HP Data Protector 6.0 SUN Solaris10 (SPARC) Oracle10gR2 RAC (On RAW VxVM Volumes) with HP XP ZDB Proxy-Copy Method with IR

HP OpenView Storage Data Protector
1 INTRODUCTION
This white paper is intended to provide supplementary information for installation and configuring
HP OpenView Storage Data protector with Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g Release 2 running
Solaris10 operating system for Proxy-Copy Zero Downtime Backup (ZDB) in HP StorageWorks Disk
Array XP environments.
There are variety of choices with regards to the installation and set-up of Oracle Real Application
Clusters 10g on the Solaris10 platform. User has the possibility to deploy their RAC cluster only with
Oracle Clusterware. In this case Oracle interacts with Sun Cluster to coordinate cluster membership
information. For storage management, user has the choice to use Oracle ASM, Cluster File Systems
or RAW Devices.
In this White Paper RAC 10g is configured with VxVM RAW volumes (with cluster feature enabled)
for RAC.
2 Overview of Oracle 10g RAC R2 Example Environment
The following chapter will explain the environment setup. It will explain the different hardware and
software components used for this integration.
The example environment is based on a 2 node cluster, node1 referred to as 'amazon' with local
database instance “RAC1“ and node2 as 'congo' with local database instance “RAC2“. The virtual
host name is 'atlantic' and global database name is “RACD”.
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