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Adding a New Node to an Existing Oracle 10g RAC Cluster 35

Adding a New Node to an Existing

Oracle 10g RAC Cluster

This section describes how to add nodes and instances to Oracle

Real

Application Cluster (RAC) databases on Microsoft

Windows Server

x64

operating systems.

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

media.

Configure the networking and fiber channel storage subsystem.

Ensure that you can execute the following command from each node of your

cluster:

NET USE \\host_name\C$

Where host_name is the public network name of the new node.

If you have the required administrative privileges on each node, the operating

system displays the following message:

Command completed successfully.

NOTE: If you are using Automatic Storage Management (ASM), then ensure 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 System (OCFS), then ensure that the new

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

access them.

Now the node(s) is ready to be added to an existing cluster.