Best Practices for SGeRAC and Oracle RAC on HP-UX 11i, March 2009

Document revision history

Date Description

March 2009 Updated for SG/SGeRAC A.11.19

March 2008 Updated document for general Oracle Clusterware and RAC usage

June 2007 Updated recommendation for Oracle Clusterware home and Oracle database home when using CFS

March 2007 Updated document with Cluster interconnect configurations, Cluster interconnect subnet monitoring,

SGeRAC Toolkits, and Extended Distance Cluster

September 2006 Added multiple RAC database configurations.

Updated CFS/CVM configuration

References

HP documentation

All of the following materials can be found on the HP Technical Documentation web site at

http://docs.hp.com.

• HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite

http://docs.hp.com/en/ha.html#HP%20Serviceguard%20Storage%20Management%20Suite

• Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes

http://docs.hp.com/en/ha.html

• Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.19 Release Notes

http://docs.hp.com/en/ha.html

• Managing Serviceguard, Sixteenth Edition, March 2009

http://docs.hp.com/en/ha.html

• Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, Eighth Edition, March 2009

http://docs.hp.com/en/ha.html

• Understanding and Designing Serviceguard Disaster Tolerant Architectures

http://docs.hp.com/en/B7660-90018/B7660-90018.pdf

• Support of Oracle 10g RAC ASM with SGeRAC Whitepaper, January 2008

http://docs.hp.com à High Availability à Serviceguard Extension for Real Application Cluster

• Sample Configuration with SGeRAC and Oracle RAC 11gR1 Whitepaper, March 2009

http://docs.hp.com à High Availability à Serviceguard Extension for Real Application Cluster

• Sample Configuration with SGeRAC and Oracle RAC 10gR2 Whitepaper, March 2009

http://docs.hp.com à High Availability à Serviceguard Extension for Real Application Cluster

• Use of Serviceguard Extension for RAC Toolkit with Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 or later

Whitepaper, March 2009

http://docs.hp.com à High Availability à Serviceguard Extension for Real Application Cluster

Oracle documentation

All of the following materials can be found on the Oracle Technical Documentation web site at

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/database10gr2.html and

http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/homepage.

• Oracle Clusterware Installation Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1) for HP-UX, B28259-05, November

2007

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/install.111/b28259.pdf