Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 3rd Edition, May 2006

Serviceguard Configuration for Oracle 9i RAC
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters
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Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters
NOTE Some versions of Oracle RAC requires installation of additional software.
Refer to your version of Oracle for specific requirements.
Before installing the Oracle Real Application Cluster software, make
sure the cluster is running. Login as the oracle user on one node and
then use the Oracle installer to install Oracle software and to build the
correct Oracle runtime executables. When the executables are installed
to a cluster file system, the Oracle installer has an option to install the
executables once. When executables are installed to a local file system on
each node, the Oracle installer copies the executables to the other nodes
in the cluster.
For details on Oracle installation, refer to the Oracle installation
documentation. As part of this installation, the Oracle installer installs
the executables and optionally, the Oracle installer can build an Oracle
demo database on the primary node. The demo database files can be
either the character (raw) device files names for the logical volumes
created earlier, or the database can reside on a cluster file system.
For a demo database on SLVM or CVM, create logical volumes as shown
in Table 3-2, “Required Oracle File Names for Demo Database,” earlier in
this chapter. As the installer prompts for the database file names, use
the pathnames of the raw logical volumes instead of using the defaults.
NOTE If you do not wish to install the demo database, select install software
only.