Installation guide
If you choose to ulize Intel NICs for teaming, perform the following conguraon steps:
1. Install Intel PROSet II (if necessary)
2. Start Intel PROSet II as described in Using PROSet II
3. Run the Teaming Wizard to add adapters to each team.
4. See the PROSet II Help for addional informaon.
Be aware that Oracle 10g requires the user to select the correct network interface during installaon of the database soware. With
mulple adapters, the user must select from several interface names in step 5 under the “Cluster Ready Services Installaon Steps.”
The default adapter names do not provide the user with enough informaon to easily idenfy the public and private adapters. We
suggest renaming the network interface names to indicate there use in the system. For example, public adapter “Local Connecon 1”
should be renamed to “Public” and the private interconnect adapter renamed to “Private”.
Note: This must be done on all nodes in the cluster, and the names must not contain the “.” (period) character. The adapter names
MUST be idencal and the same case.
Verifying that the SAN is Ready for Oracle
Before proceeding further, you should perform some vericaon tests to verify that the cluster hardware is ready for Oracle. The rst
test checks access to all nodes through the Windows OS. It should be performed for both Oracle9i and Oracle10g installaons. To
test, login with a domain administrator account (the Oracle installaon account). From each node, check administrave access to all
other nodes with:
(Assuming C is the install drive.) If you do not get a successful result, you should check your networking and permission sengs
carefully.
An addional test is available for Oracle9i only. To run this test, download Oracle Patch 3483924 from Oracle Metalink. Extract the
les and place them in a WINDRIVE:\\Disk1 staging directory. Next, run the clusterchek.exe command:
Aer the test is completed, check the OraInfoCoord.log le in the TEMP or TMP directory for “ORACLE CLUSTER CHECK WAS
SUCCESSFUL”. If you don’t receive a success message, check your storage and networking components carefully.
For both Oracle9i and Oracle10g, a nal check is provided by the ability to view shared disks from all nodes. If shared disks are not
idencally visible on all nodes, there is a problem with your cluster hardware setup. Conguring shared disks is also necessary as a
pre-installaon step.