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| Oracle® Real Application Clusters Installation Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Microsoft Windows Part Number E10818-02 |
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This chapter describes phase two of the installation procedures for installing Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). Phase one is the completion of installing Oracle Clusterware, as described in Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows.
See Also:
Oracle Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows for additional information, such as how to open compressed installation files, and other information about setting up files for installationAlso, during installation, click Help to find explanations of options and prompts for each installation screen, and click Details to see the log file
This chapter contains the following topics:
With the Oracle Database 11g release, Oracle Application Express is provided as an Oracle Database option, rather than as an Oracle Application option. If you intend to install Oracle Database after installing Oracle Clusterware, and you have an existing Oracle Database installation that you are upgrading, then review the Oracle Application Express requirements in Oracle Application Express Installation Guide.
When you run OUI, you can select the Typical or the Advanced Install type.
The Typical install type installs a default configuration of Oracle Database, with basic configuration choices. Oracle recommends that most users select Typical as their installation type.
The Advanced installation type is for customized installations, and should be used only when you have a specific requirement for it, such as adding specific components to your installation, requiring different passwords for the SYS, SYSMAN, SYSTEM and DBSNMP accounts, using a different database character set than is in use on your servers, changing product languages, or other nonstandard configurations.
This section describes Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) features that you should understand before beginning the Oracle RAC installation process.
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Appendix C, " Converting to Oracle Real Application Clusters from Single-Instance Oracle Databases" for information about how to convert single-instance databases to Oracle RACOn the Select Installation Option page, you are given the following options:
Create and Configure a Database: Provides you with the option to create a database using a preconfigured database template designed for particular system load demands, such as an online transaction processing (OLTP) database, or a decision support or data warehouse database.
If you select the Oracle Automatic Storage Management option for storage, then you must have installed Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) as part of the Grid Infrastructure installation. If you did not select Oracle ASM as the storage option for the Oracle Clusterware files, then you must first use Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA) from the Grid home to configure Oracle ASM, create an Oracle ASM instance, and create a disk group to use for your Oracle Database storage.
Install database software only: Installs Oracle Database software; you must complete database configuration later.
Upgrade an existing database: Upgrades an existing database to Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2).
If you are installing Oracle Database software, then Oracle recommends that you use one of the preconfigured database options, or select the Advanced option on the Select Configuration page, and configure a customized starter database. See "Oracle Database Configuration Type Descriptions" for more information about the different preconfigured database options.
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If you have an existing Oracle installation, then document version numbers, patches, and other configuration information, and review upgrade procedures for your existing installation. Review Oracle Database Upgrade Guide before proceeding with installation, to decide how you want to proceed.For late-breaking updates and best practices about pre-upgrade, post-upgrade steps, compatibility, and interoperability discussions, refer to "Oracle Upgrade Companion." The "Oracle Upgrade Companion" is available through Note 785351.1 on My Oracle Support:
When you run OUI, you can select the General Purpose/Transaction Processing, Data Warehouse, or Advanced database configuration type.
For the first three configuration types, you can complete additional procedures that are described later in this chapter. If you select Advanced configuration, then you can use Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) to create the database as described in Chapter 3, "Creating Oracle Real Application Clusters Databases with Database Configuration Assistant". Oracle recommends that you use DBCA to create your database.
The General Purpose and Transaction Processing type and the Data Warehouse configuration type use preconfigured database templates optimized for each type of database.
During installation, if you select one of the preconfigured database templates, then OUI starts Oracle Network Configuration Assistant (NETCA) and DBCA, and installs the preconfigured database without further input. During database installation, OUI displays a progress indicator.
DBCA processing for these two configuration types creates a starter database, and configures the Oracle network services.
If you select Advanced configuration, then you must enter specific information as described in the next section.
Use the Advanced database configuration type to address specific requirements, such as selecting specific components to add or remove from the installation, creating a database in a nondefault character set, or adding translation of product user interface into languages other than English. By default, the installation configures the character set of a new database based on the language of the operating system.
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Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide for detailed information on character sets and language configurationThe following sections provides more detail about OUI and DBCA processing when creating an Oracle RAC database.
See Also:
Oracle Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows for information about configuring globalizationIf you want to use languages other than the default (English), either for the database or for applications running on the database, then you must use the Advanced Installation method.
