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

Online Node Addition and Deletion...................................................................................128
Managing the Shared Storage...............................................................................................129
Making LVM Volume Groups Shareable..............................................................................129
Making a Volume Group Unshareable ..........................................................................130
Activating an LVM Volume Group in Shared Mode...............................................................130
Deactivating a Shared Volume Group ...........................................................................130
Making Offline Changes to Shared Volume Groups.............................................................130
Adding Additional Shared LVM Volume Groups ..................................................................131
Changing the CVM Storage Configuration .........................................................................132
Removing Serviceguard Extension for RAC from a System..........................................................132
Monitoring Hardware ...........................................................................................................132
Using Event Monitoring Service..........................................................................................133
Using EMS Hardware Monitors..........................................................................................133
Adding Disk Hardware .........................................................................................................133
Replacing Disks....................................................................................................................134
Replacing a Mechanism in a Disk Array Configured with LVM...............................................134
Replacing a Mechanism in an HA Enclosure Configured with Exclusive LVM............................134
Online Replacement of a Mechanism in an HA Enclosure Configured with Shared LVM (SLVM)...135
Offline Replacement of a Mechanism in an HA Enclosure Configured with Shared LVM (SLVM)...136
Replacing a Lock Disk.......................................................................................................136
Online Hardware Maintenance with Inline SCSI Terminator ..................................................136
Replacement of I/O Cards.....................................................................................................138
Replacement of LAN Cards....................................................................................................138
Offline Replacement.........................................................................................................138
Online Replacement.........................................................................................................138
After Replacing the Card..................................................................................................138
Monitoring RAC Instances......................................................................................................139
6 Troubleshooting......................................................................................140
A Software Upgrades ...............................................................................141
Rolling Software Upgrades....................................................................................................141
Steps for Rolling Upgrades ...............................................................................................142
Keeping Kernels Consistent...........................................................................................142
Example of Rolling Upgrade .............................................................................................142
Step 1. ......................................................................................................................143
Step 2. .....................................................................................................................144
Step 3. .....................................................................................................................144
Step 4. .....................................................................................................................145
Step 5. .....................................................................................................................145
Limitations of Rolling Upgrades .........................................................................................146
Non-Rolling Software Upgrades.............................................................................................147
Limitations of Non-Rolling Upgrades ..................................................................................147
Migrating a SGeRAC Cluster with Cold Install.....................................................................147
Upgrade Using DRD.............................................................................................................148
Rolling Upgrade Using DRD..............................................................................................148
Non-Rolling Upgrade Using DRD.......................................................................................148
Restrictions for DRD Upgrades...........................................................................................148
B Blank Planning Worksheets......................................................................149
LVM Volume Group and Physical Volume Worksheet.................................................................149
Oracle Logical Volume Worksheet..........................................................................................149
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