Tasks for Configuring Oracle ASM for Oracle Database Files

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Chapter 1 Installing Support for Oracle RAC

Overview of the Installation Process for Support for Oracle RAC

Preinstallation Considerations

General Requirements

Hardware and Software Requirements

Oracle Solaris Cluster Framework Requirements

Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Requirements

Software License Requirements

Supported Topology Requirements

Software Update Installation Requirements

Storage Management Requirements

Storage Management Requirements for Oracle Database Files

Storage Management Requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Storage Management Requirements for the Support for Oracle RAC Database

Storage Management Requirements for Oracle Database Binary Files and Configuration Files

Using Local Disks for Oracle Database Binary Files and Configuration Files

Using a Shared File System for Oracle Database Binary Files and Configuration Files

Storage Management Schemes Supported by Zone Clusters

Using Oracle Data Guard With Support for Oracle RAC

Preparing the Oracle Solaris Cluster Nodes

Before You Begin

How to Bypass the NIS Name Service

How to Create the DBA Group and the DBA User Accounts

How to Configure Shared Memory for Support for Oracle RAC Software in the Global Cluster

How to Configure Shared Memory for Support for Oracle RAC Software in a Zone Cluster

How to Set the Necessary Privileges for Support for Oracle RAC Software in a Zone Cluster

How to Configure the Logical Hostname Resources or Virtual IP Addresses for Support for Oracle RAC Software in a Zone Cluster

Installing the Support for Oracle RAC Package

How to Install the Support for Oracle RAC Package

Chapter 2 Configuring Storage for Oracle Database Files

Summary of Configuration Tasks for Storage for Oracle Database Files

Tasks for Configuring the Sun QFS Shared File System for Oracle Database Files

Tasks for Configuring Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster for Oracle Database Files

Tasks for Configuring Hardware RAID Support for Oracle Database Files

Tasks for Configuring Oracle ASM for Oracle Database Files

Tasks for Configuring Qualified NAS Devices for Oracle Database Files

Tasks for Configuring a Cluster File System for Oracle Database Files

Installing Storage Management Software With Support for Oracle RAC

Using Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster

How to Use Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster

Using Hardware RAID Support

How to Use Hardware RAID Support

Using the Sun QFS Shared File System

Distributing Oracle Database Files Among Sun QFS Shared File Systems

Sun QFS File Systems for RDBMS Binary Files and Related Files

Sun QFS File Systems for Database Files and Related Files

Optimizing the Performance of the Sun QFS Shared File System

How to Install and Configure the Sun QFS Shared File System

Using Oracle ASM

How to Use Oracle ASM With Hardware RAID

Using a Cluster File System

Types of Oracle Database Files That You Can Store on a PxFS-Based Cluster File System

Types of Oracle Database Files That You Can Store on an Oracle ACFS File System

Optimizing Performance and Availability When Using a PxFS-Based Cluster File System

How to Use a PxFS-Based Cluster File System

How to Use an Oracle ACFS File System

Chapter 3 Registering and Configuring the Resource Groups

Registering and Configuring the Support for Oracle RAC Framework Resource Group

Tools for Registering and Configuring the Support for Oracle RAC Framework Resource Group

How to Register and Configure the Support for Oracle RAC Framework Resource Group by Using clsetup

Registering and Configuring the Multiple-Owner Volume-Manager Framework Resource Group

Tools for Registering and Configuring the Multiple-Owner Volume-Manager Framework Resource Group

How to Register and Configure the Multiple-Owner Volume-Manager Framework Resource Group by Using clsetup

Creating a Global Device Group for the Support for Oracle RAC Database

How to Create a Multi-Owner Disk Set in Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster for the Oracle RAC Database

Registering and Configuring Storage Resources for Oracle Database Files

Tools for Registering and Configuring Storage Resources for Oracle Database Files

How to Register and Configure Storage Resources for Oracle Database Files by Using clsetup

