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Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in Oracle Clusterware Installation and Configuration?

• Changes in Installation Documentation
• Enhancements and New Features for Installation

1 Summary List: Installing Oracle Clusterware

• 1.1 Verify System Requirements
• 1.2 Check Network Requirements
• 1.3 Configure Users
• 1.4 Create Directories
• 1.5 Create Storage
  • 1.5.1 Create Disk Partitions for OCR and Voting Disk Files
  • 1.5.2 Create and Configure Disk Partitions for ASM
• 1.6 Verify Oracle Clusterware Requirements with CVU
• 1.7 Install Oracle Clusterware Software

2 Server and Network Preinstallation Tasks

• 2.1 Installation Differences Between Windows and Linux or UNIX
• 2.2 Reviewing Upgrade Best Practices
• 2.3 Checking Hardware and Software Certification
  • 2.3.1 Web Browser Support
  • 2.3.2 Telnet and Terminal Services Support
    • 2.3.2.1 Windows Telnet Services Support
    • 2.3.2.2 Windows Terminal Services and Remote Desktop Support
• 2.4 Checking Hardware Requirements
  • 2.4.1 Hard Disk Space Requirements
• 2.5 Verifying Hardware Requirements
• 2.6 Checking Software Requirements
• 2.7 Configuring User Accounts
  • 2.7.1 Managing User Accounts with User Account Control
• 2.8 Checking Network Requirements
  • 2.8.1 Network Hardware Requirements
  • 2.8.2 IP Address Requirements
  • 2.8.3 Checking Network Requirements
    • 2.8.3.1 Check Hardware and IP Addresses
    • 2.8.3.2 (Optional) Rename Network Interfaces
    • 2.8.3.3 Configure Network Bind Order
    • 2.8.3.4 Disable Windows Media Sensing for TCP/IP
• 2.9 Checking Individual Component Requirements
  • 2.9.1 Oracle Advanced Security Requirements
  • 2.9.2 Oracle Enterprise Manager Requirements
• 2.10 Verifying Cluster Privileges
• 2.11 Understanding and Using Cluster Verification Utility
  • 2.11.1 Entering Cluster Verification Utility Commands
  • 2.11.2 Using CVU to Determine if Installation Prerequisites are Complete
  • 2.11.3 Using the Cluster Verification Utility Help
  • 2.11.4 Using Cluster Verification Utility with Oracle Database 10g Release 1 or 2
  • 2.11.5 Verbose Mode and "Unknown" Output

3 Configuring Oracle Clusterware Storage

• 3.1 Preliminary Shared Disk Preparation
  • 3.1.1 Disabling Write Caching
  • 3.1.2 Enabling Automounting for Windows 2003
• 3.2 Reviewing Storage Options for Oracle Clusterware Files
  • 3.2.1 Overview of Oracle Clusterware Storage Options
  • 3.2.2 General Storage Considerations
  • 3.2.3 After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
• 3.3 Checking for Available Shared Storage with CVU
• 3.4 Configuring Storage for Oracle Clusterware Files on a Shared File System
  • 3.4.1 Requirements for Using a File System for Oracle Clusterware Files
  • 3.4.2 Creating Required Partitions for Oracle Clusterware on Shared File Systems
• 3.5 Configuring Storage for Oracle Clusterware Files on Raw Devices

