Table of Contents

• Title and Copyright Information
• Preface
  • Intended Audience
  • Documentation Accessibility
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Set Up Java Access Bridge to Implement Java Accessibility
  • Related Documents
  • Conventions
• Changes In This Release for Oracle Real Application Clusters
  • Changes in Oracle Database 19c
    • Deprecated Features for Oracle RAC 19c
    • Desupported Features for Oracle RAC 19c
• 1 Oracle RAC Installation Checklist
  • 1.1 Deployment Checklist for Oracle RAC Database
  • 1.2 Server Hardware and Software Review Checklist for Oracle RAC Installation
  • 1.3 Supported Storage Options for Oracle Database and Recovery Files
  • 1.4 Installer Planning Checklist for Oracle Database Installation
  • 1.5 Upgrade Checklist for Oracle RAC
• 2 Installing Oracle RAC and Oracle RAC One Node
  • 2.1 About Image-Based Oracle Database Installation
  • 2.2 Setup Wizard Installation Options for Creating Images
  • 2.3 Deciding Between Multitenant Container Databases and Non-CDBs in Oracle RAC
  • 2.4 Installing Oracle RAC and Oracle RAC One Node Databases
    • 2.4.1 Installing Oracle RAC and Oracle RAC One Node Database Software
  • 2.5 Simplified Upgrade of TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE Data
  • 2.6 Overview of Installation Directories for Oracle RAC
    • 2.6.1 Overview of Oracle Base Directories
    • 2.6.2 Overview of Oracle Home Directories
  • 2.7 Specify Oracle Home User Name and Password
  • 2.8 Updating Environment Variables on Remote Nodes
  • 2.9 Creating an Oracle RAC Database on Direct NFS
    • 2.9.1 Performing a Software-Only Installation of Oracle Database
    • 2.9.2 Using Oracle ASMCA to Configure an ACFS Mount Point
    • 2.9.3 Using Oracle DBCA to Create and Configure the Oracle RAC Database
    • 2.9.4 Enabling and Configuring Direct NFS
    • 2.9.5 Using Oracle ASMCA to Remove the ACFS Mount Point
• 3 Creating Oracle RAC or Oracle RAC One Node Databases with Oracle DBCA
  • 3.1 Using Oracle DBCA with Oracle RAC or Oracle RAC One Node
  • 3.2 About Oracle Database Configuration Assistant
  • 3.3 Selecting Installation Options for Oracle RAC
    • 3.3.1 Selecting a Security Notification Contact
    • 3.3.2 Selecting an Installation Option
    • 3.3.3 Selecting the Database Type for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Deployments
    • 3.3.4 Choosing the Cluster Database Management Type
    • 3.3.5 Selecting an Installation Type
      • 3.3.5.1 Preconfigured Database Types Supplied with Oracle Database
      • 3.3.5.2 Using Advanced Database Configuration
      • 3.3.5.3 About Installing Oracle Database with Other Languages
    • 3.3.6 Selecting a Database Name
    • 3.3.7 Requirements for Database Passwords
    • 3.3.8 About Automatic Memory Management Installation Options
    • 3.3.9 About Character Set Selection During Installation
    • 3.3.10 Managing Database Services After Installation
  • 3.4 Installing the Oracle Database Vault Option
    • 3.4.1 Starting the Listener with Oracle Database Vault Installations
    • 3.4.2 Configuring Oracle Database Vault Using DBCA
    • 3.4.3 Perform Postinstallation Configuration for Oracle Database Vault
  • 3.5 Automatic Listener Migration from Earlier Releases
  • 3.6 Verifying Requirements for Oracle DBCA
  • 3.7 Tasks to Complete Before Using DBCA to Create an Oracle RAC Database
    • 3.7.1 Decide on a Naming Convention to Use for Your Oracle RAC Database
    • 3.7.2 Configure Shared Storage for the Oracle RAC Database
    • 3.7.3 Obtain the Password for the Oracle Home User
  • 3.8 Selecting DBCA Options to Create an Oracle RAC or Oracle RAC One Node Database
    • 3.8.1 Starting DBCA on Microsoft Windows Systems
    • 3.8.2 Cluster Detection and Node Selection when Using DBCA
    • 3.8.3 Using DBCA to Select Storage to Use With Oracle RAC Database
    • 3.8.4 Using DBCA to Specify Database Initialization Parameters for Oracle RAC
    • 3.8.5 Actions Performed By DBCA for Oracle RAC Databases
