Owner's Manual

iConfiguring Storage and Networking

for Oracle 11g RAC

This section provides the following information about network and storage

configuration:

• Configuring the public and private networks

• Verifying the storage configuration

• Configuring the shared storage for Oracle Clusterware and the Oracle

Database

NOTE: Oracle RAC 11g R1 is a complex database configuration that requires an

ordered list of procedures. To configure networking and storage in a minimal amount

of time, perform the following procedures in order.

Configuring the Public and Private Networks

NOTE: Each node requires a unique public and private internet protocol (IP) address

and an additional public IP address to serve as the virtual IP address for the client

connections and connection failover. The virtual IP address must belong to the same

subnet as the public IP address. All public IP addresses, including the virtual

IP address, should be registered with the domain naming system (DNS). If a DNS server

is not available, IP addresses have to be registered in the hosts file on all cluster nodes.

Depending on the number of NIC ports available, configure the public and

private interfaces as shown in Table 5.

Table 5. NIC Port Assignments

NIC Port Three Ports Available Four Ports Available

1 Public IP and virtual IP Public IP

2 Private IP (NIC team) Private IP (NIC team)

3 Private IP (NIC team) Private IP (NIC team)

4 NA Virtual IP