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20 Deployment Guide
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4 For a Fibre Channel cluster, on the first node, create one partition on each of the other
two external storage devices with
fdisk :
a Ty p e fdisk /dev/emcpowerx and create a primary partition for the entire device.
Ty p e
h for help within the fdisk utility.
b Ty p e cat /proc/partitions to verify that the new partition exists.
If you do not observe the new partition, type:
sfdisk -R /dev/<device name>
5 Edit the /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices file and add the following lines for a Fibre Channel cluster:
/dev/raw/ASM1 /dev/emcpowerb1
/dev/raw/ASM2 /dev/emcpowerc1
6
Ty p e service rawdevices restart to restart the Raw Devices Service.
Installing Oracle RAC 10g
This section describes the steps required to install Oracle RAC 10 g , which involves installing CRS
and installing the Oracle Database 10
g software. Dell recommends that you create a seed database
to verify that the cluster works correctly before you deploy it in a production environment.
Installing CRS
1 Log in as root .
2 Ty p e startx to start the X Window System.
3 Open a terminal window and type:
xhost +
4
Mount the Oracle Cluster Ready Services CD.
5 Ty p e :
su - oracle
6
Type the following commands to start the Oracle Universal Installer:
unset ORACLE_HOME
/mnt/cdrom/runInstaller
7
In the Welcome window, click Next .
8 In the Specify File Locations window, verify that the Oracle home path is
/opt/oracle/product/10.1.0/crs_1 and click Next .
9 In the Language Selection window, select a language and click Next .