4 Configuring Oracle Real Application Clusters Storage

• 4.1 Preliminary Shared Disk Preparation
  • 4.1.1 Disabling Write Caching
  • 4.1.2 Enabling Automounting for Windows 2003
• 4.2 Reviewing Storage Options for Oracle Database and Recovery Files
  • 4.2.1 Overview of Oracle Database and Recovery File Storage Options
  • 4.2.2 General Storage Considerations
  • 4.2.3 Guidelines for Placing Oracle Data Files on a File System
  • 4.2.4 Guidelines for Placing Oracle Recovery Files on a File System
  • 4.2.5 After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
• 4.3 Configuring Storage for Oracle Database Files on a Shared File System
• 4.4 Configuring Disks for Automatic Storage Management
  • 4.4.1 General Steps for Configuring Automatic Storage Management
  • 4.4.2 Step 1: Identifying Storage Requirements for Automatic Storage Management
  • 4.4.3 Step 2 (Optional): Using an Existing Automatic Storage Management Disk Group
  • 4.4.4 Step 3: Creating DAS or SAN Disk Partitions for Automatic Storage Management
  • 4.4.5 Step 4: Manually Configuring Disks for Automatic Storage Management
    • 4.4.5.1 Overview of asmtoolg and asmtool
    • 4.4.5.2 Using asmtoolg (Graphical User Interface)
    • 4.4.5.3 Using asmtool (Command Line)
• 4.5 Configuring Logical Volumes or Unformatted Partitions
  • 4.5.1 Creating Partitions for Logical Volumes
  • 4.5.2 Assigning Logical Names
  • 4.5.3 Creating the DBCA Raw Device Mapping File
• 4.6 Configuring Direct NFS Storage for Data Files
  • 4.6.1 About Direct NFS Storage
  • 4.6.2 Using the Oranfstab File with Direct NFS
  • 4.6.3 Mounting NFS Storage Devices with Direct NFS
  • 4.6.4 Specifying Network Paths with the Oranfstab File
  • 4.6.5 Enabling Direct NFS Client
  • 4.6.6 Disabling Direct NFS Client
  • 4.6.7 Checking NFS Buffer Size
• 4.7 Requirements for Files Managed by Oracle

5 Installing Oracle Clusterware

• 5.1 Verifying Oracle Clusterware Requirements with CVU
  • 5.1.1 Troubleshooting Clusterware Setup for Windows
• 5.2 Preparing to Install Oracle Clusterware with OUI
• 5.3 Installing Oracle Clusterware with OUI
  • 5.3.1 Running OUI to Install Oracle Clusterware
  • 5.3.2 Installing Oracle Clusterware Using a Cluster Configuration File
  • 5.3.3 Silent Installation of Oracle Clusterware
• 5.4 Formatting Drives to Use Oracle Cluster File System after Installation

6 Oracle Clusterware Post-Installation Procedures

• 6.1 Backing Up the Voting Disk after Installation
• 6.2 Downloading and Installing Patches
• 6.3 Required Tasks to Install Oracle RAC Database Release 9.2

A Troubleshooting the Oracle Clusterware Installation Process

• A.1 General Installation Issues
• A.2 Oracle Clusterware Install Actions Log Errors and Causes
  • A.2.1 The OCFS format is not recognized on one or more of the remote cluster nodes
  • A.2.2 Timing issue with start of the OracleCSService:
  • A.2.3 You are on a Windows 2003 system, and Automount of new drives is not enabled:
  • A.2.4 You have entered a period in one of the node names during Oracle Clusterware install
  • A.2.5 Node1 failed to startup service OracleEVMService, err(1053)
  • A.2.6 Step 1: checking status of Oracle Clusterware clusterStep 2: configuring OCR repositoryignoring upgrade failure of ocr(-1073740972)

B Deinstalling Oracle Clusterware

• B.1 Deinstalling Oracle Clusterware from Windows Environments
  • B.1.1 Deinstalling Oracle Clusterware with No Previous Cluster Software Versions

C Configuring Raw Devices for Oracle Database

• C.1 Support for Raw Devices
• C.2 Raw Devices Required by Database Configuration Assistant
  • C.2.1 Planning Your Raw Device Creation Strategy

D How to Perform Oracle Clusterware Rolling Upgrades

• D.1 Back Up the Oracle Software Before Upgrades
• D.2 Restrictions for Clusterware Upgrades to Oracle Clusterware 11g
  • D.2.1 Overview of Upgrading from Oracle Clusterware 10g Release 2 to Oracle Clusterware 11g
  • D.2.2 Overview of Upgrading from Oracle Cluster Ready Services 10g Release 1 to Oracle Clusterware 11g
• D.3 Verify System Readiness for Patches and Upgrades
• D.4 How to Perform Oracle Clusterware Rolling Upgrades for Patches
  • D.4.1 Copy Patch Software to the Primary Upgrade Node
  • D.4.2 Stop All Oracle Processes on Upgrade Nodes
  • D.4.3 Start OUI and Complete the Upgrade Processes on Upgrade Nodes
• D.5 How to Perform Rolling Upgrades From an Earlier Release to 11g

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