Preface

Oracle Clusterware Installation Guide for Linux explains how to install and configure Oracle Clusterware, and how to configure a server and storage in preparation for an Oracle Real Application Clusters installation.

Intended Audience

Oracle Clusterware Installation Guide for Linux provides configuration information for network and system administrators, and database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure Oracle Clusterware.

For customers with specialized system roles who intend to install Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), this book is intended to be used by system administrators, network administrators, or storage administrators to complete the process of configuring a system in preparation for an Oracle Clusterware installation, and complete all configuration tasks that require operating system root privileges. When configuration and installation of Oracle Clusterware is completed successfully, a system administrator should only need to provide configuration information and to grant access to the database administrator to run scripts as root during Oracle RAC installation.

This guide assumes that you are familiar with Oracle database concepts. For additional information, refer to books in the Related Documents list.

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Related Documents

For more information, refer to the following Oracle resources:

Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Documentation

Most Oracle error message documentation is only available in HTML format. If you only have access to the Oracle Documentation media, then browse the error messages by range. When you find a range, use your browser's "find in page" feature to locate a specific message. When connected to the Internet, you can search for a specific error message using the error message search feature of the Oracle online documentation. However, error messages for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC tools are included in Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide, or Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide.

This installation guide reviews steps required to complete an Oracle Clusterware installation, and to perform preinstallation steps for Oracle RAC. If you intend to install Oracle Database or Oracle RAC, then review those installation guides for additional information.

Installation Guides

Operating System-Specific Administrative Guides

Oracle Real Application Clusters Management

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