Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 10th Edition, April 2011

Mirroring and Resilvering...............................................................................................28
Shared Storage Activation..............................................................................................28
Listener.............................................................................................................................28
Automated Startup and Shutdown...................................................................................28
Manual Startup and Shutdown........................................................................................29
Network Monitoring...........................................................................................................29
SGeRAC Heartbeat Network..........................................................................................29
CSS Heartbeat Network.................................................................................................29
RAC Cluster Interconnect................................................................................................29
Public Client Access.......................................................................................................29
RAC Instances........................................................................................................................29
Automated Startup and Shutdown........................................................................................29
Manual Startup and Shutdown............................................................................................30
Shared Storage.................................................................................................................30
Network Planning for Cluster Communication.............................................................................30
Planning Storage for Oracle Cluster Software.............................................................................31
Planning Storage for Oracle 10g/11gR1/11gR2 RAC..................................................................31
Volume Planning with SLVM................................................................................................31
Storage Planning with CFS..................................................................................................32
Volume Planning with CVM.................................................................................................32
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC .................................................................................33
Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and Cluster File System (CFS)...........................................34
Veritas Storage Management Products.......................................................................................34
About Multipathing............................................................................................................34
About Device Special Files.......................................................................................................34
About Cluster-wide Device Special Files (cDSFs).....................................................................35
Configuration File Parameters...................................................................................................36
Cluster Communication Network Monitoring..............................................................................36
Single Network for Cluster Communications..........................................................................36
Alternate Configuration—Fast Reconfiguration with Low Node Member Timeout.........................37
Alternate Configuration—Multiple RAC Databases.................................................................39
Guidelines for Changing Cluster Parameters..........................................................................40
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is used........................................................40
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is not Used..................................................40
Limitations of Cluster Communication Network Monitor...........................................................41
Cluster Interconnect Monitoring Restrictions.......................................................................41
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM.................................................................................41
Building Volume Groups for RAC on Mirrored Disks...............................................................42
Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes .................................................................42
Selecting Disks for the Volume Group..........................................................................42
Creating Physical Volumes.........................................................................................42
Creating a Volume Group with PVG-Strict Mirroring......................................................42
Building Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC with LVM Commands.............................................43
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Redo Logs and Control Files..............................43
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Data Files.......................................................44
Creating RAC Volume Groups on Disk Arrays .......................................................................45
Creating Logical Volumes for RAC on Disk Arrays..................................................................46
Oracle Demo Database Files ..............................................................................................46
Displaying the Logical Volume Infrastructure ..............................................................................47
Exporting the Logical Volume Infrastructure ...........................................................................47
Exporting with LVM Commands ......................................................................................47
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters.................................................................................48
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CFS.................................................................................48
Creating a SGeRAC Cluster with CFS for Oracle 10g, 11gR1, or 11gR2....................................49
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager................................................................................49
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