Owner's Manual

Contents 3
Contents
1Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Required Documentation for Deploying
the Dell|Oracle 11g Database
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Terminology Used in this Document
. . . . . . . . . . . 8
Getting Help
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Dell Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Oracle Support
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2 Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Choosing the Correct Oracle Installation Media . . . . 9
3 Installing Oracle
®
RAC 11g R1 Using
Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS)
. . . . . 11
Installing Oracle Clusterware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing Oracle 11g Database
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing Oracle 11g R1 Patchset
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Installing Patchset for Oracle 11g Clusterware
. . . 17
Installing Patchset for Oracle 11g Database
. . . . 18
Downloading the Latest Oracle Patches
. . . . . . 19
Configuring the Listener
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Creating the Seed Database
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