitate the creation of this user. Use this SQL script to create the cvusys user on all the databases that you want to verify using CVU.db flag but do not provide a database unique name, then CVU discovers all the Oracle Databases on the cluster. If you want to perform best practices checks on these databases, then you must create the cvusys user on each database, and grant that user the cvusapp role with the select privileges needed to perform the best practice checks.[-bestpractice | -mandatory] [-deviations]bestpractice flag to specify best practice checks, and the mandatory flag to specify mandatory checks. Add the deviations flag to specify that you want to see only the deviations from either the best practice recommendations or the mandatory requirements. You can specify either the -bestpractice or -mandatory flag, but not both flags. If you specify neither -bestpractice or -mandatory, then both best practices and mandatory requirements are displayed.-htmlhtml flag to generate a detailed report in HTML format.html flag, and a browser CVU recognizes is available on the system, then the browser is started and the report is displayed on the browser when the checks are complete.-save [-savedir dir_path]save or -save -savedir flags to save validation reports (cvuchecdkreport_timestamp.txt and cvucheckreport_timestamp.htm), where timestamp is the time and date of the validation report.save flag by itself, then the reports are saved in the path CVU_home/cv/report, where CVU_home is the location of the CVU binaries.-save -savedir, and enter a path where you want the CVU reports saved, then the CVU reports are saved in the path you specify.
A.8 Interconnect Configuration Issues
A.9 SCAN VIP and SCAN Listener Issues
/etc/resolv.conf - verify the contents are the same on each nodenslookup scan-name; this command should return the DNS server name and the three IP addresses configured for the SCAN.ping command to test the IP addresses assigned to the SCAN; you should receive a response for each IP address.
/etc/hosts file on each node. However, using the /etc/hosts file to resolve the SCAN results in having only one SCAN available for the entire cluster instead of three. Only the first entry for SCAN in the hosts file is used.
A.10 Storage Configuration Issues
A.10.1 Recovery from Losing a Node Filesystem or Grid Home
lostnode is the node that you are adding back to the cluster:
$ ./addNode.sh -silent "CLUSTER_NEW_NODES=lostnode"
$ ./addNode.sh -silent "CLUSTER_NEW_NODES={lostnode}" "CLUSTER_NEW_VIRTUAL_HOSTNAMES={lostnode-vip}"
The file "dbhome" already exists in /usr/local/bin. Overwrite it? (y/n) [n]:
The file "oraenv" already exists in /usr/local/bin. Overwrite it? (y/n) [n]:
The file "coraenv" already exists in /usr/local/bin. Overwrite it? (y/n) [n]:
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3 Configuring Storage for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)
3.1 Reviewing Oracle Grid Infrastructure Storage Options
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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
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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
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File Types Stored Number of Volumes Volume Size
File Types Stored Number of Volumes Volume Size
fdisk by specifying a device size, such as +300M, the actual device created may be smaller than the size requested, based on the cylinder geometry of the disk. This is due to current fdisk restrictions. Oracle recommends that you partition the entire disk that you allocate for use by Oracle ASM.
3.2.2 Deciding to Use a Cluster File System for Oracle Clusterware Files
3.2.3 Deciding to Use Direct NFS for Data Files
3.2.3.1 About Direct NFS Storage
3.2.3.2 Using the Oranfstab File with Direct NFS
oranfstab, to specify additional options specific for Oracle Database to Direct NFS. For example, you can use oranfstab to specify additional paths for a mount point. You can add the oranfstab file either to /etc or to $ORACLE_HOME/dbs.oranfstab file is placed in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs, the entries in the file are specific to a single database. In this case, all nodes running an Oracle RAC database use the same $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/oranfstab file. In non-shared Oracle RAC installs, oranfstab must be replicated on all nodes.oranfstab file is placed in /etc, then it is globally available to all Oracle databases, and can contain mount points used by all Oracle databases running on nodes in the cluster, including standalone databases. However, on Oracle RAC systems, if the oranfstab file is placed in /etc, then you must replicate the file /etc/oranfstab file on all nodes, and keep each /etc/oranfstab file synchronized on all nodes, just as you must with the /etc/fstab file.
