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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:
1
Install and configure the operating system using the deployment media.
2 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.