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Preface

• Intended Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation and Configuration?

• Desupported Options
• New Features for Release 2 (11.2)
• New Features for Release 1 (11.1)

1 Typical Installation for Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster

• 1.1 Typical and Advanced Installation
• 1.2 Preinstallation Steps Completed Using Typical Installation
• 1.3 Preinstallation Steps Requiring Manual Tasks
  • 1.3.1 Verify System Requirements
  • 1.3.2 Check Network Requirements
    • 1.3.2.1 Single Client Access Name (SCAN) for the Cluster
    • 1.3.2.2 IP Address Requirements
    • 1.3.2.3 Intended Use of Network Interfaces
  • 1.3.3 Check Operating System Packages
  • 1.3.4 Create Groups and Users
  • 1.3.5 Check Storage
  • 1.3.6 Prepare Storage for Automatic Storage Management
    • 1.3.6.1 Installing ASMLIB Packages Automatically with ULN
    • 1.3.6.2 Installing ASMLIB Packages Manually
    • 1.3.6.3 Mark ASM Candidate Disk Partitions
  • 1.3.7 Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software

2 Advanced Installation Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Preinstallation Tasks

• 2.1 Installing the Linux Operating System
  • 2.1.1 Completing a Minimal Linux Installation
  • 2.1.2 Completing a Default Linux Installation
  • 2.1.3 About the Oracle Validated Configuration RPM
  • 2.1.4 Installing the Oracle Validated Configuration RPM
• 2.2 Reviewing Upgrade Best Practices
• 2.3 Installation Fixup Scripts
• 2.4 Logging In to a Remote System Using X Terminal
• 2.5 Creating Groups, Users and Paths for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • 2.5.1 Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists
  • 2.5.2 Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist
  • 2.5.3 Creating the Oracle Grid Infrastructure User
    • 2.5.3.1 Understanding Restrictions for Oracle Software Installation Owners
    • 2.5.3.2 Determining if an Oracle Software Owner User Exists
    • 2.5.3.3 Creating or Modifying an Oracle Software Owner User for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • 2.5.4 Creating the Oracle Base Directory Path
  • 2.5.5 Creating Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and Users
    • 2.5.5.1 Overview of Creating Job Role Separation Groups and Users
    • 2.5.5.2 Creating Database Groups and Users with Job Role Separation
  • 2.5.6 Example of Creating Standard Groups, Users, and Paths
  • 2.5.7 Example of Creating Role-allocated Groups, Users, and Paths
• 2.6 Checking the Hardware Requirements
• 2.7 Checking the Network Requirements
  • 2.7.1 Network Hardware Requirements
  • 2.7.2 IP Address Requirements
    • 2.7.2.1 IP Address Requirements with Grid Naming Service
    • 2.7.2.2 IP Address Requirements for Manual Configuration
  • 2.7.3 DNS Configuration for Domain Delegation to Grid Naming Service
  • 2.7.4 Grid Naming Service Configuration Example
  • 2.7.5 Manual IP Address Configuration Example
  • 2.7.6 Network Interface Configuration Options
  • 2.7.7 Enabling the Name Service Cache Daemon
• 2.8 Identifying Software Requirements
  • 2.8.1 Software Requirements List for x86 (32-bit) Linux Platforms
  • 2.8.2 Software Requirements List for x86-64 Linux Platforms
• 2.9 Checking the Software Requirements
• 2.10 Network Time Protocol Setting
• 2.11 Installing the cvuqdisk Package for Linux
• 2.12 Enabling Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
  • 2.12.1 Requirements for Enabling IPMI
  • 2.12.2 Configuring the IPMI Management Network
  • 2.12.3 Configuring the IPMI Driver
    • 2.12.3.1 Configuring the Open IPMI Driver
    • 2.12.3.2 Configuring the BMC
• 2.13 Automatic SSH Configuration During Installation
• 2.14 Configuring Grid Infrastructure Software Owner User Environments
  • 2.14.1 Environment Requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Owner
  • 2.14.2 Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments
  • 2.14.3 Setting Resource Limits for the Oracle Software Installation Users
  • 2.14.4 Setting Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration
  • 2.14.5 Preventing Installation Errors Caused by stty Commands
• 2.15 Requirements for Creating an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Directory