/etc/fstab
3.2.3.3 Mounting NFS Storage Devices with Direct NFS
/etc/mtab, which are changed with configuring the /etc/fstab file.$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/oranfstab/etc/oranfstab/etc/mtab$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib.
make -f ins_rdbms.mk dnfs_on
oranfstab, then it first verifies kernel NFS mounts by cross-checking entries in oranfstab with operating system NFS mount points. If a mismatch exists, then Direct NFS logs an informational message, and does not operate.
3.2.3.4 Specifying Network Paths with the Oranfstab File
oranfstab file for an NFS server. The Direct NFS client performs load balancing across all specified paths. If a specified path fails, then Direct NFS reissues I/O commands over any remaining paths.
v$ views for single instances, and gv$ views for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC storage.
3.2.4 Deciding to Use NFS for Data Files
3.2.5 Configuring Storage NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters
root on the clients mounting to the storage to be considered root instead of being mapped to an anonymous user, and allow root on the client server to create files on the NFS filesystem that are owned by root.rsize and wsize to 32768. The NFS mount options for binaries are:
rw,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,proto=tcp,vers=3,timeo=600
cio,rw,bg,hard,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,noac,vers=3,timeo=600
cio,rw,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,proto=tcp,noac,vers=3,timeo=600
/etc/filesystems file on each node with entries similar to the following:
/NFS_mount:
dev = "/vol/gridhome"
vfs = nfs
nodename = /vol/gridhome
mount = true
options = rw,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,proto=tcp,vers=3,timeo=600
account = false
/NFS_mount:
dev = "/vol/CWfiles"
vfs = nfs
nodename = /vol/CWfiles
mount = true
options = cio,rw,bg,hard,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,noac,vers=3,timeo=600
account = false
/NFS_mount:
dev = "/vol/datafiles"
vfs = nfs
nodename = /u02/app/oracle/data
mount = true
options = cio,rw,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,proto=tcp,noac,vers=3,timeo=600
account = false
nfs_server:/vol/grid /u01/oracle/grid nfs -yes
rw,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,proto=tcp,vers=3,timeo=600
root access for clients writing to the storage by enabling no_root_squash on the server side. For example, to set up Oracle Clusterware file storage in the path /vol/grid, with nodes node1, node 2, and node3 in the domain mycluster.example.com, add a line similar to the following to the /etc/exports file:
/vol/grid/ node1.mycluster.example.com(rw,no_root_squash)
node2.mycluster.example.com(rw,no_root_squash) node3.mycluster.example.com
(rw,no_root_squash)
root access by domain, rather than specifying particular cluster member nodes:
/vol/grid/ *.mycluster.example.com(rw,no_root_squash)
root access to cluster member nodes using the domain, as using this syntax allows you to add or remove nodes without the need to reconfigure the NFS server.
root access by domain can be used to obtain unauthorized access to systems. System administrators should refer to their operating system documentation for the risks associated with using no_root_squash./etc/exports, reload the file system mount using the following command:
# /usr/sbin/exportfs -avr
3.2.6 Enabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Manager Control of NFS
oranfstab file with the following attributes for each NFS server to be accessed using Direct NFS:ifconfig command run on the database host.ifconfig command on the NFS server.600).oranfstab. A single oranfstab can have multiple NFS server entries.
dontroute.
