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Adding a New Node to a Oracle 11g RAC Cluster 47

Adding a New Node to an Existing

Oracle 11g RAC Cluster

The following sections describe how to add nodes and instances to Oracle

RAC databases on Windows.

Preparing the Node to be Added to a Cluster

Perform the following steps on the node(s) that you want to add to an

existing cluster:

Install and configure the operating system using the

Deployment

CDs.

Configure the networking and fiber channel storage subsystem.

Make sure that you can execute the following command from each of the

existing nodes of your cluster where the host_name is the public network

name of the new node:

NET USE \\host_name\C$

You have the required administrative privileges on each node if the operating

system responds with:

Command completed successfully.

NOTE: If you are using ASM, then make sure that the new nodes can access the

ASM disks with the same permissions as the existing nodes.

NOTE: If you are using Oracle Cluster File Systems, then make sure that the new

nodes can access the cluster file systems in the same way that the other nodes

access them.