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

Audience

This white paper intended for readers who wish to install/configure Oracle Real Application Clusters

11g Release 2 with SLVM/RAW on HP-UX.

General System Installation Requirements

Hardware Requirements

• At least 4 GB of physical RAM. Use the following command to verify the amount of memory

installed on your system:

# /usr/contrib/bin/machinfo | grep -i Memory or # /usr/sbin/dmesg |

grep "Physical:"

• Swap space equivalent to the multiple of the available RAM, indicated as follows:

Available RAM Swap Space Required

Between 4 GB and 8 GB 2 times the size of RAM

Between 8 GB and 32 GB 1.5 times the size of RAM

More than 32 GB 32 GB

Use the following command to determine the amount of swap space installed on your system:

# /usr/sbin/swapinfo -a

• 1 GB of disk space in the /tmp directory. To determine the amount of disk space available in the

/tmp directory, enter the following command:

# bdf /tmp

• The Oracle Clusterware (Grid) home requires 5 GB of disk space.

• 8.2 GB of disk space for the Oracle database binaries. You can determine the amount of free disk

space on the system using

# bdf

• At least 5.5 GB for Oracle Clusterware and Database files.

• Operating System: HP-UX 11.31 Itanium. To determine if you have a 64-bit configuration enter the

following command:

# /bin/getconf KERNEL_BITS

• Asnyc I/O is required for Oracle on RAW devices and configured on HP-UX 11.31 by default. You

can check if you have the following file:

# ll /dev/async

# crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 101 0x000000 Jun 9 09:38 /dev/async

Use the following privileges to establish access to /dev/async leaving the protection at the default.

# getprivgrp

global privileges: CHOWN

dba: RTPRIO MLOCK RTSCHED

oinstall: RTPRIO MLOCK RTSCHED