Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP A.11.00

Configuring the network...............................................................................................197
Configuring the storage device for installing Oracle clusterware........................................198
Setting up CRS OCR and VOTING directories ................................................................198
Installing and configuring Oracle clusterware..................................................................199
Configuring SGeRAC toolkit packages for the site Oracle clusterware sub-cluster.................200
Installing and configuring Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)..........................................200
Creating the RAC database at the local site........................................................................201
Setting up CFS file systems for RAC database data files ...................................................201
Setting up CFS file systems for RAC database flash recovery.............................................202
Creating the RAC database using the Oracle Database Configuration Assistant..................203
Configuring and testing RAC MNP stack at the local disk site ..........................................203
Halting the RAC database on the local disk site..............................................................203
Creating identical RAC database at the remote site .............................................................203
Configuring the replica RAC database...........................................................................204
Configuring the RAC MNP stack at the recovery cluster....................................................205
Halting the RAC database on the recovery cluster............................................................206
Configuring an empty Site Controller package.....................................................................206
Configuring the Site Safety Latch dependencies...................................................................207
Modifying Site Controller to manage RAC MNP stack packages............................................207
Starting the disaster tolerant RAC database in the Metrocluster..............................................208
Configuring client access for Oracle database 10gR2 RAC...................................................208
Configuring SGeRAC cluster interconnect subnet monitoring..................................................209
Configuring and administration restrictions..........................................................................210
Configuring Oracle RAC database with ASM in a SADTA..........................................................210
Setting up replication.......................................................................................................212
Configuring Metrocluster with sites.....................................................................................212
Installing and configuring Oracle clusterware......................................................................212
Configuring SGeRAC toolkit packages for every Oracle clusterware sub-cluster...................212
Installing Oracle RAC software..........................................................................................213
Creating the RAC database with ASM................................................................................213
Configuring the ASM disk group ..................................................................................213
Configuring SGeRAC toolkit packages for the ASM disk group.........................................213
Creating the Oracle RAC database...............................................................................213
Configuring and testing the RAC MNP stack at the Source Disk Site...................................213
Halting the RAC database on the Source Disk Site...........................................................213
Setting up identical RAC database at the target disk site.......................................................214
Configuring the Identical ASM Disk Group at the Target Disk Site......................................214
Configuring the identical RAC database.........................................................................215
Configuring the Site Controller package..............................................................................216
Configuring the Site Safety Latch dependencies...................................................................217
Starting the disaster tolerant Oracle RAC database with ASM in the Metrocluster.....................217
Failure scenarios in Metrocluster for RAC.................................................................................217
Oracle RAC database failure ............................................................................................217
Oracle RAC database instance failure................................................................................218
Oracle RAC database Oracle clusterware daemon failure.....................................................218
Administering Metrocluster for RAC.........................................................................................218
Online addition and deletion of nodes...............................................................................218
Adding nodes online on a primary site where the RAC database is running........................219
Adding nodes online on a remote site where the RAC database is down............................219
Deleting nodes online on the primary site where the RAC database package stack is
running......................................................................................................................219
Deleting nodes online on the site where the RAC database package stack is down..............220
Starting a disaster tolerant Oracle database RAC.................................................................220
Shutting down a disaster tolerant Oracle database RAC.......................................................221
Halting and restarting the RAC database MNP packages.....................................................221
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