Oracle Database Vault requires the following:
An Oracle Database Enterprise Edition installation (cannot be used with Oracle Standard Edition)
Setting the initialization parameter db_block_size for the database to 4096 or higher. You can specify the initial value for this parameter during installation.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Console
Oracle Clusterware
The password file authentication parameter, REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE, must have been set to EXCLUSIVE or SHARED for the database. You can specify the initial value for this parameter during installation, or in the Oracle Database initialization file.
To create and manage password files, use the orapwd utility.
See Also:
Oracle Database Administrator's Guide for more information on creating and maintaining a password fileYou can install Oracle Database Vault more than once on the same system, in different Oracle homes.
During installation, you are prompted to provide information needed to enable Oracle Configuration Manager. This option enables you to associate information about your Oracle RAC configuration with your My Oracle Support (formerly OracleMetalink) account. In the event that you need to place a service request with Oracle Support, that configuration information can help to provide a more rapid resolution to the service issue.
You can enable Oracle Configuration Manager during or after installation, or choose not to enable it. To enable it during installation, you must have the following information available from your Oracle Support service agreement:
Customer Support Identification Number (CSI) that identifies your organization
My Oracle Support e-mail address/username
Password
Name of the country associated with your company
In addition, you are prompted for server proxy information, if the host system does not have a direct connection to the Internet.
Refer to My Oracle Support (https://support.oracle.com) if you encounter registration failures and are uncertain that the correct country code has been specified. You can find the country associated with your My Oracle Support account by selecting the menu option More, then selecting Settings. In the Settings menu, select Accounts & Privileges.
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Oracle Configuration Manager Installation and Administration Guide for further informationThe global database name can be up to 30 characters in length, and must begin with an alphabetic character. The domain portion of the global database name can be no more than 128 characters and can contain only the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, the dash or minus sign (-), or a period (.). Domain names using underscores (_) are not allowed.
The system identifier (SID) for each database must begin with an alphabetic character, and is limited by the installer to 12 alphanumeric characters in length. For Oracle RAC databases, the SID prefix, which is the first 8 characters of the SID, must be unique for each database. The SID and SID prefix can only contain alphanumeric characters and cannot contain underscore (_), dollar ($), and pound (#) characters.
Apply the following guidelines when specifying passwords:
Passwords must be between 8 and 30 characters long.
Passwords must be from the ASCII character set.
Passwords must not start with a numeral.
Passwords must not be the same as the user name.
Passwords must not be Oracle reserved words.
The SYS account password must not be change_on_install.
The SYSTEM account password must not be manager.
The SYSMAN account password must not be sysman.
The DBSNMP account password must not be dbsnmp.
If you choose to use the same password for all the accounts, then that password must not be change_on_install, manager, sysman, or dbsnmp.
Passwords should have at least 1 alphabetic, 1 numeric, and 1 punctuation mark character
Passwords should not be simple or obvious words, such as welcome, account, database, oracle, or user.
During installation, you are prompted to select a database security configuration.The Secure Configuration option configures the database with database auditing options, and password policy and expiration settings.
For new database installations, the default configuration for Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) includes the Secure Configuration option. If you want to disable these enhanced security controls, then you can check the Disable security settings box. Oracle Database is then installed with default security options for Oracle Database 10g release 2. After installation, you can change security settings by starting DBCA and modifying the security settings. You can enable or disable auditing or password security settings, or revert to a previous security setting.
For database upgrades, the upgraded database retains your existing database security configuration to ensure compatibility with existing applications. After installation, you can use DBCA to enable or disable the Secure Configuration auditing or password security settings for testing.
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Oracle strongly recommends configuring your database with the Secure Configuration option either during installation, or after installation using command line DBCA.See Also:
Oracle Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows for more information about enabling and disabling the database security optionAfter installing the Oracle Database software, OUI runs DBCA to create your database, in accordance with Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) guidelines. An installation created following OFA guidelines means that DBCA creates your database files, including the default server parameter file (SPFILE), using standard file naming and file placement practices.
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Oracle Net Configuration Assistant (NetCA) is run as part of an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation.The primary phases of DBCA processing are the following:
Create the database.
Configure the Oracle network services, if necessary.
Start the listeners and database instances.