server: MyDataServer1
local: 192.0.2.0
path: 192.0.2.1
local: 192.0.100.0
path: 192.0.100.1
export: /vol/oradata1 mount: /mnt/oradata1
dontroute is specified in this case:
server: MyDataServer2
local: 192.0.2.0
path: 192.0.2.128
local: 192.0.2.1
path: 192.0.2.129
dontroute
export: /vol/oradata2 mount: /mnt/oradata2
server: MyDataServer3
local: LocalPath1
path: NfsPath1
local: LocalPath2
path: NfsPath2
local: LocalPath3
path: NfsPath3
local: LocalPath4
path: NfsPath4
dontroute
export: /vol/oradata3 mount: /mnt/oradata3
export: /vol/oradata4 mount: /mnt/oradata4
export: /vol/oradata5 mount: /mnt/oradata5
export: /vol/oradata6 mount: /mnt/oradata6
Grid_home/rdbms/lib.
$ make -f ins_rdbms.mk dnfs_on
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
clcomdES daemon is running:
# lssrc -s clcomdES
# startsrc –s clcomdES
# smitty cm_add_change_show_an_hacmp_cluster.dialog
* Cluster Name [mycluster]
# smitty cm_add_a_node_to_the_hacmp_cluster_dialog
* Node Name [mycluster_node1]
Communication Path to Node []
# smitty cm_add_a_network_to_the_hacmp_cluster_select
- select ether network
* Network Name [my_network_name]
* Network Type ether
* Netmask [my.network.netmask.here]
* Enable IP Address Takeover via IP Aliases [No]
IP Address Offset for Heart beating over IP Aliases []
# smitty cm_add_communication_interfaces_devices.select
- select: Add Pre-defined Communication Interfaces and Devices / Communication Interfaces / desired network
* IP Label/Address [node_ip_address]
* Network Type ether
* Network Name some_network_name
* Node Name [my_node_name]
Network Interface []
# smitty config_resource_group.dialog.custom
* Resource Group Name [my_resource_group_name]
* Participating Nodes (Default Node Priority) [mynode1,mynode2,mynode3]
Startup Policy Online On All Available Nodes
Fallover Policy Bring Offline (On Error Node Only)
Fallback Policy Never Fallback
smitty mkvg, or using command lines. The VG must contain at least one hard disk for each voting disk. You must configure at least three voting disks.
# smitty _mksvg
VOLUME GROUP name [my_vg_name] PP SIZE in MB
* PHYSICAL VOLUME names [mydisk1,mydisk2,mydisk3]
Force the creation of a volume group? no
Activate volume group AUTOMATICALLY no at system restart?
Volume Group MAJOR NUMBER []
Create VG Concurrent Capable? enhanced concurrent
Max PPs per VG in kilobytes default
Max Logical Volumes default
# smitty cm_change_show_resources_std_resource_group_menu_dmn.select
- select_resource_group_from_step_6
Resource Group Name shared_storage
Participating Nodes (Default Node Priority) mynode1,mynode2,mynode3
Startup Policy Online On All Available Nodes
Fallover Policy Bring Offline (On Error Node Only)
Fallback Policy Never Fallback
Concurrent Volume Groups [enter_VG_from_step_7]
Use forced varyon of volume groups, if necessary false
Application Servers []
# smitty cl_add_mndhb_lv
- select_resource_group_defined_in_step_6
* Physical Volume name enter F4, then select a hard disk
Logical Volume Name []
Logical Volume Label []
Volume Group name ccvg
Resource Group Name shared_storage
Network Name [n]
# smitty cl_set_mndhb_response
- select_the_VG_created_in_step_7
On loss of access Halt the node
Optional notification method []
Volume Group ccvg
# smitty cm_initialization_and_standard_config_menu_dmn
- select "Verify and Synchronize HACMP Configuration"
/usr/es/sbin/cluster/etc/rhosts.
