Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 10th Edition, April 2013

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 10gR2/11gR1/11gR2 RAC..............................................................31
Volume Planning with SLVM................................................................................................32
Storage Planning with CFS..................................................................................................32
Volume Planning with CVM.................................................................................................32
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC .................................................................................34
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..........................................................................37
Alternate Configuration—Fast Reconfiguration with Low Node Member Timeout.........................38
Alternate Configuration—Multiple RAC Databases.................................................................39
Guidelines for Changing Cluster Parameters..........................................................................40
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is used........................................................41
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is not Used..................................................41
Limitations of Cluster Communication Network Monitor...........................................................41
Cluster Interconnect Monitoring Restrictions.......................................................................42
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM.................................................................................42
Building Volume Groups for RAC on Mirrored Disks...............................................................42
Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes .................................................................42
Selecting Disks for the Volume Group..........................................................................43
Creating Physical Volumes.........................................................................................43
Creating a Volume Group with PVG-Strict Mirroring......................................................43
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 ......................................................................................48
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters.................................................................................48
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CFS.................................................................................49
Creating an SGeRAC Cluster with CFS for Oracle 10gR2, 11gR1, or 11gR2...............................49
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager................................................................................49
Deleting CFS from the Cluster..............................................................................................52
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CVM................................................................................53
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager................................................................................54
Using CVM 5.x or later......................................................................................................54
Preparing the Cluster and the System Multi-node Package for use with CVM 5.x or later.........54
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