Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Standalone Server for an Existing Database

Follow the high-level instructions in this section to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server and configure it for an existing Oracle Database.

Oracle Restart 12c Release 2 (12.2) can only manage resources from the same release. For this reason, you can install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server to provide services only for Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2). However, previous release Oracle Databases can coexist on the same server without being managed by Oracle Restart.
To install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server for a database that is already installed:
  1. On the same host computer as the database, install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server, and select Configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Standalone Server (Oracle Restart) as the installation option. See, “Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Standalone Server with a New Database Installation” in Oracle Database Installation Guide.

    The Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server components are installed in an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Oracle home (Grid home), which is in a different location from existing Oracle Database homes.

  2. If you have an existing Oracle Database, then register it for High Availability with Oracle Restart using the srvctl command:

    $ cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
    $ srvctl add database -db dbname -o oracle_home_path -dbtype SINGLE