3.2.7.3 Upgrading an Existing Oracle Clusterware and HACMP Installation
# crsctl disable crs
# smitty cl_add_mndhb_lv
- Select_resource_group
* Physical Volume name Enter F4, then select disk for the MNDHB and Voting Disk pair
Logical Volume Name []
Logical Volume Label []
Volume Group name ccvg
Resource Group Name shared_storage
Network Name [net_diskhbmulti_01]
# crsctl enable crs
3.2.8 Configuring Raw Logical Volumes for Oracle Clusterware
3.2.9 Configuring New Oracle Clusterware Volume Group Raw Logical Volumes
smit mklv to create raw logical volumes.ocr volume group in the SYSAUX tablespace with a physical partition size of 114 MB (1792/7 = 256):
# /usr/sbin/mklv -y test_sysaux_raw_1792m -T O -w n -s n -r n ocr 7
root. All other device files must be owned by the Oracle software owner user (oracle).
# chown oracle:dba /dev/rora_vote_raw_280m
# chmod 660 /dev/rora_vote_raw_280m
# chown root:oinstall /dev/rora_ocr_raw_280m
# chmod 640 /dev/rora_ocr_raw_280m
3.2.10 Creating a Volume Group for Database Files
# /usr/sbin/lsdev -Cc disk
hdisk0 Available 1A-09-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk1 Available 1A-09-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk2 Available 17-08-L SSA Logical Disk Drive
# /usr/sbin/cfgmgr
# /usr/sbin/lspv
hdisk0 0000078752249812 rootvg
hdisk1 none none
hdisk4 00034b6fd4ac1d71 ccvg1
nonenone
# /usr/sbin/chdev -l hdiskn -a pv=yes
# ls -la /dev | more
crw-rw---- 1 root system 45, 0 Jul 19 11:56 vg1
vg1 volume group device.smit mkvg):
# /usr/sbin/mkvg -y VGname -B -s PPsize -V majornum -n \
-C PhysicalVolumes
mkvg man page for more information about these options.
Command Option SMIT Field Sample Value and Description
-y VGname
VOLUME GROUP name
oracle_vg1
Specify the name for the volume group. The name that you specify could be a generic name, as shown, or it could specify the name of the database that you intend to create.
-y VGname
VOLUME GROUP name
oracle_vg1
Specify the name for the volume group. The name that you specify could be a generic name, as shown, or for a database volume group, it could specify the name of the database that you intend to create.
-B
Create a big VG format Volume Group Specify this option to create a big VG format volume group.
-s PPsize
Physical partition SIZE in megabytes
32
Specify the size of the physical partitions for the database. The sample value shown enables you to include a disk up to 32 GB in size (32 MB * 1016).
-V Majornum
Volume Group MAJOR NUMBER
46
Specify the device major number for the volume group that you identified in Step 7.
-n
Activate volume group AUTOMATICALLY at system restart Specify this option to prevent the volume group from being activated at system restart.
-C
Create VG Concurrent Capable Specify this option to create a concurrent capable volume group.
PhysicalVolumes
PHYSICAL VOLUME names
hdisk3 hdisk4
Specify the device names of the disks that you want to add to the volume group.
# /usr/sbin/varyonvg VGname
3.2.11 Creating a Volume Group for Oracle Clusterware
# /usr/sbin/lsdev -Cc disk
hdisk0 Available 1A-09-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk1 Available 1A-09-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk2 Available 17-08-L SSA Logical Disk Drive
# /usr/sbin/cfgmgr
# /usr/sbin/lspv
hdisk0 0000078752249812 rootvg
hdisk1 none none
hdisk4 00034b6fd4ac1d71 ccvg1
nonenone
# /usr/sbin/chdev -l hdiskn -a pv=yes
# ls -la /dev | more
crw-rw---- 1 root system 45, 0 Jul 19 11:56 vg1
vg1 volume group device.smit mkvg):
# /usr/sbin/mkvg -y VGname -B -s PPsize -V majornum -n \
-C PhysicalVolumes
mkvg man page for more information about these options.
Command Option SMIT Field Sample Value and Description
-y VGname
VOLUME GROUP name
oracle_vg1
Specify the name for the volume group. The name that you specify could be a generic name, as shown, or it could specify the name of the database that you intend to create.
