Grid Infrastructure Installation and Upgrade Guide

1 Oracle grid InfrastructureGrid Infrastructure Installation and UpgradeGuide19c for LinuxE96272-18 August 2021 Oracle grid Infrastructure grid Infrastructure Installation and Upgrade Guide , 19c for LinuxE96272-18 Copyright 2013, 2021, Oracle and/or its Author: Subhash ChandraContributing Authors: Aparna Kamath, Douglas Williams, Mark Bauer, Prakash Jashnani, Janet SternContributors: Markus Michalewicz, Aneesh Khandelwal, James Williams, Ian Cookson, Rajesh Dasari, PallaviKamath, Donald Graves, Jonathan Creighton, Angad Gokakkar, Srinivas Poovala, Prasad Bagal, BalajiPagadala, Neha Avasthy, Mark Scardina, Hanlin Chien, Anil Nair, Apparsamy Perumal, Samarjeet Tomar,Akshay Shah, Kevin Jernigan, Eric Belden, Mark Fuller, Barbara Glover, Saar Maoz, Binoy SukumaranThis software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions onuse and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws.

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6 Oracle grid Infrastructure1-112 Checking and Configuring Server Hardware for Oracle GridInfrastructureLogging In to a Remote System Using X Window System2-1 Checking Server Hardware and Memory Configuration2-23 Automatically Configuring Oracle Linux with Oracle DatabasePreinstallation RPMA bout the Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM3-1 Overview of Oracle Linux Configuration with Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM3-2 Installing the Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM Using ULN3-3 Installing Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM During an Oracle Linux Installation3-5 Installing Oracle Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM Using the Oracle Linux yum Server3-6iiiConfigure Additional Operating System Features3-74 Configuring Operating Systems for Oracle grid Infrastructure on LinuxGuidelines for Linux Operating System Installation4-2 Completing a Minimal or Default Linux Installation4-2 About Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel4-3 About the Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM4-3 Restrictions for HugePages and Transparent HugePages Configurations4-4 Reviewing Operating System and Software Upgrade best Practices4-5 General Upgrade best Practices4-5 New Server Operating System Upgrade Option4-6 Upgrading Operating System for an Oracle grid Infrastructure Server4-7 Oracle ASM Upgrade Notifications4-8 Reviewing Operating System Security Common Practices4-8 About Installation Fixup Scripts4-9 About Operating System Requirements4-9 Using Oracle RPM Checker on IBM.

7 Linux on System z4-10 Operating System Requirements for x86-64 Linux Platforms 4-11 General Guidelines for Operating System Packages4-11 Supported Oracle Linux 8 Distributions for x86-644-12 Supported Oracle Linux 7 Distributions for x86-644-14 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distributions for x86-644-17 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Distributions for x86-644-19 Supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Distributions for x86-644-21 Supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Distributions for x86-644-23 Installing Operating System Packages4-25 Operating System Requirements for IBM: Linux on System z4-26 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z4-26 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z4-27 Supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Distributions for IBM.

8 Linux on System z4-28 Additional Drivers and Software Packages for Linux4-29 Installing PAM for Login Authentication on Linux4-30 Installation Requirements for OCFS24-30 About OCFS2 and Shared Storage4-30 Installing OCFS24-31 Installation Requirements for ODBC and LDAP4-31 About ODBC Drivers and Oracle Database4-31 Installing ODBC Drivers for Linux x86-644-31 About LDAP and Oracle Plug-ins4-32 Installing the LDAP Package4-32ivInstalling Oracle Messaging Gateway4-32 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for Linux4-32 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for Linux x86-644-33 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for IBM: Linux onSystem z4-33 Installation Requirements for Web Browsers4-34 Checking Kernel and Package Requirements for Linux4-34 Setting Clock Source for VMs on Linux x86-644-35 Installing the cvuqdisk RPM for Linux4-35 Reviewing HugePages Memory Allocation4-36 Disabling Transparent HugePages4-37 Enabling the Name Service Cache Daemon4-38 Verifying the Disk I/O Scheduler on Linux4-39 Using Automatic SSH Configuration During Installation4-40 Setting Network Time Protocol for Cluster Time Synchronization4-405 Configuring Networks for Oracle grid Infrastructure and Oracle RACA bout Oracle grid Infrastructure Network Configuration Options5-2 Understanding Network Addresses5-2 About the Public IP Address5-3 About the Private IP Address5-3 About the

9 Virtual IP Address5-4 About the grid Naming Service (GNS) Virtual IP Address5-4 About the SCAN5-5 About Shared SCAN5-6 Network Interface Hardware Minimum Requirements5-6 Private IP Interface Configuration Requirements5-7 IPv4 and IPv6 Protocol Requirements5-8 Oracle grid Infrastructure IP Name and Address Requirements5-9 About Oracle grid Infrastructure Name Resolution Options5-10 Cluster Name and SCAN Requirements5-11IP Name and Address Requirements For grid Naming Service (GNS)5-11IP Name and Address Requirements For Multi-Cluster GNS5-12 About Multi-Cluster GNS Networks5-12 Configuring GNS Server Clusters5-13 Configuring GNS Client Clusters5-13 Creating and Using a GNS Client Data File5-13IP Name and Address Requirements for Manual Configuration of Cluster5-14 Confirming the DNS Configuration for SCAN5-15 Broadcast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle grid Infrastructure5-16 Multicast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle grid Infrastructure5-16vDomain Delegation to grid Naming Service5-16 Choosing a Subdomain Name for Use with grid Naming Service5-17 Configuring DNS for Cluster Domain Delegation to grid Naming Service5-17 Configuration Requirements for Oracle Flex Clusters5-18 Understanding Oracle Flex

10 Clusters5-19 About Oracle Flex ASM Clusters Networks5-19 General Requirements for Oracle Flex Cluster Configuration5-20 Oracle Flex Cluster DHCP-Assigned Virtual IP (VIP) Addresses5-21 Oracle Flex Cluster Manually-Assigned Addresses5-21 grid Naming Service Cluster Configuration Example5-22 Manual IP Address Configuration Example5-23 Network Interface Configuration Options5-24 Multiple Private Interconnects and Oracle Linux5-256 Configuring Users, Groups and Environments for Oracle GridInfrastructure and Oracle DatabaseCreating Groups, Users and Paths for Oracle grid Infrastructure6-1 Determining If an Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exist6-2 Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist6-3 About Oracle Installation Owner Accounts6-3 Restrictions for Oracle Software Installation Owners6-4 Identifying an Oracle Software Owner User Account6-5 About the Oracle Base Directory for the grid User6-6 About the Oracle Home Directory for Oracle grid Infrastructure Software6-6 About Creating the Oracle Home and Oracle Base Directory6-7 Oracle Installations with Standard and Job Role Separation Groups and Users6-8 About Oracle Installations with Job Role Separation6-9 Standard Oracle Database Groups for Datab