  • 3.9 Using DBCA to Create an Oracle RAC One Node Database
  • 3.10 Deleting an Oracle RAC Database Using DBCA
  • 3.11 Creating an Oracle RAC Database on Direct NFS
    • 3.11.1 Performing a Software-Only Installation of Oracle Database
    • 3.11.2 Using Oracle ASMCA to Configure an ACFS Mount Point
    • 3.11.3 Using Oracle DBCA to Create and Configure the Oracle RAC Database
    • 3.11.4 Enabling and Configuring Direct NFS
    • 3.11.5 Using Oracle ASMCA to Remove the ACFS Mount Point
• 4 Oracle Real Application Clusters Postinstallation Procedures
  • 4.1 Required Postinstallation Tasks
    • 4.1.1 Determine If Any Patches Are Required For Your New Software
    • 4.1.2 Configure Exceptions for the Windows Firewall
    • 4.1.3 Create the OraMTS Service for Microsoft Transaction Server
    • 4.1.4 Recompiling All Invalid Objects
    • 4.1.5 Configuring Services on Oracle RAC with CDBs
  • 4.2 Recommended Postinstallation Tasks
    • 4.2.1 Setting Up Additional User Accounts
    • 4.2.2 Setting the Oracle User Environment Variables
    • 4.2.3 About Installing Oracle Autonomous Health Framework
    • 4.2.4 About Using CVU Cluster Healthchecks After Installation
  • 4.3 Product-Specific Postinstallation Tasks
    • 4.3.1 Configuring Oracle Database Vault
    • 4.3.2 Configuring Oracle Label Security
    • 4.3.3 Configuring the OraClrAgnt Service for Oracle Database Extensions for .NET
    • 4.3.4 Configuring Oracle XML DB
    • 4.3.5 Configure Storage for External Tables, Shared Files, or Directory Objects
  • 4.4 Configuring the Oracle Home User
  • 4.5 Oracle Configuration Manager Postinstallation Configuration for Oracle RAC
  • 4.6 Enabling and Disabling Database Options After Installation
• 5 Using Server Pools with Oracle RAC
  • 5.1 Policy-Managed Clusters and Capacity Management
    • 5.1.1 Server Pools and Server Categorization
    • 5.1.2 Server Pools and Policy-Based Management
    • 5.1.3 How Server Pools Work
    • 5.1.4 Default Server Pools
      • 5.1.4.1 The Free Server Pool
      • 5.1.4.2 The Generic Server Pool
  • 5.2 Oracle RAC Database and Server Pools
  • 5.3 About Creating Server Pools for Oracle RAC Databases
  • 5.4 Oracle RAC One Node and Server Pools
• 6 Understanding the Oracle RAC Installed Configuration
  • 6.1 Understanding the Configured Environment in Oracle RAC
  • 6.2 Understanding Operating System Privileges Groups
  • 6.3 Understanding Time Zone Settings on Cluster Nodes
  • 6.4 Understanding the Server Parameter File for Oracle RAC
  • 6.5 Multiple Oracle Home Directories on Windows
    • 6.5.1 Changing the Current Setting for Oracle Home
  • 6.6 About Pluggable Databases in Oracle RAC
  • 6.7 Database Components Created Using Database Configuration Assistant
    • 6.7.1 About Tablespaces and Data Files
    • 6.7.2 About Control Files
    • 6.7.3 About Online Redo Log Files
  • 6.8 About Managing Undo Tablespaces in Oracle RAC
  • 6.9 About Initialization Parameter Files
  • 6.10 Oracle Net Services Configuration for Oracle RAC Databases
    • 6.10.1 Database Services for an Oracle RAC Database
    • 6.10.2 Naming Methods and Connect Descriptors
    • 6.10.3 Easy Connect Naming Method
    • 6.10.4 Understanding SCANs
      • 6.10.4.1 About the SCAN
      • 6.10.4.2 About SCAN VIP Addresses
      • 6.10.4.3 About SCAN Listeners
    • 6.10.5 About Connecting to an Oracle RAC Database Using SCANs
    • 6.10.6 About Listener Configuration for an Oracle RAC Database
    • 6.10.7 About Service Registration for an Oracle RAC Database
    • 6.10.8 How Database Connections are Created When Using SCANs
  • 6.11 Performance Features of Oracle Net Services and Oracle RAC
    • 6.11.1 Load Balancing of Connections to Oracle RAC Databases
    • 6.11.2 Connection Failover for Oracle RAC Databases
    • 6.11.3 Shared Server Configuration for an Oracle RAC Database
  • 6.12 Oracle Net Services Configuration Files and Parameters
    • 6.12.1 Database Initialization Parameters for Database Service Registration
