Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Real Application Clusters with SLVM/RAW on HP-UX Installation Cookbook, September 2010

Executive Summary
Oracle Real Application Cluster 11g Release 2 can be configured with various storage options. The
storage option SLVM/RAW is one of them. This storage option provides many benefits to users. It
provides multipathing; extra level of protection against inadvertent overwrites from nodes
inside/outside the cluster, fast database recovery time and fast cluster reformation time.
This white paper describes Oracle Real Application Cluster 11g Release 2 and SGeRAC A.11.19
installation with SLVM/RAW on HP UX 11.31 HAOE.
Introduction
This white paper is intended to provide help installing Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release
2 and SGeRAC A.11.19 with SLVM/RAW on HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11.31 HAOE
operating system. Oracle RAC 11gR2 GUI does not provide the option to install RAC with
SLVM/RAW. You will have to follow some manual steps to install RAC 11gR2 with SLVM/RAW
storage options. This white paper describes all those required steps.
Within this cookbook, all scenarios are based on a 2 node cluster—node 1 referred to as “bike” and
node 2 as “cycle”.
Figure 1: Example of two node cluster for all scenarios in this whitepaper.
In this white paper, we use the following logic:
bike# <c
ommand> = command needs to be issued as root from node bike
cycle$ <command> = command needs to be issued as oracle from node cycle
bike/cycle # <command> = command needs to be issued as root from both nodes bike + cycle.
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