3 Configuring Storage for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)

• 3.1 Reviewing Oracle Grid Infrastructure Storage Options
  • 3.1.1 Overview of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC Storage Options
  • 3.1.2 General Storage Considerations for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
    • 3.1.2.1 General Storage Considerations for Oracle Clusterware
    • 3.1.2.2 General Storage Considerations for Oracle RAC
  • 3.1.3 Supported Storage Options
  • 3.1.4 After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
• 3.2 Shared File System Storage Configuration
  • 3.2.1 Requirements for Using a Shared File System
  • 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
    • 3.2.3.3 Mounting NFS Storage Devices with Direct NFS
    • 3.2.3.4 Specifying Network Paths with the Oranfstab File
  • 3.2.4 Deciding to Use NFS for Data Files
  • 3.2.5 Configuring Storage NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters
  • 3.2.6 Checking NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters for Oracle Clusterware
  • 3.2.7 Checking NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters for Oracle RAC
  • 3.2.8 Enabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Manager Control of NFS
  • 3.2.9 Creating Directories for Oracle Clusterware Files on Shared File Systems
  • 3.2.10 Creating Directories for Oracle Database Files on Shared File Systems
  • 3.2.11 Disabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Management Control of NFS
• 3.3 Automatic Storage Management Storage Configuration
  • 3.3.1 Configuring Storage for Automatic Storage Management
    • 3.3.1.1 Identifying Storage Requirements for Automatic Storage Management
    • 3.3.1.2 Creating Files on a NAS Device for Use with Automatic Storage Management
    • 3.3.1.3 Using an Existing Automatic Storage Management Disk Group
    • 3.3.1.4 Configuring Disks for Automatic Storage Management with ASMLIB
    • 3.3.1.5 Configuring Disk Devices Manually for Oracle ASM
  • 3.3.2 Using Diskgroups with Oracle Database Files on ASM
    • 3.3.2.1 Identifying and Using Existing Oracle Database Diskgroups on ASM
    • 3.3.2.2 Creating Diskgroups for Oracle Database Data Files
  • 3.3.3 Configuring Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (ACFS)
  • 3.3.4 Migrating Existing Oracle ASM Instances
  • 3.3.5 Converting Standalone Oracle ASM Installations to Clustered Installations
• 3.4 Desupport of Block and Raw Devices

4 Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster

• 4.1 Preparing to Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure with OUI
• 4.2 Installing Grid Infrastructure
  • 4.2.1 Running OUI to Install Grid Infrastructure
  • 4.2.2 Installing Grid Infrastructure Using a Cluster Configuration File
• 4.3 Installing Grid Infrastructure Using a Software-Only Installation
  • 4.3.1 Installing the Software Binaries
  • 4.3.2 Configuring the Software Binaries
• 4.4 Confirming Oracle Clusterware Function
• 4.5 Confirming Oracle ASM Function for Oracle Clusterware Files

5 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Postinstallation Procedures

• 5.1 Required Postinstallation Tasks
  • 5.1.1 Download and Install Patch Updates
• 5.2 Recommended Postinstallation Tasks
  • 5.2.1 Back Up the root.sh Script
  • 5.2.2 Install Cluster Health Management
    • 5.2.2.1 Installing Instantaneous Problem Detection OS Tool (IPD/OS)
    • 5.2.2.2 Installing OS Watcher and RACDDT
  • 5.2.3 Tune Semaphore Parameters
  • 5.2.4 Create a Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
    • 5.2.4.1 About the Fast Recovery Area and the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
    • 5.2.4.2 Creating the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
• 5.3 Using Older Oracle Database Versions with Grid Infrastructure
  • 5.3.1 General Restrictions for Using Older Oracle Database Versions
  • 5.3.2 Pinning Cluster Nodes for Oracle Database Release 10.x or 11.x
  • 5.3.3 Enabling The Global Services Daemon (GSD) for Oracle Database Release 9.2
  • 5.3.4 Using the Correct LSNRCTL Commands
• 5.4 Modifying Oracle Clusterware Binaries After Installation

6 How to Modify or Deinstall Oracle Grid Infrastructure

• 6.1 Deciding When to Deinstall Oracle Clusterware
• 6.2 Migrating From Oracle Restart to Oracle Clusterware
• 6.3 Adding Standalone Grid Infrastructure Servers to a Cluster
• 6.4 Relinking Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Binaries
• 6.5 Removing Oracle Database 11g
  • 6.5.1 About the Deinstallation Tool
  • 6.5.2 Example of Running the Deinstall Command for Oracle Clusterware and ASM
  • 6.5.3 Example of a Deinstallation Parameter File for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster

A Troubleshooting the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Process

• A.1 General Installation Issues
• A.2 Interpreting CVU "Unknown" Output Messages Using Verbose Mode
• A.3 Interpreting CVU Messages About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Setup
• A.4 About the Oracle Clusterware Alert Log
• A.5 Missing Operating System Packages On Linux
• A.6 Performing Cluster Diagnostics During Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installations
• A.7 Interconnect Configuration Issues

B Installing and Configuring Oracle Database Using Response Files

• B.1 How Response Files Work
  • B.1.1 Reasons for Using Silent Mode or Response File Mode
  • B.1.2 General Procedure for Using Response Files
• B.2 Creating the oraInst.loc File
• B.3 Preparing a Response File
  • B.3.1 Editing a Response File Template
  • B.3.2 Recording a Response File
• B.4 Running the Installer Using a Response File
• B.5 Running Net Configuration Assistant Using a Response File
• B.6 Running Database Configuration Assistants Using Response Files
  • B.6.1 About the Database Configuration Assistant in Response File Mode
  • B.6.2 Running Database Configuration Assistant in Response File or Silent Mode
• B.7 Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File
  • B.7.1 About the Postinstallation Configuration File
  • B.7.2 Running Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File

C Configuring Large Memory Optimization

• C.1 Overview of HugePages
  • C.1.1 What HugePages Provides
• C.2 Restrictions for HugePage Configurations

D Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Installation Concepts

• D.1 Understanding Preinstallation Configuration
  • D.1.1 Understanding Oracle Groups and Users
    • D.1.1.1 Understanding the Oracle Inventory Group
    • D.1.1.2 Understanding the Oracle Inventory Directory
  • D.1.2 Understanding the Oracle Base Directory Path
    • D.1.2.1 Overview of the Oracle Base directory
    • D.1.2.2 Understanding Oracle Base and Grid Infrastructure Directories
  • D.1.3 Understanding Network Addresses
    • D.1.3.1 About the Public IP Address
    • D.1.3.2 About the Private IP Address
    • D.1.3.3 About the Virtual IP Address
    • D.1.3.4 About the Grid Naming Service (GNS) Virtual IP Address
    • D.1.3.5 About the SCAN
  • D.1.4 Understanding Network Time Requirements
• D.2 Understanding Storage Configuration
  • D.2.1 Understanding Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (ACFS)
  • D.2.2 About Migrating Existing Oracle ASM Instances
  • D.2.3 About Converting Standalone Oracle ASM Installations to Clustered Installations
• D.3 Understanding Out-of-Place Upgrade

E How to Complete Installation Prerequisite Tasks Manually

• E.1 Configuring SSH Manually on All Cluster Nodes
  • E.1.1 Checking Existing SSH Configuration on the System
  • E.1.2 Configuring SSH on Cluster Nodes
    • E.1.2.1 Create SSH Directory, and Create SSH Keys On Each Node
    • E.1.2.2 Add All Keys to a Common authorized_keys File
  • E.1.3 Enabling SSH User Equivalency on Cluster Nodes
• E.2 Configuring Kernel Parameters
  • E.2.1 Minimum Parameter Settings for Installation
  • E.2.2 Additional Parameter and Kernel Settings for SUSE Linux
• E.3 Checking OCFS2 Version Manually

F How to Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2

• F.1 Back Up the Oracle Software Before Upgrades
• F.2 Restrictions for Clusterware and ASM Upgrades to Grid Infrastructure
• F.3 Verify System Readiness for Upgrades
• F.4 Upgrading an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
  • F.4.1 Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
• F.5 Performing Rolling Upgrades From an Earlier Release
  • F.5.1 Verify System Readiness for Upgrades
  • F.5.2 Performing a Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Clusterware
  • F.5.3 Performing a Rolling Upgrade of Automatic Storage Management
    • F.5.3.1 Preparing to Upgrade Oracle ASM
    • F.5.3.2 Upgrading Oracle ASM
• F.6 Updating DB Control and Grid Control Target Parameters
• F.7 Downgrading Oracle Clusterware After an Upgrade

Index