Owner's Manual

Contents 5
6 Configuring Storage and
Networking for Oracle
®
RAC
Database (10gR2/11gR1)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuring the Public and Private Networks . . . . . 33
Configuring and Teaming the
Private Network
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Configuring NIC Teaming for
Your Private Network Adapters
. . . . . . . . . . 35
Configuring the IP Addresses for
Your Public and Private Network Adapters
. . . . 37
Installing the Host-Based Software
Needed for Storage
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Verifying the Storage Assignment to the Nodes
. . . . 40
Installing Multi-Path Software for Storage
. . . . . . . 40
Installing PowerPath
®
for
Dell/EMC Systems.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Installing Multi-Path driver software
for MD3000/MD3000i
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Installing Multi-Path driver software
for EqualLogic iSCSI Storage Array
. . . . . . . . 41
Verifying Multi-Path Driver Functionality
. . . . . . 41
Preparing the Disks for Oracle Clusterware,
Database, and Backup
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Enabling the Automount Option for
the Shared Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Preparing the OCR and Voting Disks
for Clusterware
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43