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Oracle® Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide
11
g
Release 2 (11.2) for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit)
Part Number E10814-01
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Title and Copyright Information
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
Configure Oracle Installation Owner Shell Limits
1.3.6
Check Storage
1.3.7
Prepare Storage for Automatic Storage Management
1.3.8
Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software
2
Advanced Installation Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Preinstallation Tasks
2.1
Reviewing Upgrade Best Practices
2.2
Installation Fixup Scripts
2.3
Logging In to a Remote System as root Using X Terminal
2.4
Creating Groups, Users and Paths for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
2.4.1
Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists
2.4.2
Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist
2.4.3
Creating the Oracle Grid Infrastructure User
2.4.3.1
Understanding Restrictions for Oracle Software Installation Owners
2.4.3.2
Determining if an Oracle Software Owner User Exists
2.4.3.3
Creating or Modifying an Oracle Software Owner User for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
2.4.4
Creating the Oracle Base Directory Path
2.4.5
Creating Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and Users
2.4.5.1
Overview of Creating Job Role Separation Groups and Users
2.4.5.2
Creating Database Groups and Users with Job Role Separation
2.4.6
Example of Creating Standard Groups, Users, and Paths
2.4.7
Example of Creating Role-allocated Groups, Users, and Paths
2.5
Checking the Hardware Requirements
2.6
Checking the Network Requirements
2.6.1
Network Hardware Requirements
2.6.2
IP Address Requirements
2.6.2.1
IP Address Requirements with Grid Naming Service
2.6.2.2
IP Address Requirements for Manual Configuration
2.6.3
DNS Configuration for Domain Delegation to Grid Naming Service
2.6.4
Grid Naming Service Configuration Example
2.6.5
Manual IP Address Configuration Example
2.6.6
Network Interface Configuration Options
2.6.7
Checking the Run Level and Name Service Cache Daemon
2.7
Identifying the Software Requirements
2.8
Checking the Software Requirements
2.9
Tuning AIX System Environment
2.9.1
Checking Asynchronous Input Output Processes for AIX 5L
2.9.2
Tuning Virtual Memory Manager (VMM)
2.9.3
Increasing System Block Size Allocation
2.9.4
Configuring Shell Limits
2.9.5
Configuring User Process Parameters
2.9.6
Configuring Network Tuning Parameters
2.10
Network Time Protocol Setting
2.11
Automatic SSH Configuration During Installation
2.12
Configuring Grid Infrastructure Software Owner User Environments
2.12.1
Environment Requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Owner
2.12.2
Environment Requirements for Oracle Database and Oracle ASM Owners
2.12.3
Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments
2.12.4
Setting Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration
2.12.5
Preventing Installation Errors Caused by stty Commands
2.13
Running the rootpre.sh Script
2.14
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
3.1.1.1
Quorum Disk Location Restriction with Existing 9.2 Clusterware Installations
3.1.1.2
After You Have Selected Disk 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 NFS for Data Files
3.2.4
Configuring Storage NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters
3.2.5
Configuring HACMP Multinode Disk Heartbeat (MNDHB) for Oracle Clusterware
3.2.5.1
Overview of Requirements for Using HACMP with Oracle Clusterware
3.2.5.2
Deploying HACMP and MDNDHB for Oracle Clusterware
3.2.5.3
Upgrading an Existing Oracle Clusterware and HACMP Installation
3.2.6
Configuring Raw Logical Volumes for Oracle Clusterware
3.2.7
Configuring Raw Logical Volumes in the New Oracle Clusterware Volume Group
3.2.8
Creating a Volume Group for Database Files
3.2.9
Creating a Volume Group for Oracle Clusterware
3.2.10
Importing the Volume Group on the Other Cluster Nodes
3.2.11
Activating the Volume Group in Concurrent Mode on All Cluster Nodes
3.2.12
Creating Directories for Oracle Clusterware Files on Shared File Systems
3.2.13
Creating Directories for Oracle Database Files on Shared File Systems
3.3
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Storage Configuration
3.3.1
Configuring Storage for Oracle Automatic Storage Management
3.3.1.1
Identifying Storage Requirements for Oracle ASM
3.3.1.2
Creating Files on a NAS Device for Use with Oracle ASM
3.3.2
Using an Existing Oracle ASM Disk Group
3.3.3
Configuring Disk Devices for Oracle ASM
3.3.4
Using Diskgroups with Oracle Database Files on Oracle ASM
3.3.4.1
Identifying and Using Existing Oracle Database Diskgroups on Oracle ASM
3.3.4.2
Creating Diskgroups for Oracle Database Data Files
3.3.5
Migrating Existing Oracle ASM Instances
3.3.6
Converting Standalone Oracle ASM Installations to Clustered Installations
3.4
Desupport of Raw Disks
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 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
Relinking Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Binaries
6.4
Deconfiguring Oracle Clusterware Without Removing Binaries
6.5
Removing Oracle Database 11
g
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 Clusterware Installation Process
A.1
Install OS Watcher and RACDDT
A.2
General Installation Issues
A.3
Performing Cluster Diagnostics During Oracle Clusterware Installations
A.4
Interconnect Errors
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
Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Installation Concepts
C.1
Understanding Preinstallation Configuration
C.1.1
Understanding Oracle Groups and Users
C.1.1.1
Understanding the Oracle Inventory Group
C.1.1.2
Understanding the Oracle Inventory Directory
C.1.2
Understanding the Oracle Base Directory Path
C.1.2.1
Overview of the Oracle Base directory
C.1.2.2
Understanding Oracle Base and Grid Infrastructure Directories
C.1.3
Understanding Network Addresses
C.1.3.1
About the Public IP Address
C.1.3.2
About the Private IP Address
C.1.3.3
About the Virtual IP Address
C.1.3.4
About the Grid Naming Service (GNS) Virtual IP Address
C.1.3.5
About the SCAN
C.1.4
Understanding Network Time Requirements
C.2
Understanding Storage Configuration
C.2.1
About Migrating Existing Oracle ASM Instances
C.2.2
About Converting Standalone Oracle ASM Installations to Clustered Installations
C.3
Understanding Out-of-Place Upgrade
D
How to Complete Installation Prerequisite Tasks Manually
D.1
Configuring SSH Manually on All Cluster Nodes
D.1.1
Checking Existing SSH Configuration on the System
D.1.2
Configuring SSH on Cluster Nodes
D.1.2.1
Create SSH Directory, and Create SSH Keys On Each Node
D.1.2.2
Add All Keys to a Common authorized_keys File
D.1.3
Enabling SSH User Equivalency on Cluster Nodes
E
How to Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2
E.1
Back Up the Oracle Software Before Upgrades
E.2
Unset Oracle Environment Variables
E.3
Restrictions for Clusterware Upgrades to Oracle Clusterware 11
g
E.4
Verify System Readiness for Upgrades
E.5
Upgrading an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
E.5.1
Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
E.6
Performing Rolling Upgrades From an Earlier Release
E.6.1
Verify System Readiness for Upgrades
E.6.2
Performing a Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Clusterware
E.6.3
Performing a Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Automatic Storage Management
E.6.3.1
Preparing to Upgrade Oracle ASM
E.6.3.2
Upgrading Oracle ASM
E.7
Updating DB Control and Grid Control Target Parameters
E.8
Downgrading Oracle Clusterware After an Upgrade
Index
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