Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 6th Edition, April 2008

Preface

This Sixth edition of the manual includes information for Serviceguard Extension for

RAC (Oracle Real Application Cluster) Version A.11.18 on HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3,

Veritas Cluster File System (CFS)/Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) from Symantec

version 5.0, Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring feature, SGeRAC Toolkit, and

Logical Volume Manager version 2 (See “Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM”

(page 55)).

This guide covers how to use the Serviceguard Extension for RAC (Oracle Real

Application Cluster) to configure Serviceguard clusters for use with Oracle Real

Application Cluster software on HP High Availability clusters running the HP-UX

operating system. The contents are as follows:

• Chapter 1, “Introduction,” describes a Serviceguard cluster and provides a roadmap

for using this guide. This chapter should be used as a supplement to Chapters 1–3

of the Managing Serviceguard user’s guide.

• Chapter 2, “Serviceguard Configuration for Oracle 10g RAC,” describes the

additional steps you need to take to use Serviceguard with Real Application

Clusters when configuring Oracle 10g RAC. This chapter should be used as a

supplement to Chapters 4–6 of the Managing Serviceguard user’s guide.

• Chapter 3, “Serviceguard Configuration for Oracle 9i RAC,” describes the additional

steps you need to take to use Serviceguard with Real Application Clusters when

configuring Oracle 9i RAC. This chapter should be used as a supplement to

Chapters 4–6 of the Managing Serviceguard user’s guide.

• Chapter 4, “Maintenance and Troubleshooting,” describes tools and techniques

necessary for ongoing cluster operation. This chapter should be used as a

supplement to Chapters 7–8 of the Managing Serviceguard user’s guide.

• Appendix A, “Software Upgrades,” describes rolling, non-rolling and migration

with cold install upgrade procedures for SGeRAC clusters.

• Appendix B, “Blank Planning Worksheets,” contains planning worksheets for

LVM, VxVM, and Oracle Logical Volume.

Related Publications

The following documents contain additional useful information:

• Clusters for High Availability: a Primer of HP Solutions. Hewlett-Packard Professional

Books: Prentice Hall PTR, 2001 (ISBN 0-13-089355-2)

• Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.18 Release Notes (T1907-90041)

• HP Serviceguard Version A.11.18 Release Notes (B3935-90119)

• Managing Serviceguard Fifthteenth Edition (B3936-90122)

• HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 for HP-UX 11i v3

Release Notes (T2771-90043)