Registering and Configuring the Oracle ASM Resource Group

Tools for Registering and Configuring the Oracle ASM Resource Group

How to Register and Configure the Oracle ASM Resource Group by Using clsetup

Chapter 4 Enabling Support for Oracle RAC to Run in a Cluster

Overview of Tasks for Enabling Support for Oracle RAC to Run in a Cluster

Installing Oracle RAC Software

Installing Binary Files and Configuration Files on a Shared File System

Overriding Networking Defaults for Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Next Steps

Verifying the Installation of Oracle RAC

How to Verify the Installation of Oracle RAC

Creating an Oracle ASM Instance and Disk Groups

How to Create an Oracle ASM Instance and Disk Groups

Creating an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Framework Resource

How to Create an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Framework Resource

Creating an Oracle Database

How to Specify the Location of Data Files on a Shared File System

Configuring Resources for Support for Oracle RAC Database Instances

Tools for Registering and Configuring Resources for Support for Oracle RAC Database Instances

How to Enable Oracle Solaris Cluster and Oracle Grid Infrastructure to Interoperate

Verifying the Installation and Configuration of Support for Oracle RAC

How to Verify the Configuration of the Support for Oracle RAC Framework Resource Group

How to Verify the Configuration of the Multiple-Owner Volume-Manager Framework Resource Group

How to Verify the Configuration of Storage Resources for Oracle Database Files

How to Verify the Configuration of Resources for Support for Oracle RAC Database Instances

How to Verify the Correct Behavior for Shutdown and Booting of the Cluster

Chapter 5 Administering Support for Oracle RAC

Overview of Administration Tasks for Support for Oracle RAC

Automatically Generated Names for Oracle Solaris Cluster Objects

Administering Support for Oracle RAC Databases From Oracle Solaris Cluster Software

Effects of State Changes to Oracle Solaris Cluster Resources for Support for Oracle RAC Database Instances

Tuning Support for Oracle RAC

Guidelines for Setting Timeouts

Reservation Step Timeout

Tuning the Support for Oracle RAC Fault Monitors

Operation of the Fault Monitor for a Scalable Device Group

Operation of the Fault Monitor for Scalable File-System Mount Points

Obtaining Core Files for Troubleshooting DBMS Timeouts

Chapter 6 Troubleshooting Support for Oracle RAC

Verifying the Status of Support for Oracle RAC

How to Verify the Status of Support for Oracle RAC

Examples of the Status of Support for Oracle RAC

Sources of Diagnostic Information

Common Problems and Their Solutions

Failure of a Support for Oracle RAC Framework Resource Group

Node Panic During Initialization of Support for Oracle RAC

Failure of the ucmmd Daemon to Start

How to Recover From a Failure of the ucmmd Daemon or a Related Component

Failure of a Multiple-Owner Volume-Manager Framework Resource Group

Node Panic During Initialization of the Multiple-Owner Volume-Manager Framework

Failure of the vucmmd Daemon to Start

How to Recover From a Failure of the vucmmd Daemon or a Related Component

SUNW.qfs Registration Fails Because the Registration File Is Not Found

Node Panic Caused by a Timeout

Failure of Services that Depend on a SUNW.ScalDeviceGroup Resource

Failure of a SUNW.rac_framework or SUNW.vucmm_framework Resource to Start

SUNW.rac_framework Failure-to-Start Status Messages

SUNW.vucmm_framework Failure-to-Start Status Messages

How to Recover From the Timing Out of the START Method

Failure of a Resource to Stop

Chapter 7 Modifying an Existing Configuration of Support for Oracle RAC

Overview of Tasks for Modifying an Existing Configuration of Support for Oracle RAC