    • 6.12.2 Net Service Names and the tnsnames.ora File
    • 6.12.3 Net Service Names Created by DBCA
      • 6.12.3.1 Net Service Names for Database Connections
      • 6.12.3.2 Net Service Names for Instance Connections
    • 6.12.4 Listener Configuration and the listener.ora File
      • 6.12.4.1 Local Listener for an Oracle RAC Database
      • 6.12.4.2 Remote Listeners for an Oracle RAC Database
      • 6.12.4.3 Managing Multiple Listeners for an Oracle RAC Database
      • 6.12.4.4 How Oracle Database Uses the Listener File (listener.ora)
    • 6.12.5 Net Services Profile File (sqlnet.ora)
• 7 Removing Oracle RAC Software
  • 7.1 Overview of Deinstallation Procedures
  • 7.2 About Oracle Deinstallation Options
  • 7.3 Files Deleted by the deinstall Command
  • 7.4 Identifying All Instances On a Cluster
    • 7.4.1 Identifying All Instances On a Cluster Using SRVCTL
    • 7.4.2 Identifying All Instances On a Cluster Using the Windows Services Control Manager
  • 7.5 deinstall Command Reference
  • 7.6 Using the Deinstallation Tool to Remove Oracle RAC
    • 7.6.1 Running the deinstall Command From an Oracle Home
    • 7.6.2 Generating a Response File For Use With the deinstall Command
  • 7.7 Cleaning Up After a Failed Installation
• A Using Scripts or Response Files to Create Oracle RAC Databases
  • A.1 Using DBCA to Generate Installation Scripts for Oracle RAC
  • A.2 About DBCA Noninteractive (Silent) Configuration for Oracle RAC
  • A.3 Using DBCA Commands for Noninteractive (Silent) Configuration of Oracle RAC
  • A.4 How Response Files Work
    • A.4.1 Deciding to Use Silent Mode or Response File Mode
    • A.4.2 Creating a Database Using Oracle ASM for Database Files in Silent Mode
    • A.4.3 Using Response Files
  • A.5 Preparing Response Files
    • A.5.1 About Response File Templates
    • A.5.2 Editing a Response File Template
    • A.5.3 Recording Response Files
  • A.6 Running Oracle Universal Installer Using a Response File
  • A.7 Running Configuration Assistants Using Response Files
    • A.7.1 Silent Mode of Database Configuration Assistant
    • A.7.2 Running Database Configuration Assistant in Response File Mode
    • A.7.3 Running Oracle Net Configuration Assistant Using Response Files
  • A.8 Postinstallation Configuration Using Response File Created During Installation
    • A.8.1 Using the Installation Response File for Postinstallation Configuration
    • A.8.2 Running Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File
  • A.9 Postinstallation Configuration Using the ConfigToolAllCommands Script
    • A.9.1 About the Postinstallation Configuration File
    • A.9.2 Creating a Password Response File
    • A.9.3 Performing Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File
• B Directory Structure for Oracle RAC Environments
  • B.1 Understanding the Oracle RAC Directory Structure
  • B.2 Directory Structures for Oracle RAC
• C Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle RAC Database
  • C.1 Backing Up the Oracle RAC Database
  • C.2 Using CVU to Validate Readiness for Oracle RAC Upgrades
    • C.2.1 Using the CVU Database Upgrade Validation Command Options
    • C.2.2 Example of Verifying System Upgrade Readiness for Oracle RAC Infrastructure
    • C.2.3 Verifying System Readiness for Oracle Database Upgrades
• D Configuring Read-Only Oracle Homes
  • D.1 Evolution of Oracle Homes
    • D.1.1 About Read-Only Oracle Homes
    • D.1.2 About Oracle Base Homes
    • D.1.3 About Oracle Base Config
  • D.2 Enabling a Read-Only Oracle Home
  • D.3 Determining if an Oracle Home is Read-Only
  • D.4 File Path and Directory Changes in Read-Only Oracle Homes
• E Managing Oracle Database Port Numbers
  • E.1 About Managing Ports
  • E.2 About Viewing Port Numbers and Access URLS
  • E.3 Setting UDP and TCP Dynamic Port Range for Oracle RAC Installations
  • E.4 Port Numbers and Protocols of Oracle Components
  • E.5 Changing the Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Port
• Index