Sample Configuration with HP Serviceguard Extension for RAG and Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g release 2 using Cluster File System

Sample configuration prerequisites

In the sample configuration, the following prerequisites apply:

Software

• HP-UX 11i v3 1003 High Availability Operating Environment (HAOE) or later

(Oracle RAC 11g R2 is not supported on HP-UX 11i v2)

• Serviceguard version A.11.19 (SG A.11.19)

• Serviceguard Extension for RAC version A.11.19 (SGeRAC A.11.19)

• HP Serviceguard Management Suites (SG SMS) bundle A.03.00

• Oracle Clusterware (OC) and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g release 2

The following patches should be installed from

http://itresourcecenter.hp.com/

• PHSS_40794 (SG A.11.19 patch) or later

• PHSS_40886 (SGeRAC A.11.19 patch) or later

• PHSS_40228 (SG CFS A.11.19 patch) or later

Note: PHSS_40228 belongs to bundle 7 of SG SMS A.03.00.

See Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide 11gR2 for HP-UX at

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e17211.pdf for information on other

required patches.

Server hardware requirement

• One 2-node cluster for CVM/CFS

Network requirements

• Public—Ethernet with two redundant NICs for primary and standby

– OC requires at least one and up to three IP addresses for Cluster SCAN.

– OC requires one VIP address per node.

– VIPs and SCAN IPs must be currently unused.

– VIPs and SCAN IPs must be resolvable, preferably in DNS.

– HA is provided by SG local LAN failover.

• Private—Ethernet with redundant NICs for primary and standby

– All private cluster communications flow through the private network.

– HA is provided by SG local LAN failover.

– Private IP address and private network name must be configured in /etc/hosts file on each node.

Storage requirements

Each node has internal storage for OC and RAC binaries. OC Home requires 5 GB disk space, and

Oracle RAC Database binary requires 8.2 GB of disk space. In addition, 1 GB of disk space is

required for a

/tmp directory.

Shared storage:

• Primary link:

– /dev/dsk/c4t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0