Modifying Online the Resource for a Scalable Device Group

How to Modify Online the Resource for a Scalable Device Group

Extending an Existing Configuration of Support for Oracle RAC

How to Add Support for Oracle RAC to Selected Nodes

How to Add a Volume Manager Resource to the SUNW.vucmm_framework Resource Group

Removing an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Resource

How to Remove a Dependency

How to Delete the sun.resource Resource

Removing Support for Oracle RAC

How to Remove Support for Oracle RAC From a Cluster

How to Remove Support for Oracle RAC From Selected Nodes

Chapter 8 Upgrading Support for Oracle RAC

Upgrading Resources in Support for Oracle RAC

Re-creating the Oracle Grid Infrastructure sun.storage_proxy.type Resource Type and Resources

How to Re-create the Oracle Grid Infrastructure sun.storage_proxy.type Resource Type and Resources

Information for Registering the New Versions of Support for Oracle RAC Resource Types

Adding Storage Resources for Oracle Database Files

Adding Resources for Interoperation With Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Appendix A Sample Configurations of This Data Service

Sample Support for Oracle RAC Configurations in the Global Cluster

Sample Support for Oracle RAC Configurations in a Zone Cluster

Appendix B Preset Actions for DBMS Errors and Logged Alerts

Appendix C Support for Oracle RAC Extension Properties

SUNW.crs_framework Extension Properties

SUNW.rac_framework Extension Properties

SUNW.scalable_acfs_proxy Extension Properties

SUNW.scalable_asm_diskgroup_proxy Extension Properties

SUNW.scalable_asm_instance_proxy Extension Properties

SUNW.scalable_rac_server_proxy Extension Properties

SUNW.ScalDeviceGroup Extension Properties

SUNW.ScalMountPoint Extension Properties

SUNW.vucmm_framework Extension Properties

SUNW.vucmm_svm Extension Properties

SUNW.wait_zc_boot Extension Properties

Appendix D Command-Line Alternatives

Setting Support for Oracle RAC Extension Properties

Registering and Configuring the Framework Resource Groups by Using Oracle Solaris Cluster Maintenance Commands

Overview of the Framework Resource Groups

Support for Oracle RAC Framework Resource Group

Multiple-Owner Volume-Manager Framework Resource Group

How to Register and Configure the Framework Resource Groups in the Global Cluster by Using Oracle Solaris Cluster Maintenance Commands

How to Register and Configure the Support for Oracle RAC Framework Resource Group in a Zone Cluster by Using Oracle Solaris Cluster Maintenance Commands

Registering and Configuring Oracle ASM Resource Groups (CLI)

How to Register and Configure Oracle ASM Resource Groups in the Global Cluster (CLI)

How to Register and Configure Oracle ASM Resource Groups in a Zone Cluster (CLI)

Creating Storage Management Resources by Using Oracle Solaris Cluster Maintenance Commands

Resources for Scalable Device Groups and Scalable File-System Mount Points

Resources for the Sun QFS Metadata Server

How to Create a Resource for a Scalable Device Group in the Global Cluster

How to Create a Resource for a Scalable Device Group in a Zone Cluster

How to Register and Configure Resources for the Sun QFS Metadata Server in the Global Cluster

How to Register and Configure Resources for the Sun QFS Metadata Server for a Zone Cluster

How to Create a Resource for a File-System Mount Point in the Global Cluster

How to Create a Resource for a File-System Mount Point in Zone Cluster

Creating Resources for Interoperation With Oracle Grid Infrastructure by Using Oracle Solaris Cluster Maintenance Commands

How to Create an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Resource for Interoperation With Oracle Solaris Cluster

How to Create Oracle Solaris Cluster Resources in the Global Cluster for Interoperation With Oracle Grid Infrastructure

How to Create Oracle Solaris Cluster Resources in a Zone Cluster for Interoperation With Oracle Grid Infrastructure

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The following table summarizes the tasks for configuring Oracle ASM and provides cross-references to detailed instructions for performing the tasks.

Table 2-6 Tasks for Configuring Oracle ASM for Oracle Database Files

Task	Instructions
Configure devices for Oracle ASM.	Using Oracle ASM

Note - For information about configuring Oracle ASM for a zone cluster, see Adding Storage Devices to a Zone Cluster in Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Installation Guide .