You can also use DBCA in standalone mode to create or delete a database, or to switch database management from Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control to Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control.
See Also:
Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide if you experience problems (for example, with the listener configuration), and for further information about Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) supportNote that with Oracle Database 11g release 1 (11.1) and later releases, you can no longer manage database services for Oracle RAC databases using DBCA. You must use srvctl, Oracle Enterprise Manager DB Control or Enterprise Manager Grid Control for all administration and monitoring of database services for an Oracle RAC database.
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Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide for service management using Oracle Enterprise ManagerIn Oracle Database 10g and later releases, some database language and territory definition files have been updated to better reflect locale conventions used in associated locales.
If the resulting changes in default NLS parameter values render your existing applications, inoperative, then you can revert the changes by installing Oracle9i compatibility definition files. To install Oracle9i files in place of Oracle11g files, you must run OUI from a command line, as described in "Using Oracle Universal Installer to Install Oracle RAC", and use the following statement to set the b_cr9idata variable to true:
setup.exe oracle.rsf.nlsrtl_rsf:b_cr9idata=true
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Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide for additional information about updates to the Oracle Database language and territory definition filesTo install Oracle Database Vault, you must select the Advanced installation option for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. After the Oracle Database Vault software has been installed, you configure Oracle Database Vault using DBCA. Oracle Database Vault is not configured by default.
To install Oracle Database Vault while installing Oracle RAC:
Start Oracle Universal Installer, and select Advanced installation.
Select Enterprise Edition, and then select Options.
In addition to the default installation components, select Oracle Label Security (OLS) and Oracle Database Vault.
Continue the rest of the installation process as you normally would.
Note:
You must set the database initialization parameter
db_block_size to 4096 or higher. You can configure this parameter during installation of Oracle RAC.After you have installed Oracle RAC with the Oracle Database Vault option you must complete the configuration of Oracle Database Vault, as described in the Oracle Database Vault Administrator's Guide.
Perform the following procedures to install the Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) software with Oracle RAC using Oracle Universal Installer (OUI):
Login to Windows as a user with Administrative privileges.
Verify that you have administrative privileges on the other nodes. To do this, enter the following command for each node that is a part of the cluster where node_name is the name of the remote node:
net use \\node_name\C$
Start the setup.exe command from the base directory of the Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) installation media, and select the database type that you want to install.
Provide information when prompted by OUI. If you need assistance during installation, then click Help. If you encounter problems during installation, then click Details to see the log file. The log file can also be found in the Oracle Inventory directory with a name that includes the timestamp (date_time) of the install process, as shown in this example:
C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\logs\installActionsdate_time.log
In the preceding syntax example, the variables date and time represents the date and the time of the log file.
Caution:
The Oracle home name and path that you provide during database installation must be different from the home that you used during Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation. Do not install Oracle Database 11g with Oracle RAC software into the same home in which you installed Oracle Grid Infrastructure software.If you are upgrading a database, then you must use the same type of Oracle home. For example, you should not change from local Oracle homes to a shared Oracle home.
Note that because Oracle ASM is part of the Grid Infrastructure home, it cannot be upgraded during an Oracle RAC installation.
When you have completed the second and final phase of the installation, proceed to Chapter 4, "Oracle Real Application Clusters Postinstallation Procedures" to perform the postinstallation tasks.
Caution:
After installation is completed and you have created the database, if you decide that you want to install additional Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) products in the database, then you must stop all processes running in the Oracle home before you attempt to install the additional products. For the Oracle Universal Installer to relink certain executables and libraries, all database processes must be stopped. Refer to Appendix E, "How to Stop Processes in an Existing Oracle Real Application Clusters Database" for additional information.The following is a list of additional information to note about installation:
On the Select Database Management Option page, if you have already completed the Grid Control Management Agent installation, then you can select either Grid or Local Database control. Otherwise, only Local Database control for database management is supported for Oracle RAC. When you use the local Database Control, you can choose the e-mail option for alerts and enter the outgoing SMTP server name and e-mail address.
If you perform an installation that does not include Oracle Enterprise Manager (for example, a customized software install without Oracle Enterprise Manager, an installation with no Oracle Enterprise Manager configuration, or a database creation with your own scripts), then you can configure Oracle Enterprise Manager later using OUI, DBCA, or the Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant (EMCA) utility.
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