Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters

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5 XiRelated Documents .. xiiConventions .. xii1 Introduction to Oracle Database 2 Day + real Application Clusters GuideAbout This 1-1 What This Guide Is 1-1 Related 1-1 Oracle real Application Clusters Documentation 1-2 Useful Oracle RAC Guides .. 1-2 About Oracle Clusterware and Oracle real Application 1-2 About Automatic Storage 1-3 Tools for Installing, Configuring, and Managing Oracle RAC .. 1-4 Installing Oracle RAC on Different Operating 1-52 Preparing Your cluster About Checking 2-1 About Checking Hardware 2-1 About Identifying Network Requirements .. 2-3 Verifying Operating System and Software Requirements .. 2-4 Preparing the 2-5 Configuring Operating System Users and Groups .. 2-5 Configuring Secure 2-7 Generating RSA and DSA Keys .. 2-8 Adding the Keys to an Authorized Key 2-9 Configuring SSH User Equivalency.

6 2-10 About Configuring the Operating System Environment .. 2-11 Configuring the 2-12 Verifying the Network Configuration .. 2-14 Preparing the Operating System and 2-16 About Setting the Time on Both Nodes .. 2-16 About Configuring Kernel Parameters .. 2-16 About Performing Platform-Specific Configuration 2-17ivConfiguring Installation Directories and Shared Storage .. 2-17 About Deciding on a Shared Storage Solution .. 2-18 Configuring Block Devices for Oracle Clusterware 2-19 Creating a Udev Permissions File for Oracle Clusterware .. 2-22 About Choosing an Oracle Base 2-23 About Choosing an Oracle Clusterware Home Directory .. 2-233 Installing and Configuring Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RACP reparing the Oracle Media Installation 3-1 Installing Oracle Clusterware 11g.

7 3-2 Configuring the Operating System Environment .. 3-2 Verifying the Configuration Using the cluster Verification Utility .. 3-3 Using Oracle Universal Installer to Install Oracle Clusterware .. 3-4 Completing the Oracle Clusterware 3-10 Configuring Automatic Storage Management in an ASM Home 3-11 Verifying Your ASM Installation .. 3-17 Installing the Oracle Database Software and Creating a cluster Database .. 3-17 Verifying Your Oracle RAC Database 3-25 Configuring the Operating System Environment for Database Management .. 3-26 Updating the oratab File .. 3-26 Reconfiguring the User Shell Profile .. 3-27 Performing Postinstallation 3-28 About Verifying the Oracle Clusterware 3-28 About Backing Up the Voting Disk .. 3-28 About Downloading and Installing RDBMS Patches .. 3-29 Verifying Oracle Enterprise Manager Operations.

8 3-29 Recommended Postinstallation 3-29 About Backing Up the Script .. 3-30 About Configuring User 3-30 Converting an Oracle Database to an Oracle RAC 3-30 Preparing for Database Conversion .. 3-30 Overview of the Database Conversion Process Using Grid 3-31 Overview of the Database Conversion Process Using 3-324 Administering Database Instances and cluster Databases About Oracle RAC Database 4-1 Oracle RAC and Enterprise 4-2 Overview of Oracle real Application Clusters : Oracle By Example 4-2 Starting and Stopping Oracle RAC Databases and Database 4-3 About Oracle RAC Initialization 4-4 Configuring Initialization Parameters for an Oracle RAC Database .. 4-4 Parameters that Must Have Identical Settings on All Instances .. 4-5 Parameters that Must Have Unique Settings on All Instances.

9 4-5 Parameters that Should Have Identical Settings on All 4-6 Editing Initialization Parameter Settings for an Oracle RAC Database .. 4-7 Modifying the Initialization Parameter for Oracle RAC Using the Current Tab .. 4-7 Modifying the Initialization Parameter for Oracle RAC Using the SPFile Tab .. 4-8vExample: Modifying the OPEN_CURSORS Parameter .. 4-8 About Modifying the SERVICE_NAMES Parameter for Oracle RAC .. 4-9 About the Server Parameter File for Oracle real Application 4-9 About Administering Storage in Oracle 4-9 About Automatic Undo Management in Oracle 4-10 About Automatic Storage Management in Oracle RAC .. 4-10 About ASM Components in Oracle RAC .. 4-10 About Disk Group Configurations for ASM in Oracle RAC .. 4-10 About Standalone ASM Disk Group Management .. 4-11 About ASM Instance and Disk Group Management Using Enterprise Manager.

10 4-11 About Administering Redo Logs in Oracle RAC .. 4-11 About Redo Log Groups and Redo Threads in Oracle RAC Databases .. 4-12 Using Enterprise Manager to View and Create Online Redo Log Files .. 4-12 Exploring Your cluster Database : Oracle By Example 4-135 Administering Oracle Clusterware ComponentsAbout Oracle 5-1 About Backing Up and Recovering Voting 5-2 Backing Up Voting Disks .. 5-2 Recovering Voting 5-2 Adding and Removing Voting 5-3 About Backing Up and Recovering the Oracle cluster 5-3 Viewing Available OCR Backups .. 5-3 Backing Up the OCR .. 5-4 About Recovering the OCR .. 5-4 Checking the Status of the 5-4 Restoring the OCR from Automatically Generated OCR Backups .. 5-5 Recovering the OCR from an OCR Export File .. 5-5 About Changing the Oracle cluster Registry 5-6 Adding an OCR 5-7 Replacing an OCR.