-y VGname
VOLUME GROUP name
oracle_vg1
Specify the name for the volume group. The name that you specify could be a generic name, as shown, or for a database volume group, it could specify the name of the database that you intend to create.
-B
Create a big VG format Volume Group Specify this option to create a big VG format volume group.
-s PPsize
Physical partition SIZE in megabytes
32
Specify the size of the physical partitions for the database. The sample value shown enables you to include a disk up to 32 GB in size (32 MB * 1016).
-V Majornum
Volume Group MAJOR NUMBER
46
Specify the device major number for the volume group that you identified in Step 7.
-n
Activate volume group AUTOMATICALLY at system restart Specify this option to prevent the volume group from being activated at system restart.
-C
Create VG Concurrent Capable Specify this option to create a concurrent capable volume group.
PhysicalVolumes
PHYSICAL VOLUME names
hdisk3 hdisk4
Specify the device names of the disks that you want to add to the volume group.
# /usr/sbin/varyonvg VGname
3.2.12 Importing the Volume Group on the Other Cluster Nodes
# /usr/sbin/lspv
# /usr/sbin/varyoffvg VGname
# /usr/sbin/lspv
# /usr/sbin/importvg -y VGname -V MajorNumber PhysicalVolume
MajorNumber is the device major number for the volume group and PhysicalVolume is the name of one of the physical volumes in the volume group.oracle_vg1 volume group with device major number 45 on the hdisk3 and hdisk4 physical volumes, enter the following command:
# /usr/sbin/importvg -y oracle_vg1 -V 45 hdisk3
# chown oracle:dba /dev/rora_vote_raw_280m
# chmod 660 /dev/rora_vote_raw_280m
# chown root:oinstall /dev/rora_ocr_raw_280m
# chmod 640 /dev/rora_ocr_raw_280m
# /usr/sbin/chvg -a n VGname
3.2.13 Activating the Volume Group in Concurrent Mode on All Cluster Nodes
# /usr/sbin/varyonvg -c VGname
3.2 .14 Creating Directories for Oracle Clusterware Files on Shared File Systems
df -k command to determine the free disk space on each mounted file system.
File Type File System Requirements Oracle Clusterware files Choose a file system with at least 600 MB of free disk space (one OCR and one voting disk, with external redundancy). Database files Choose either:
Recovery files Choose a file system with at least 2 GB of free disk space.
df command to determine the free disk space on each mounted file system.
grid or oracle) has permissions to create directories on the storage location where you plan to install Oracle Clusterware files, then OUI creates the Oracle Clusterware file directory.oracle, and the Oracle Clusterware file storage area is cluster:
# mkdir /mount_point/cluster
# chown oracle:oinstall /mount_point/cluster
# chmod 775 /mount_point/cluster
root, and not writable by any account other than root.
3.2.15 Creating Directories for Oracle Database Files on Shared File Systems
df -k command to determine the free disk space on each mounted file system.
File Type File System Requirements Database files Choose either:
Recovery files Choose a file system with at least 2 GB of free disk space. oracle) has permissions to create directories on the disks where you plan to install Oracle Database, then DBCA creates the Oracle Database file directory, and the Recovery file directory.
# mkdir /mount_point/oradata
# chown oracle:oinstall /mount_point/oradata
# chmod 775 /mount_point/oradata
# mkdir /mount_point/fast_recovery_area
# chown oracle:oinstall /mount_point/fast_recovery_area
# chmod 775 /mount_point/fast_recovery_area
oinstall group owners of these directories, this permits them to be read by multiple Oracle homes, including those with different OSDBA groups.
3.2.16 Disabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Management Control of NFS
Grid_home is the path to the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home:
$ cd Grid_home/rdbms/lib
$ make -f ins_rdbms.mk dnfs_off
oranfstab file.
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
Redundancy Level Minimum Number of Disks Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) Files Voting Disk Files Both File Types
asmcmd, or SQL commands.
3.3.1.2 Creating Files on a NAS Device for Use with Oracle ASM
root.
# mkdir -p /mnt/asm
/etc/vfstab.
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man pages. For more information about recommended mount options, refer to the section Section 3.2.5, "Configuring Storage NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters".
# mount /mnt/asm
sales1.
# mkdir /mnt/asm/nfsdg
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/asm/nfsdg/disk1 bs=1024k count=1000
grid, and the OSASM group is asmadmin:
# chown -R grid:asmadmin /mnt/asm
# chmod -R 660 /mnt/asm
/mnt/asm/sales1/
3.3.2 Using an Existing Oracle ASM Disk Group
asmcmd), Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control or Database Control. Alternatively, you can use the following procedure:oratab file to determine if an Oracle ASM instance is configured on the system:
$ more /etc/oratab
oratab file should contain a line similar to the following:
+ASM2:oracle_home_path
+ASM2 is the system identifier (SID) of the Oracle ASM instance, with the node number appended, and oracle_home_path is the Oracle home directory where it is installed. By convention, the SID for an Oracle ASM instance begins with a plus sign.ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME environment variables to specify the appropriate values for the Oracle ASM instance.
$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/asmcmd
ASMCMD> startup
ASMCMD> lsdb
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/asmcmd -p lsdg
3.3.3 Configuring Disk Devices for Oracle ASM
dmlf devices) for storage, then ASM instances do not automatically discover the physical disks, but instead discover only the logical volume manager (LVM) disks. This is because the physical disks can only be opened by programs running as root.
/dev/rdlmfdrv8
/dev/rdlmfdrv9
root user, enter the following command on any node to identify the device names for the disk devices that you want to use:
# /usr/sbin/lspv | grep -i none
hdisk17 0009005fb9c23648 None
hdisk17 is the device name of the disk and 0009005fb9c23648 is the physical volume ID (PVID).n is the number of the hdisk:
# chdev -l hdiskn -a pv=yes
chdev overwrites the existing PVID. Be aware that if you have applications depending on the previous PVID, then they will fail.
# /usr/sbin/lspv | grep -i "0009005fb9c23648"
hdisk18 0009005fb9c23648 None
hdisk18) is different on this node.grid is the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner, and asmadmin is the OSASM group:
# chown grid:asmadmin /dev/rhdiskn
# chmod 660 /dev/rhdiskn
# lsattr -E -l hdiskn | grep reserve_
reserve_lock setting, or a reserve_policy setting. If the attribute is reserve_lock, then ensure that the setting is reserve_lock = no. If the attribute is reserve_policy, then ensure that the setting is reserve_policy = no_reserve.chdev command using the following syntax, where n is the hdisk device number:
chdev -l hdiskn -a [ reserve_lock=no | reserve_policy=no_reserve ]
hdisk4 from reserve_lock=yes to reserve_lock=no, enter the following command:
# chdev -l hdisk4 -a reserve_lock=no
# lsattr -El hdiskn | grep reserve
# /usr/sbin/chdev -l hdiskn -a pv=clear
/dev/rhdisk10
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
$ cd /u01/app/11.2.0/grid
/u02/acfsmounts/:
$ ls -l /u02/acfsmounts
./asmca
dbase_01/u02/acfsmounts/dbase_01oracle1dba1root). On an Oracle Clusterware environment, the script registers the ACFS as a resource managed by Oracle Clusterware. Registering ACFS as a resource helps Oracle Clusterware to mount the ACFS automatically in proper order when ACFS is used for an Oracle RAC database Home./u02/acfsmounts/dbase_01).
3.3.6 Upgrading Existing Oracle ASM Instances
Grid_home/bin) to upgrade the existing Oracle ASM instance to 11g release 2 (11.2), and subsequently configure failure groups, Oracle ASM volumes and Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS).
3.4 Desupport of Raw Disks